A reassessment of Little Hans, his parents, and his castration complex.
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Anxiety, Castration↗
Biomedical subjects
J A Lindon
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Does technique require theory?
In a personal 30-year overview of his analytic career, the author uses extensive case examples to describe how his techniques were influenced first by classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, then Kleinian theory, object relations theory, and self psychology, respectively. The author concludes that satisfactory results can be achieved with any theoretical perspective, providing the therapist has the ability to become attuned to the patient's central affect states. Therapists who can see the patient's point of view can then interpret that understanding so that the patient can experience being understood, often for the first time in life.
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders↗
Treatment techniques in evolution.
In response to Gabbard's paper, "Do We Need Theory?" the author disputes the suggestion that his early therapeutic successes were theory-specific. He also takes issue with the view that "the analyst's personality is a constant," emphasizing instead the continual fluidity of an effective analytic relationship. While agreeing that atheoreticism is itself a theory, the author differentiates between the universal presence of content as defined by formal psychoanalytic metapsychological theory (e.g., primary instinctual envy, the Oedipus complex) and the centrality of affect attunement that illuminates developmental processes. He cautions therapists to guard against believing that they know "objective reality," and he urges them to assume a "know-nothing" position conducive to eliciting each patient's psychic reality.
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders↗