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Robert Alan Glick1, Steven P Roose

  • 1Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA. rag4@columbia.edu

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|October 3, 2006
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Psychotropic medication side effects can trigger analyst anxiety, potentially disrupting psychoanalysis. Effective combined treatment requires analysts to understand both analytic and pharmacological models.

Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Increasing use of psychotropic medications alongside psychoanalysis presents unique clinical challenges.
  • Patient complaints about medication side effects are common in combined treatments.
  • These complaints can impact the psychoanalytic process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the countertransference challenges faced by psychoanalysts when patients report medication side effects.
  • To explore how these side effects can lead to the abandonment of transference analysis.
  • To identify strategies for maintaining effective psychoanalytic treatment in combined settings.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of clinical scenarios involving psychotropic medication and psychoanalysis.

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  • Examination of specific countertransference anxieties and fantasies experienced by analysts.
  • Discussion of the reasons for analysts suspending curiosity and openness.
  • Main Results:

    • Medication side effects can evoke specific countertransference anxieties in analysts.
    • These anxieties may lead analysts to abandon transference analysis.
    • Analysts may suspend their natural curiosity and openness due to these challenges.

    Conclusions:

    • Effective psychoanalytic treatment in combined settings requires analysts to be "bilingual."
    • Analysts must integrate both analytic and pharmacological perspectives.
    • Maintaining openness and curiosity is crucial for successful outcomes.