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Psychotherapeutic routes to structural change

A H Appelbaum1

  • 1New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY 10605.

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
|January 1, 1994
PubMed
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Psychoanalytic interpretation

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Psychoanalytic theory posits that psychic structure changes result from interpretation during therapy.
  • Normal personality development involves spontaneous psychic changes.
  • Parental behaviors during child development share similarities with supportive psychotherapy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the parallels between spontaneous developmental changes in psychic structure and therapeutic interventions.
  • To identify common features between parental support and psychotherapy techniques.
  • To understand how supportive elements influence psychological growth.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology observations.
  • Identification of key parental behaviors in normal development.
  • Analysis of 'supportive' features in psychotherapy.

Main Results:

  • Psychic structure changes observed in psychoanalysis mirror those in normal development.
  • Parental behaviors, such as optimizing anxiety and fostering self-agency, align with supportive psychotherapy.
  • Supportive interventions enhance learning states, self-perception, relationships, and defenses.

Conclusions:

  • Therapeutic interpretation's effects on psychic structure are paralleled in natural development.
  • Supportive parenting and psychotherapy share core strategies for psychological growth.
  • Optimizing anxiety, self-agency, relationships, and defenses are crucial for development and therapy.

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