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Progress in Psychotherapy: The Perspective of Control-Mastery Theory
Martina Rodomonti, Eleonora Fiorenza, Francesco Gazzillo
1Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome.
Psychodynamic Psychiatry
|February 26, 2021
Summary
Patients actively collaborate in psychotherapy, unconsciously working to overcome challenges and achieve healing. Control-Mastery Theory (CMT) reframes the therapeutic relationship as a partnership focused on adaptive goals and mastering trauma.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychotherapy Research
- Psychoanalytic Theory
Background:
- Classical psychoanalysis viewed patient resistance as opposing therapy.
- Evolving perspectives recognize patient collaboration, both conscious and unconscious.
- The concept of resistance has been modified over time.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore novel understandings of psychotherapy progress.
- To reframe the therapeutic relationship through Control-Mastery Theory (CMT).
- To highlight the patient's proactive role in treatment.
Main Methods:
- Theoretical exploration and conceptual reframing.
- Analysis of the patient's contribution to the therapeutic alliance.
- Application of Control-Mastery Theory principles.
Main Results:
- Patients are motivated by adaptive goals and trauma mastery.
- Patients actively test and disprove pathogenic beliefs in therapy.
- Patients unconsciously coach therapists to facilitate healing.
Conclusions:
- Psychotherapy progress involves patient's unconscious proactive engagement.
- Control-Mastery Theory offers a framework for understanding patient-therapist collaboration.
- Patients play a vital role in disproving maladaptive patterns and achieving therapeutic goals.
Keywords:
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