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Enactment as understanding and as misunderstanding.

Arnold Goldberg¹

¹Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA. Docaig@aol.com

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

|November 19, 2002

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Enactment in psychoanalytic therapy is a common occurrence within patient understanding. Recognizing and interpreting enactments within the analytic dialogue is key for therapeutic progress.

Area of Science:

Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy

Background:

Enactment is a pervasive phenomenon in psychoanalytic therapy.
Understanding patient dynamics involves recognizing enactments as sequential events.

Observation:

Enactments are often disavowed or singled out for scrutiny by the analyst.
These events are not inherently unusual but gain significance through analytic attention.

Findings:

Enactments require interpretation beyond their unconscious origins.
The focus should be on integrating enactments into the ongoing analytic dialogue.

Implications:

This perspective reframes the role of enactment in therapeutic understanding.

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It emphasizes the dialogic and interpretive nature of psychoanalytic work.

Clinicians can enhance patient comprehension by focusing on the inclusion of enactments.