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H Yerushalmi1

  • 1Hebrew University, Student Counseling Service, Department of Psychology, 10 Reznik Dorms, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel. msyeru@mscc.huji.ac.il

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|April 20, 2001
PubMed
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Psychoanalytic analysts experience multiple self-states, adapting emotionally to patients. This adaptive coping mechanism enhances understanding of patient paradoxes by navigating complementary, even contradictory, analyst self-experiences.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychotherapy

Background:

  • Analyst's subjective experience is crucial in psychoanalytic literature.
  • Investigated are analyst attitudes, fantasies, and emotional responses to patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Describe distinct and contradictory self-experiences in analysts.
  • Explore these as adaptive coping mechanisms.
  • Understand how analyst self-states influence therapeutic interaction.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of psychoanalytic literature.
  • Conceptual framework exploring analyst self-states.
  • Case vignette examples illustrating adaptive shifts in analyst stance.

Main Results:

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  • Analysts exhibit multiple, shifting self-states mirroring patient's.
  • Analyst choice of self-state influences therapeutic stance (e.g., warmth vs. boundaries).
  • Capacity to integrate paradoxical self-states deepens patient understanding.

Conclusions:

  • Analyst's fluid self-experience is an adaptive mechanism.
  • Moving between complementary self-states enhances insight into patient paradoxes.
  • Internal dialogue among analyst's dissociated experiences facilitates patient's therapeutic dialogue.