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Middle Phase
April 19, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Back Classroom
Third Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2023-24, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD
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April 19, 2024 — Finding the potential for change and connection through multiple theories
[31 pages]
Teicholtz argues for the use of multiple theories to provide a broad perspective and to allow the analyst to engage in a relationship with the patient that promotes growth and empathy: “the same theory not only looks different as it is practiced from one analyst to the next, but also even looks different as the same analyst practices it from patient to patient.” (49) Her case studies exemplify “…an organic system that brings together and makes sense of what have hitherto been put forth as competing viewpoints. …With empathy as a guide, the field of action and the quality of engagement are left open for the patient’s and the analyst’s coconstruction.” (70).
Teicholz, J.G. (2006) Qualities of Engagement and the Analyst’s Theory. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 1:47-77.
