PubMed · 482649
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J Cremerius. 1979. [Are there two psychoanalytic techniques?].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/482649/
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The unwitting exposure of the therapist's private life creates an unexpected rupture in the frame and puts both the therapist and the patient off balance. The exposure introduces into the therapy a moment of human sharing of vulnerability that has the potential to enrich the treatment. Clinical vignettes are presented to help therapists anticipate possible exposures and their consequences. The discussion encourages therapists to predict their reactions, obtain needed professional support, and make the most of opportunities for full exploration of patients' material.
In this article, I outline a psychoanalytic perspective on therapeutic impasses based on more recent developments in psychoanalytic therapy and on Winnicott's (1971) work in particular. This perspective suggests that many impasses result from clients' inability to participate in their own experience in a subjectively meaningful and affectively vital way. I argue that, in such cases, the therapeutic task becomes one of helping clients relate to events in a more personal and affectively engaged fashion through a type of therapeutic play in which the boundary between what is real and unreal becomes temporarily ambiguous.
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