Following old paths to new places – thirdness, mentalization, and the search for a transformational meeting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20480237 |
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| Authors | Per-Einar Binder, Per‐Einar Binder (0000-0003-0867-0386, University of International Business, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 168-176 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Forum of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0803-706X • E-ISSN: 1651-2324 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08037060902815335 |
| OpenAlex | W2015121789 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Both parts of the therapeutic dyad are searching for ways of relating between them that are more flexible and that open up new possibilities for thought and feeling. When therapy succeeds, patients transcend old transference expectations and fears in a meeting with another subject, a meeting with qualities of something essentially new. Here, it is hypothesized that the patient in the transference unconsciously searches for a transformational meeting with another person. Through the interaction that is a result of this search, the patient moves between twoness and thirdness, and thereby enhances his or her mentalizing capacity. A transcript (of recorded material) from an intensive psychoanalytic therapy with a female patient in her early twenties is presented, analyzed, and discussed, focusing on how she made progress in her relational search during a session
Dyad · Feeling · Mentalization · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Transformational leadership · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
| Highly cited | No |
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