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Self Creation - Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible (Paperback, New)
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Self Creation - Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible (Paperback, New)
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Insight and "Change." The problematic relationship between these
two concepts, to which the reality of psychoanalytic patients who
fully understand maladaptive patterns without being able to change
them attests, has dogged psychoanalysis for a century. Building on
the integrative object relations model set for in "Transcending the
Self" (1999), Frank Summers turns to Winnicott's notion of
"potential space" in order to elaborate a fresh clinical approach
for transforming insight into new ways of being and relating. For
Summers, understanding occurs within transference space, but the
latter must be translated into potential space if insight is to
give rise to change in the world outside the consulting room.
Within potential space, Summers holds, the analyst's task shifts
from understanding the present to aiding and abetting the patient
in creating a new future. This means that the analyst must draw on
her hard-won understanding of the patient to construct a vision of
who the patient can become. Lasting therapeutic change grows out of
the analyst's and patient's collaboration in developing new
possibilities of being that draw on the patient's affective
predispositions and buried aspects of self.
In the second half of the book, Summers applies this model of
therapeutic action to common clinical syndromes revolving around
depression, narcissistic injuries, somatic symptoms, and
internalized bad objects. Here we find vivid documentation of
specific clinical strategies in which the therapeutic use of
potential space gives rise to new ways of being and relating which,
in turn, anchor the creation of a new sense of self.
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