Dreams and change processes in an ex-prostitute under relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Ferenczian and relational views

Bibliographic Data

ID20480914
AuthorsAlejandro Ávila, Alejandro Ávila Espada (0000-0003-4821-4211), Rosa Domínguez (0009-0009-0831-231X)
Year2014
Volume23
Issue1
Pages23-29
Publication date2014-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Forum of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0803-706X • E-ISSN: 1651-2324
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0803706x.2012.732241
OpenAlexW1987837214
LanguageEN
References cited12

This paper explores the change processes that took place in a woman, an ex-prostitute, in the context of psychotherapeutic treatment over a period of over three years. The treatment took place within a relational psychotherapeutic setting influenced by the ideas formulated by Sándor Ferenczi regarding trauma, as well as by his intense involvement with and commitment to his patients, as expressed in his Clinical Diary of 1932 (Ferenczi, 1988). Zoe, the current patient, was a woman born in Latin America who emigrated to Spain at the age of 28 and became trapped, for nearly a decade, in a mesh of prostitution networks. She eventually entered regular psychotherapeutic treatment at the age of 39. Her change process is an example of the mutual influence between the factors of resilience that characterized her and the opportunity for co-creation that the treatment signifies. The marks of the intense traumatic burden of Zoe's history and the rays of sunlight and hope that she is currently experiencing become intermingled in the dreams evoked and brought to the treatment setting. Zoe's capacity for resilience and the potential for founding self-object relations, ethically implied, that therapists can offer construct a scenario that brings back to life the essence of Ferenczi from 1932

Archaeology · Object relations theory · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychological resilience · Psychotherapist · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychology and Mental Health · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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