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Middle Phase
February 7, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Wyman Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Katherine Weissbourd, PhD
Christopher J. Keats, MD
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February 7, 2020 — Introspection and Empathy
[51 pages]
As Teicholz asks: how can we use our subjectivity in our work, while at the same time keeping our responsibility to help the patient at the forefront of the analytic exchange? And, if patient and analyst are truly equal partners, why should the analyst feel responsibility to protect and provide for the patient in any privileged way? Discuss ‘normative inequality.’ Contrast the views of interpersonalists with the idea in Kohut’s article that ‘the analyst, to the extent that he is a transference figure, is not experienced in the framework of an interpersonal relationship but as a carrier of unconscious endopsychic structures.
49 pages of reading.
Teicholz, J.G. (1998). Chapter 16 Self and Relationship: Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns. Progress in Self Psychology, 14:267-292.
Kohut, H. (1959). Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis—An Examination of the Relationship Between Mode of Observation and Theory. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 7:459-483.
