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  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Psychoanalytic Theory

Background:

  • Clinical interactions involve conscious and unconscious communication.
  • Patients express ideas and feelings through verbal and non-verbal cues.
  • These expressions relate to personal desires, relationships, and transference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose that unconscious fantasy overlaps with the concept of emotion schema.
  • To highlight emotion schemas as emotionally infused mental representations.
  • To discuss the role of priming phenomena in the therapeutic dyad.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical exploration of emotion schemas and unconscious fantasy.
  • Analysis of Wilma Bucci's theory on emotion schemas.
  • Discussion of priming effects within the therapeutic relationship.

Main Results:

  • Emotion schemas are derived from conscious and unconscious subsymbolic and symbolic processes.
  • The term 'emotion schema' can represent 'emotionally infused mental representation'.
  • Unconscious fantasy is proposed to overlap significantly with emotion schema.

Conclusions:

  • Unconscious fantasy can function as a prime for therapeutic partners.
  • Understanding emotion schemas and unconscious fantasy enhances therapeutic insight.
  • Priming phenomena underscore the interconnectedness within the therapeutic dyad.