How To Play With Patients Who Would Rather Remain Remote
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8335809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley J Coen (390 West End Avenue #1H, New York, NY 10024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 811-834 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/00030651050530030601 |
| PMID | 16187635 |
| OpenAlex | W2165090165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 30 |
Playful technique with negativistic, schizoid patients is described and further explained. They are seen as closing their mind, imagination, needs, and feelings to protect themselves against the terrifying dangers of human relatedness (vulnerability, need, hurt, loss, fusion, destruction). The analyst, while respecting the schizoid patient's need for protection, affirmation, and validation, seeks creative ways of engaging the patient more closely. Playful technique with schizoid patients combines the analyst's sensitive, playful attitude with an invitation to playful action as an experiment with new feelings, longings, hopes, and expectations. Playful engagement is one technique for attempting to engage patients not now open to verbal interpretation. To succeed with such patients, the analyst needs to connect with the core of their protectiveness and thereby come to enjoy their defensive powers, tolerate their need of the analyst, and not feel insulted. The analyst's light, playful approach to these patients' life-and-death terrors of hating and loving aims to show them that they have grossly exaggerated the powers of their hatred and their love
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Computer security · Feeling · Hatred · Interpretation (philosophy) · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Vulnerability (computing) · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Psychic Retreats
Psychoanalytic dialogues
Vicissitudes of being, knowing and experiencing in the therapeutic situation
The Analyst’s Use of Humor
Playing and Working Through
Interpretation and Containment
Varieties Of Negative Therapeutic Reaction And Problems Of Technique
Notes On The Noninterpretive Elements In The Psychoanalytic Situation And Process
Classics Revisited
Identity Maintenance in the Affectively Distant Patient
A Specific Peculiarity Of Acting Out
The Thrall of the Negative and How to Analyze it
Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Preadolescent Drive Organization
Dread of Surrender to Resourceless Dependence in the Analytic Situation
The Mirror and the Mask
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |