The Analyst's Attitude Toward Pharmacotherapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8333140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen D Purcell (San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, 2116 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94115, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 913-934 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003065108323376 |
| PMID | 18802137 |
| OpenAlex | W2038446029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
The increased acceptance of medication in psychoanalysis has occurred with too little consideration of possible complications. The potentially adverse psychological effects and disintegrative aspects of this important technical modification require further examination. While the use of phenomenologically defined diagnostic criteria provides valuable guidance to the clinician, the decision to include pharmacotherapy in a psychoanalysis must be understood also as a transference-countertransference enactment. The analyst's attitude toward pharmacotherapy is an essential element in some defensive and gratifying enactments, resistances that can interfere with psychoanalytic processes. Clinical material is presented illustrating narcissistic and perverse resistances that might be facilitated by analysts' attitudes toward pharmacotherapy, attitudes often tacitly communicated in decisions to use combined treatment
Countertransference · Element (criminal law) · Pharmacotherapy · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Psychological Testing and Assessment · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2015 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |