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Deepening the Treatment
December 13, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Wyman Classroom
Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 2nd Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Donald Schimmel, PhD
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December 13, 2021 — Enactment, Relationality and Self-Disclosure
[40 pages]
I have attached a handout on varieties of self-disclosure. Please give it a quick read; it’s intended as way to “prime the pump” with regard to our discussion on self-disclosure in the clinical setting.
Please feel free to use the study questions and handouts in whatever way you find most helpful. Our intention in providing them is to highlight what we think are the most salient parts of the readings, and allow you to formulate questions for things that might seem unclear.
Maroda, K.J. (1998). Enactment: When the Patient’s and Analyst’s Pasts Converge. Psychoanal. Psychol., 15(4):517-535.
- What are some essential elements of the definition of enactments? (p. 519)
- What is the primary danger of enactment Maroda focuses on? (p. 522)
- According to Maroda, what is the primary goal for the therapeutic use of enactment? (p. 530)
- According to Maroda, what actions on the part of the therapist are most effective, when the patient has stimulated emotions in the therapist that replicate what other significant people feel or have felt toward the patient? (p. 531)
- What does Maroda do if a patient observes, and she believes, that she has “started” an enactment? (p. 534)
Wachtel, P. (2008), Ch11, ”Confusions about Self-Disclosure” in Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy, pp245-265
- How do you respond to a patient when he or she asks you where you went on vacation? What if the patient asks, “Did you have a good time?” or “Did you go with your family?” (p. 250 & 257)
- In discussing therapist disclosure Wachtel says that mistakes can be made by either disclosing or not disclosing. In light of this, what is his recommendation for how the therapist/analyst should proceed? (p. 250 last paragraph).
- How do you feel about disclosure of the therapist’s outside life? Have you ever disclosed something about your outside life to a patient? Upon reflection, did this prove productive/destructive?