The patient's material as an aid to the disciplined working through of the countertransference and supervision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8971079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vic Sedlak (2 Foxhill Court, Weetwood Lane, Leeds, LS16 5PL, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1487-1500 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/002075703322642449 |
| PMID | 14754478 |
| OpenAlex | W3144490076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
The author argues that the patient's largely unconscious observations of the analyst's functioning are, at times, communicated in the patient's material and that this can impart a sense of clinical relevance to the countertransference. The concept of 'understanding work' is used to provide a psychoanalytical model of this phenomenon. This is illustrated in a clinical case and it is argued that a selective consideration of the patient's material can provide a proper discipline which steers the analyst between the twin dangers of megalomania, on the one hand, and involvement in a symmetrical, self-disclosing relationship, on the other. The author then applies these ideas to supervision and uses them to distinguish psychoanalytic supervision from a practice that also derives from an intersubjective paradigm but which, to the author's mind, is not distinct enough from personal analysis
Clinical supervision · Countertransference · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychoanalytic Therapy · Psychotherapist · Relevance (law · Transference · Unconscious mind · Working through · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory
The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience
Countertransference Past and Present
Dialectical Thinking and Therapeutic Action in the Psychoanalytic Process
Countertransference
The countertransference scene in France
Psychoanalytic Supervision
The Countertransference
The Analyst's Knowledge and Authority
The Perverse Subject of Analysis
The Analyst's pArticipation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |