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What Makes Therapy PSA?
What Makes Therapy PSA?
November 2, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm, Wyman Classroom
Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2020-21, 1st Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Kelly Lippman, LMHC
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November 2, 2020 — Thinking beyond symptom removal
[38 pages]
Conscious and unconscious purposes and treatment goals
Ticho differentiates life goals (the change a patient wants from therapy) and treatment goals (what psychically needs to happen to free a person to reach their life goals). Vliegen considers the link between the capacity to play with words, metaphor and ideas and therapeutic progress.
Ticho, E.A. (1972). Termination of Psychoanalysis: Treatment Goals, Life Goals. Psychoanal Q., 41:315-333 (excerpts)
Vliegen, N. (2009). Two people playing together: Some thoughts on play, playing, and playfulness in psychoanalytic work. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 64:131-149.
Optional Reading
The Case for Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Scientific Evidence, John Thor Cornelius, MD.
