Psychoanalytical psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: A long and troubled relationship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8973013
AutoresKenneth Eisold (353 Central Park WNew York, NY 10025USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen86
Número4
Páginas1175-1195
Fecha de publicación2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/8rmn-4eqf-lg1e-jg03
OpenAlexW1496254609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

The extended, inconclusive debate over distinguishing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been muddied by two underlying issues. The scientifi c identity that psychoanalysis claimed, leading it to affi rm that it was more than a treatment modality, was in confl ict with the actual therapeutic mission it assumed. Psychoanalysis was further hampered in those discussion by its internal confl icts over doctrinal purity; deviations for psychotherapeutic ends were vulnerable to the charge of dissidence. More recently, the debate has been clouded by the fact that newer candidates, by and large, can anticipate careers primarily as psychotherapists, driving a wedge between generations within institutes. The course of the debate and the problems encountered in it are affected by the formal relations between the psychoanalytic establishment and the health‐care industry, including government agencies. In the long run, it appears to make little difference whether psychoanalysis is offi cially recognized as a mental‐health treatment, as in Germany, or attempts to maintain its independence, as in the UK. Finally, as the debate appears to be winding down, the fate of dynamic psychotherapy is also in the balance. If in the past psychoanalysis seemed at risk of losing its specifi c identity, today dynamic psychotherapy is in danger as well

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