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Patients reading about themselves: a stimulus to psychoanalytic work.
1Judy_Kantrowitz@hms.harvard.edu
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|May 14, 2005
Summary
Patients reading psychoanalysts' published papers about them is a new therapeutic approach. This study explores clinical examples and implications of using published analytic writing within psychoanalysis.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Clinical Psychology
Background:
- The use of psychoanalysts' published papers about patients within the therapeutic process is an emerging practice.
- Recent literature shows an increasing trend in analysts employing their written work for clinical purposes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present clinical illustrations of psychoanalysts using their published writings with patients.
- To explore the clinical and scientific implications of this novel psychoanalytic technique.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative analysis of interviews with psychoanalysts.
- Selection of analysts who published clinical articles in "Psychoanalytic Dialogues" between 1995 and 2003.
Main Results:
- Detailed clinical vignettes demonstrating how analysts integrate their published work into sessions.
- Insights into the unique dynamics and therapeutic potential of this approach.
Conclusions:
- The integration of published psychoanalytic papers offers a new dimension to the therapeutic work.
- This practice holds significant clinical and scientific implications for the field of psychoanalysis.