The Analyst's Reality

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ID8333271
AuthorsAllan D Rosenblatt (San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, , University of California at San Diego, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume45
Issue2
Pages395-406
Publication date1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651970450021701
PMID9243448
OpenAlexW2099783350
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

Attention is called to ways in which the analyst's subjective experience and judgment of reality, aspects of his or her psychic reality, not only are necessary to the effective conduct of any psychoanalysis but play a positive and useful role. The theoretical framework of ego psychology risks overemphasizing the primacy of the analyst's reality, while self psychology risks discarding it in favor of the patient's psychic reality. Each view has its dangers, and an integration of both should be sought without losing the advantages of either. Although the analyst's view of reality may in some instances be relatively privileged, most often it is valuable as a heuristic device focusing the analyst's attention when a discrepancy appears between the patient's version of reality and that of the analyst. When used in such a manner, it enhances rather than detracts from the analytic, empathic investigation of the patient's reality

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Consensus reality · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Psychic · Reality testing · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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