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To coerce and be coerced.

Sybil A Ginsburg1, Lawrence S Cohn

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, USA. sginsbu@emory.edu

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|April 17, 2007
PubMed
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Coercive enactments occur when psychoanalytic patients or analysts feel forced or manipulated. Specific clinical situations, like supervision or frame difficulties, increase susceptibility to these dynamics.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Clinical psychology

Background:

  • Coercion involves forcibly influencing others.
  • Core conflicts can heighten feelings of being coerced.

Observation:

  • Specific clinical circumstances can lead to coercive enactments.
  • Psychoanalytic process stages may increase susceptibility.

Findings:

  • Supervision and psychotherapy-to-psychoanalysis conversion are identified as predisposing situations.
  • Analytic frame difficulties and analyst life crises can trigger coercive enactments.

Implications:

  • Understanding coercive enactments is crucial for effective psychoanalytic practice.
  • Addressing these dynamics can improve the therapeutic alliance and outcomes.