The Analyst's Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice Maroda Karen J.
This book examines the analyst's experiences and traits, demonstrating the impact they have on theory-building and technique. Arguing that choice of theory and interventions are unconsciously shaped…
Specifikacia The Analyst's Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice Maroda Karen J.
This book examines the analyst's experiences and traits, demonstrating the impact they have on theory-building and technique. Arguing that choice of theory and interventions are unconsciously shaped by clinicians' early experiences, this book argues for greater self-awareness, self-acceptance and open dialogue as a corrective.Linking the analyst's early childhood experiences to ongoing vulnerabilities reflected in theory and practice, this book favors an approach that focuses on feedback and confrontation, as well as empathic understanding and acceptance. Essential to this task are analysts' motivations for doing treatment and the gratifications they naturally seek. Maroda asserts that an enduring blind spot arises from clinicians' need to deny what they are personally seeking from the analytic process, including the need to rescue and be rescued. She seeks to remove the
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