What Is Effective in Psychoanalytic Therapy : The Move from Interpretation to Relation

Meissner, W. W.

ISBN 10: 0876685726 / ISBN 13: 9780876685723

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 1977

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Title: What Is Effective in Psychoanalytic Therapy ...

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

This book begins with Strachey's statement of the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis representing the classical psychoanalytical technique that prevailed in the 1930s. Then Meissner takes up the shifts in thinking that have subsequently evolved. Today we hold a more relational concept of the therapeutic action based on a developmentally rooted, parent-child model. This places greater emphasis on the vicissitudes of relational involvements than on specific interpretive techniques. Emphasis is given to collaborative efforts between patient and analyist as central to the working of the analytic process. Factors such as empathy, interpretation and positive and negative transference to the therapeutic alliance are explored.

About the Author:

Meissner is the training and supervising analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and university professor of psychoanalysis at Boston College.

Meissner is Professor of Psychoanalysis at Boston College, Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.