Discussion of "On Not Interpreting: The Metaphor of the Baby, Enactment, and Transitional Experience," by Joseph Newirth

Article Abstract:

Joseph Newirth's paper concentrates on the loss of capacity for symbolic experience as a cause of arrested development, disputing S.A. Mitchell's rhetorical strategy. Newirth's paper shows clinical sensitivity and excellent thinking, but he can be faulted for suggesting the analyst withhold interpretive hypotheses. A case is presented in which the therapist discusses matters immediately with the patient rather than postponing interpretation. The acknowledgement of the patient matters more than whether the therapist languages transitional experiences.

Criticism and interpretation, Countertransference (Psychology), Developmental psychology, Symbolic interactionism, Newirth, Joseph

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Intimacy in the psychoanalytic relationship: a preliminary sketch

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Intimacy in psychoanalysis occurs within the highly structured, asymmetrical role system of analyst and patient and serves as a model for intimacy in other roles. Therapeutic intimacy functions beneficially to assist self-realization, provide meaning and confirm the social role system in which it arises. The process enables patients to overcome neurotic distortions that have been blocking their capacity for intimacy in other social roles.

Social role, Psychoanalysis, Intimacy (Psychology), Intimacy, Psychotherapist and patient

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The vigor of metaphor in clinical practice

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Poetics and metaphor may contain useful applications for the clinical therapist. The therapist can find in patients' utterances inner meanings which will help interpret what they are saying on a deeper level by asking questions, framed in the form of metaphor, to elicit more meaningful responses. Types of metaphors include the inferential, orientational, dead, generative, and enactments.

Clinical psychology, Therapist and patient, Metaphor

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