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How analytic is psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

R M Richard-Jodoin1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, McGill University.

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
|January 1, 1991
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy differs from psychoanalysis by focusing on conscious understanding of the present and past, rather than uncovering the unconscious. This approach integrates conscious self-aspects using developmental psychology and object relations theory.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Ambiguities exist in differentiating psychoanalytic psychotherapy from psychoanalysis.
  • This distinction is often based on differing therapeutic goals and methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify the distinctions between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
  • To define psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a reality-oriented process focused on conscious understanding.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapy practices.
  • Examination of the role of psychoanalytic knowledge within psychotherapy.

Main Results:

  • Psychoanalytic psychotherapy does not aim to uncover the unconscious, unlike psychoanalysis.

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  • Psychotherapy focuses on understanding the present in continuity with a consciously accessible past.
  • It promotes integration of conscious aspects of the self and object.

    • Conclusions:

    • Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is distinct from psychoanalysis due to its goals and methods.
    • Its framework is supported by developmental psychology, object relations theory, and self psychology.
    • Key analytic aspects include guiding knowledge, an analytic attitude, and respect for the patient's observing ego.