On The Analyst's Neutrality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warren S Poland (0000-0002-0132-4897, 5225 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-299 |
| Publication date | 1984-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/000306518403200203 |
| PMID | 6736544 |
| OpenAlex | W1995906951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 8 |
It is by the application of the principle of neutrality, born of his respect for the essential otherness of the patient, that the analyst focuses the dyadic analytic work in the service of the patient's growing self-analytic capacity. Thus, the general principle of neutrality is distinguished from the technical tactic of abstinence, the latter being a specific function utilized to facilitate and foster analytic regression. Neutrality can be defined as it applies to the major subfunctions of the analyst's work ego. Perception of the patient's intrapsychic processes (both empathically and cognitively) requires a neutrality of appearance on the analyst's part in order to minimize the distortion of the unfolding transference neurosis. Integration and understanding of the patient's communications require mastery and neutralization of the analyst's own internal processes in order to minimize countertransferential distortions. Appropriate interpretive intervention requires neutrality of action, i.e., mastery of impulses related to power, neutralizing them into the service of the analytic work; tact is defined as a specific psychoanalytic function in this regard. Collaborative ignorance is examined as a specific instance of false neutrality. In this an analytic guise serves to mask a countertransferential conflict. Neutrality serves as an overriding technical principle, not an imperative for perfectionism . Factors intrinsic to the analytic process also influence the application of this principle
Epistemology · Function (biology) · Neutrality · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
The seriously ill or dying analyst and the limits of neutrality
On the relational school of psychoanalysis
Barthes, The Neutral, and Our Neutrality
Everyday peace
The effects of a self-analytic exercise on clinical judgment
Commentaries
Commentaries
Commentary on José Bleger’s Theory and practice in psychoanalysis
Neutrality and Curiosity
Neutrality in the Field
The Analyst's Words
The Portal
The Analyst's Knowledge and Authority
Some Vicissitudes of Aggression in the Interpretive Process
Navigating Toward the End and Its Vicissitudes
Spontaneous “Cures”
The analytic state of consciousness as a form of play and a foundational transference
Questioning the Psychoanalyst's Authority
Toward a Definition of Psychoanalytic Neutrality
Interpretation and Expectation
Countertransference Evolution in Theory and Practice
The Real Person of the Analyst and his Role in the Process of “Psychoanalytic Cure
Finding the Neutral Position
Suggestion and Veridicality in the Reconstruction of Sexual Trauma, or can a Bait of Suggestion Catch a Carp of Falsehood
A Different Perspective On the Therapeutic Process
Psychic Change in Analysis
Future and Potentiality in the Psychoanalytic Process
The Multiple Meanings of Neutrality
Neutrality, Interpretation, and Therapeutic Intent
Countertransference and the Theory of Technique
Our Analytic Heritage
Neutrality, Abstinence, and the Therapeutic Alliance
Concurrent Individual and Individual-In-A-Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Impasses in Psychoanalysis
The so-called rule of abstinence revisited
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2022 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |