Hobson, R Peter (2012) On the nature and standing of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 26 (3). pp. 179-198. ISSN 0266-8734

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Abstract

In this paper the author considers how the therapist might listen to the characters talked about by his or her patients. In psychoanalytic therapy the emphasis is on listening to the patient's characters as though they are located in psychic reality and as representatives of the transference relationship, whereas in interpersonal therapy (IPT) the patient's characters are taken as inhabiting the realm of external reality. It is argued that clinical thinking in IPT would be enhanced by taking more account of psychic reality, which will make clearer the quality of external reality in which the patient's characters are located. It is also argued that both therapies share an interest in enabling the patient to find characters which can serve as holograms of previously unexpressed affective experience.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Published online: 12 Sep 2012
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Characters, Interpersonal Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Realms 0f Reality
Subjects:	Psychological Therapies, Psychiatry, Counselling > Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Department/People:	Special Units
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/953

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