Discussion of "Visions of the Future: The Analyst's Expectations and Their Impact on the Analytic Process" by Kenneth Winarick

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Kenneth Winarick's paper, 'Visions of the Future: The Analyst's Expectations and Their Impact on the Analytic Process,' helps analysts remain aware of the impact their expressed judgments may have upon both patients and the analytic process. A psychoanalyst can express judgements that further the analytic process and foster therapeutic intent while still retaining a neutral stance. Analysts should avoid subjective expressions that arise from either their professional ambitions or their personal values. Analysts' expectations can lead to special difficulties when analyzing children and psychoanalysis students.

Criticism and interpretation, Winarick, Kenneth

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Visions of the future: the analyst's expectations and their impact on the analytic process

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Psychoanalysts increasingly recognize their inability to maintain strict neutrality during the psychoanalytic process, and realize that their own expectations for their patients can serve a therapeutic purpose. An analyst's judgements, if managed correctly, can stimulate the analysis. Allowing the patients to retain their autonomy under such circumstances still remains a problem, however. Analysts can protect their patients' autonomy by keeping their interpretations as clinical and theoretical as possible, and by concentrating on the dynamics and variety of their patients' struggles.

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Visions of the future: the analyst's expectations and their impact on the analytic process

Article Abstract:

Kenneth Winarick suggested that the therapist should be aware of expectations and the conflict with analytic neutrality as an ideal, at a meeting of the Assn for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis on May 9, 1996, which focused on the effect of the analyst's expectations on the therapeutic process. Treatment goals should be guided by clinical observation and theory, which can promote expectations based on the potential of the patient. Roger Rahtz, the discussant, basically concurred with the position of Winarick.

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