Deepening the Treatment

Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 2nd Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Donald Schimmel, PhD

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January 10, 2022 — Working with Anger

[47 pages]

Hall, J.S. (1998). Ch7, “Tolerating the Patient’s Rage” in Deepening the Treatment, pp157-178.

Read only pages 157-163 and 171-178. (Skip the clinical example in the middle of the chapter.)

• What is the essence of the test the patient is giving the therapist, with regard to the patient’s rage and anger?  (pp. 163, 172)
• What actions on the part of the therapist constitute passing the test, according to Hall?  (throughout, and pp. 175, 176-177) What actions on our part might result in our not passing the test? (throughout, and pp. 161, 163)
• What are some markers for progress in the treatment, according to Hall?  (pp. 160)
• Note Hall’s formulation of rage as resistance:  what is being resisted, according to her? (p.160)

Maroda, K. (2009). Ch8, “Confrontation and Countertransference Anger: Overcoming the Therapist’s Aversion to Conflict” in Psychodynamic Techniques. NY: Guilford Press. pp179-203.

• According to Maroda, under what circumstance will she directly confront a client’s behavior? (pp. 183-184)
• What is your view of Maroda’s confrontation of Charles on page 190?

Optional Reading

Casement, P.J. (1991). Ch7, “Analytic Holding under Pressure” in Learning from the Patient, NY: Guildford Publications, Inc. pp129-139.