Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how
interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their
patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only
the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation
through the analytic experience. In so doing, the analyst moves
from the position of an "interpreting observer" to that of an
"active participant and facilitator" whose affective communications
enable the patient to acquire basic self-trust along with
self-knowledge.
Drawing on the current literature on affect, Maroda argues that
psychological change occurs through affect-laden interpersonal
processes. Given that most patients in psychotherapy have problems
with affect management, the completing of cycles of affective
communication between therapist and patient becomes a vitally
important aspect of the therapeutic enterprise. Through emotionally
open responses to their patients and careful use of
patient-prompted self-disclosures, analysts can facilitate affect
regulation responsibly and constructively, with the emphasis always
remaining on the patients' experience.
Moments of mutual surrender - the honest emotional giving over of
patient to analyst and analyst to patient - epitomize the
emotionally intense interpersonal experiences that lead to enduring
intrapsychic change. Maroda's work is profoundly personal. She does
not hesitate to share with the reader how her own personality
affects her thinking and her work. Indeed, she believes her
theoretical and clinical preferences are emblematic of the way in
which the analyst's subjectivity necessarily shapes theory choice
and practice preferences in general. Seduction, Surrender, and
Transfomation is not only a powerful brief for emotional honesty in
the analytic relationship but also a model of the personal openness
that, according to Maroda, psychoanalysis demands of all its
practitioners.
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