The therapeutic alliance in brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy: A drive–conflict perspective.

Group Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Difficult to Treat Adolescents: Supporting the Therapist and the Therapeutic Alliance

Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

10.2174/2210676611303030006 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 252-259

Author(s):

Veronique Delvenne ◽

Katy Bogliatto ◽

Anne Englert ◽

Michel Croisant ◽

Nicole Minazio

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Alliance ◽

Group Supervision ◽

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Safeguarding the Therapeutic Alliance: Managing Disaffiliation in the Course of Work With Psychotherapeutic Projects

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.596972 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Aurora Guxholli ◽

Liisa Voutilainen ◽

Anssi Peräkylä

Keyword(s):

Therapeutic Alliance ◽

Conversation Analysis ◽

Therapeutic Process ◽

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽

Central Concept ◽

Process And Outcome ◽

The Moment ◽

The Relationship

Therapeutic alliance is a central concept in psychotherapeutic work. The relationship between the therapist and the patient plays an important role in the therapeutic process and outcome. In this article, we investigate how therapists work with disaffiliation resulting from enduring disagreement while maintaining an orientation to the psychotherapeutic project at hand. Data come from a total of 18 sessions of two dyads undergoing psychoanalytic psychotherapy and is analyzed with conversation analysis. We found that collaborative moves deployed amidst enduring disagreement can assist the therapist in furthering the disagreement as part of the ongoing psychotherapeutic project. Relying on their collaborative format, therapists utilize collaborative moves to temporarily mend the disaffiliation without necessarily changing their position and re-affiliating with the patient. We show how the relation between the therapist and the patient gets transformed in the moment-by-moment work accomplished in the psychotherapeutic talk.

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Rorschach-CS Scores of Six Groups of Patients

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000039 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 24-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Caspar C. Berghout ◽

Jolien Zevalkink ◽

Abraham N. J. Pieters ◽

Gregory J. Meyer

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Care Organizations ◽

Total Sample ◽

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Treatment Groups ◽

Treatment Type ◽

Psychotherapy Groups ◽

Cross Sectional Design

In this study we used a quasiexperimental, cross-sectional design with six cohorts differing in phase of treatment (pretreatment, posttreatment, 2-year posttreatment) and treatment type (psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy) and investigated scores on 39 Rorschach-CS variables. The total sample consisted of 176 participants from four mental health care organizations in The Netherlands. We first examined pretreatment differences between patients entering psychoanalysis and patients entering psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The two treatment groups did not seem to differ substantially before treatment, with the exception of the level of ideational problems. Next, we studied the outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy by comparing the Rorschach-CS scores of the six groups of patients. In general, we found significant differences between pretreatment and posttreatment on a relatively small number of Rorschach-CS variables. More pre/post differences were found between the psychoanalytic psychotherapy groups than between the psychoanalysis groups. More research is needed to examine whether analyzing clusters of variables might reveal other results.

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