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J Cremerius

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[High frequency long-term analysis and psychoanalytic practice. Utopia and reality].

On the basis of the prognostic study of psychotherapeutic treatment in the Federal Republic and of the evaluation of more than 1000 applications for insurance benefits submitted in the years from 1973 to 1983, it is suggested that high-frequency long-term analysis is the exception rather than the rule and that it is carried on almost exclusively by a small group of "privileged" therapists. The author asks what this implies for the definition of psychoanalysis and for daily treatment practice. Are therapists being trained for a kind of treatment that they will rarely or never practice? The author urges resumption of the discussion of theory and technique of psychoanalysis in which these questions will be considered.

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[Stratum-specific difficulties in the use of psychoanalysis (author's transl)].

Beginning with the observation that in spite of the opportunities available, members of the working classes are seldom treated with psychoanalytic therapy, the reason for this was investigated. For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic. The following factors are isolated: an extremely strict superego; and upbringing extraordinarily antagonistic instinct and phantasy in early childhood which does not allow certain instinctive impluse to develop for fear of punishment; certain interhuman interactions between mother and infant are not experienced at all or only as an emotional action without words. The results are presented.

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