A Motivational Systems Approach to the Clinical Experience

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ID8333019
AuthorsJoseph D Lichtenberg (Dr. Lichtenberg's address: 1616 Eighteenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20009), Allan R Kindler (Dr. Lichtenberg's address: 1616 Eighteenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20009)
Year1994
Volume42
Issue2
Pages405-420
Publication date1994-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306519404200204
PMID8040549
OpenAlexW2128139455
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

A conception of the self and five motivational systems is applied to clinical psychoanalysis. Each motivational system develops in infancy from innate and learned patterns in response to a basic need, and each involves particular affects. Each motivational system contributes patterns from which important transferences evolve. At any given moment, motives derived from one or another system dominate a person's experience, motives from the other system being subsidiary or dormant. We describe the manner in which these concepts contribute to an explanation of foreground-background relations during analysis, and how analysts and analysands construct model scenes to give meaning to information acquired by empathic listening. We conclude with a clinical vignette illustrating the application of these concepts to the patient's transference and the analyst's response in the intersubjective realm of an analytic enactment and verbal exchange

Active listening · Cognitive psychology · Construct (python library) · Informational listening · Meaning (existential) · Psychotherapist · Realm · Reflective listening · Vignette · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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