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N Treurniet

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PubMed1997

On an ethic of psychoanalytic technique.

The puristic aspect of the classical triad of technique--abstinence, anonymity, and neutrality--is evaluated vis-à-vis the influence of the patient's and the analyst's value systems on the psychoanalytic transaction. In the last decade an increasingly different valuation of affects, regression, and enactment has changed the meaning of this technical triad. Re-evaluation of enactment in the countertransference has been particularly striking in calling for a re-evaluation of our ethic of technique, resulting in the construction of seven other qualities to be added to the classical technical triad.

Ethics, Professional↗
PubMed1996

[The ethics of psychoanalytic technique].

The ethic of psychoanalytic technique which goes back to Freud and emphasizes the importance of anonymity, abstinence, neutrality and the central role of interpretation is subjected to a critical examination. The author traces the changes that have taken place since Freud and proposes a new ethic of psychoanalytic technique. Proceeding from the theory of object relations, Treurniet stresses the symmetrical relationship between analyst and analysand permitting both to assume a "meta-position" in order to reflect on the analysis material. The author further suggests that, beyond the projections of the analysand, the analyst should be open to his own subjectivity, as this openness is the key to the essential feature of analytic procedure, the enactment of countertransference. Finally, Treurniet reformulates his advocacy of a non-intrusive, affirmative attitude on the part of the analyst, a spontaneous willingness to "fall into the analysand's trap", an ability to oscillate between acting-out and introspection, to live out countertransference involuntarily and finally to incorporate the non-ideal into his conscience. These rules of technique must be controlled not only by the conscience and the countertransference of the analyst, but also--apart from intervision and consultation with collegues--by the analysand himself, whose opinion of the analytic situation the analyst should ask for.

Countertransference↗
PubMed1994

[Murderous sense of guilt].

The author provides a treatment report on the psychoanalysis of a juvenile murderer, the focus being on the unconscious determinants of the crime. To obviate the danger of a folie à deux the analyst was observed in his efforts by four experienced clinicians-two men and two women who turned in regular progress commentaries on the course the treatment was taking. Work with the analysand centered around the question whether and how the crime could be "explained" or at least made susceptible of explanation. Treurniet's gripping case history-result of a scientific exploration work-is a demonstration of what the clinical practice of psychoanalysis can in fact achieve on such difficult terrain as penal correction and resocialization (in the framework of the Dutch Mesdag Clinic).

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PubMed1993

What is psychoanalysis now?

Firstly, Freud's classical statement that every treatment that takes into account the phenomena of transference and resistance deserves the designation psychoanalysis is critically examined in a current, post-classical context. The confusion as a consequence of the fact that two different concepts of transference are often used indiscriminately is elucidated. Likewise, the dynamic conditions of two types of resistance--the classical type, as a result of internal conflict, and the interactional type, having to do with empathic failure and countertransference--are disentangled and related to current ideas on two types of conflict, convergent and divergent. This is technically reflected in the understanding of two types of therapeutic action: a nonverbal, object-relational factor as distinguishable from the effect of insight and interpretation. Finally, the dialectics of insight and relation are theoretically clarified through the clinical concepts of background and foreground, which are clinically bound to the concrete psychoanalytical situation and form a tool to distinguish the two types of transference, resistance and conflict.

Defense Mechanisms↗
PubMed1983

Psychoanalysis and self psychology: a metapsychological essay with a clinical illustration.

This paper is an attempt to evaluate critically some theoretical and clinical consequences of the psychoanalytic psychology of the self in its broad, supraordinate position. From this either-or position, advocated by Kohut and his followers, self psychology corrodes some of the most central explanatory concepts of psychoanalysis--conflict, transference, and resistance. In an extensive case illustration, I have tried to show the conceptual and technical impoverishment of the self-psychological views with respect to the concepts of organization in conflict, in defense, and in development, and with respect to the role of aggression and to the concepts of transference and resistance. These consequences of the supraordinate self-psychological viewpoint are related to its overt attack on metapsychology, which is linked to an epistemological fallacy as a consequence of the exclusive use of empathy and introspection with grave consequences for our explanatory power, i.e., a fundamental confusion between the realms of content and of function. This also implies an obstacle in the systematic study of self-deception and a threat to psychoanalysis defined as the study of human behavior considered from the viewpoint of conflict. Finally, an attempt is made to integrate the views of Kohut with those of Winnicott and of classical metapsychology.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

On the relation between the concepts of self and ego in Kohut's psychology of the self.

The concept of self is connected with its counterpart in the concepts of objective, subjective and transitional reality. The potential space of the Self is shown to be restricted rather than enhanced by an overemphasis on the role of empathy. This overemphasis is then related to narcissistic problems in the analyst himself. Self-psychology turns back the clock as it splits instead of integrates its relation with psychoanalysis, reducing so-called "classical analysis" to rigid conflict psychology as opposed to self-psychology, which claims the most central functions of the ego thereby confiscating the third episode in the development of the ego concept in Freud's work. Kohut's description of the transitional process in the psychoanalytic situation predominantly in terms of only one of its constituents, the empathic immersion, is considered to be related to his position vis-à-vis the drives. Using only experiential, as opposed to observational, categories he cannot but arrive at the conclusion that drive intensity is not the cause of central pathology but its result. This creates an imbalance in the clinical view that not only narcissistic mortification indeed produces drive manifestations but on the other hand intensive drive impulses also may produce a severe narcissistic mortification. An attempt is made to find theoretical conceptualizations preserving drive psychology as well as self-psychology by differentiating between a function and its content, i.e. the product of that function, the representation. The interdependence in the "working relation" of self and ego, of subjective experiencing and objective functioning, of our sense of freedom and our conviction of determinism is clarified. The seeming contradictions and conceptual confusion might also be related to an insufficient distinction between our two basic modes of perceiving the world, diacritic and coenaesthetic perception.

Aggression↗