Psychoanalytic Inquiry Volume 32, Issue 1, 2012 Special Issue: Reflections on Psychoanalytic Theory of Technique: Core Concept or Archaic

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Some Reflections on Psychoanalytic Technique: In Need of Core Concepts or an Archaic Ritual? DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2011.553169 David Tuckett* pages 87-108 Available online: 05 Jan 2012 Abstract The psychoanalytic theory of the clinical situation is in increasing disarray, helping clinical psychoanalysis to drift disastrously away from a specific modality toward 'anything goes.' This article aims to discuss the core elements that the analyst's ordinary everyday clinical theory will cover as he works, whether the analysts knows it or not. A framework for discussing and discovering that theory, which I developed with my colleagues in the European Psychoanalytic Federation Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods, is introduced. Five clinical examples showing how different psychoanalysts worked follow. Briefly, I then review 9 core elements that appear to me to divide how contemporary psychoanalysts actually work. Each element raises reasonably precise theoretical questions that are fundamental, but to which answers are often very confused. The core elements of clinical psychoanalysis require much clearer reflection, understanding and discussion, which is what I hope to provoke.

Reflection and comparison: Some final remarks. Ttulo da srie: The new library of psychoanalysis Autores: Tuckett, David, University College London, London, United Kingdom Fonte: Psychoanalysis comparable and incomparable: The evolution of a method to describe and compare psychoanalytic approaches. Basile, Roberto; Birksted-Breen, Dana; Bhm, Tomas; Denis, Paul; Ferro, Antonino; Hinz, Helmut; Jemstedt, Arne; Mariotti, Paola; Schubert, Johan Tuckett, David (Ed.); Instutute of Psychoanalysis, London; pp. 243-261. New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. xix, 298 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-45143-7 (Paperback)

978-0-415-45142-0 (Hardcover) Resumo: Describes the rationale and ongoing development of a six year programme of meetings conducted by the European Psychoanalytic Federation Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods. The meetings were an effort to help analysts identify a core of the psychoanalytic process that is compatible with the variety of theories and techniques that now exists in the international community. The chapter summarizes the kinds of comparisons that the members are beginning to be able to make using the new method. An early attempt to use the method to compare three analysts is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) Data de lanamento: 20090706 Nmero de acesso: 2008-02815-010 Base de dados: PsycINFO