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Freud, transference, and therapeutic action
1New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA. sabend@cyberpsych.org
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
|August 19, 2009
Summary
Freud
Area of Science:
- Psychoanalytic theory and practice.
- Psychodynamic psychology.
- History of psychology.
Background:
- Sigmund Freud's theories on psychoanalysis.
- The concept of transference in psychotherapy.
- Historical development of psychoanalytic techniques.
Purpose of the Study:
- To trace the evolution of Freud's views on transference.
- To examine the role of transference analysis in psychoanalytic therapy.
- To evaluate the significance of reconstruction alongside transference.
Main Methods:
- Historical analysis of Freud's writings.
- Review of psychoanalytic literature.
- Conceptual analysis of therapeutic mechanisms.
Main Results:
- Freud increasingly emphasized transference analysis from 1910.
- Freud acknowledged reconstruction as a therapeutic factor later in his career.
- The author supports the view that transference analysis is crucial but not solely responsible for therapeutic outcomes.
Conclusions:
- Transference analysis is essential but not the exclusive driver of therapeutic change in psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalytic treatment likely involves multiple interacting therapeutic factors.
- Understanding the historical development of these concepts is key to contemporary practice.
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