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M M Gill

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PubMed1991

Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

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PubMed1989

Ego analysis and the relativity of defense: technical implications of the structural theory.

We suggest that it is recognition of the relativity of defense, of the fact that the same content can be either defense or wish, rather than recognition of unconscious defense, that distinguishes the structural from the topographic theory. The structural theory did not simply add to the topographic theory the recognition that defense can be unconscious; it represents a radical shift in the concept of defense and of the relation between defense and wish. Accordingly, ego analysis, as the technical approach generated by the structural theory, is not complementary or preliminary to id analysis, the technical approach generated by the topographic theory. We attempt to demonstrate that the two theories represent antagonistic paradigms, both theoretically and technically. We suggest that "defense before drive," the structural formula for interpretation, made ego syntonicity a crucial determinant in formulating interpretations, and assumed the relativity of defense. Accordingly, the structural revision made possible an equidistant position between defense and wish, reducing reliance on suggestion and establishing interpretive neutrality, which we distinguish from behavioral neutrality.

Defense Mechanisms↗

PubMed1988

Critical reflections on a coding scheme.

We began by reviewing our method for studying the patient's experience of the relationship with the analyst. Among the highlights of the method is the coding of allusions to the transference in associations that are not manifestly about the transference. We went on to describe a modification in our point of view that has occurred since the coding scheme was published in 1982. This change entails greater emphasis upon the value of a certain kind of participation on the part of the analyst, one which invariably includes some degree of re-enactment of neurotic patterns of relatedness. We feel that the process is frequently enriched when it includes both the interactive expression of the tendency towards enactment and its examination. We compared our viewpoint with Weiss & Sampson and the Mount Zion group who seem to promote an ideal in which the analyst does not yield at all to the pressures of the neurotic transference. We concluded with some general reflections on psychoanalytic process research. Central among these is the idea that research hypotheses and methods should continually be revised to take account of the complexity of the process that we know of as practitioners.

Free Association↗

PubMed1979

The analysis of the transference.

Let me summarize. I distinguish between two major different relationships between transference and resistance. One is resistance to awareness of the transference and the other is resistance to resolution of the transference. I argue that the bulk of the analytic work should take place in the transference in the here and now. I detailed Freud's view that the transference should be encouraged to expand within the analytic situation. I suggested that the main technique for doing so, in addition to the analytic setup itself, is the interpretation of resistance to the awareness of transference by searching for the allusions to the transference in the associations not manifestly about the transference; that in making such interpretations one is guided by the connection to the actual analytic situation which every transference includes; that the major work in resolving the transference takes place in the here and now, both by way of examining the relation between the transference and the actuality of the analytic situation from which it takes its point of departure and the new experience which the analysis of the transference inevitably includes; and that, while genetic transference interpretations play a role in resolving the transference, genetic material is likely to appear spontaneously and with relative ease after the resistances have been overcome in the transference in the here and now. Working through remains important, and it, too, takes place primarily in the transference in the here and now.

Awareness↗

PubMed1977