Exploring theOtherDark Continent: Parallels between Psi Phenomena and the Psychotherapeutic Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psi Phenomena

Images of Aging in the Psychotherapeutic Context

GeroPsych ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Marie Kessler ◽  
Catherine E. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Images Of Aging ◽  
Client Communication

Both psychotherapists and their clients have mental representations of old age and the aging process. In this conceptual review, we draw on available research from gerontology, social and developmental psychology, and communication science to consider how these “images of aging” may affect the psychotherapeutic process with older clients. On the basis of selected empirical findings we hypothesize that such images may affect the pathways to psychotherapy in later life, therapist-client communication, client performance on diagnostic tests as well as how therapists select and apply a therapeutic method. We posit that interventions to help both older clients and therapists to reflect on their own images of aging may increase the likelihood of successful treatment. We conclude by making suggestions for future research.

Computerized rating of the psychotherapeutic process.

Psychotherapy ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle L. Canfield
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapeutic Process

Negative Capability as a Factor of Problem-Solving within the Psychotherapeutic Process

1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Eisen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Negative Capability

It is proposed that negative capability, that is, the capacity for tolerating uncertainty, doubt and not-knowing, is a factor that contributes to a problem-solving approach utilizable in some aspects of the psychotherapeutic process. Negative capability can be demonstrated both in therapists and patients. An analysis of the functions of negative capability within the psychotherapeutic process shows five stages in its utilization. These are the activation of therapist's negative capability; which is followed by observations about the patient's response to his perception of the therapist's negative capability; then the therapist's clarification of the patient's problems contained within the patient's response; followed by a working-through by the patient and therapist of the problems which are demonstrated and clarified; and lastly, a transier to or enhancement of the patient's use of negative capability as a continuing behavioural mode. Some theoretical bases for the concept of negative capability and its application as a factor of problem-solving within the psychotherapeutic process, are proposed. Clinical excerpts from psychotherapeutic work are given to exemplify the stages as defined above.

Levels of Resistance in the Psychotherapeutic Process

Resistance ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 69-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney J. Blatt ◽  
H. Shmuel Erlich
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapeutic Process

scholarly journals The Paranormal Surrounds Us: Psychic Phenomena in Literature, Culture, and Psychoanalysis by Richard Reichbart

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 614-619
Author(s):  
James Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Native American ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Psi Phenomena ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Ted Talks ◽  
Intensive Psychotherapy

The Paranormal Surrounds Us is a tied-together collection of essays by Richard Reichbart, a practicing psychoanalyst whose several strong interests and lifelong love for the mystery of psi, and sense of adventure and ethical sensibility, give the collection several points of focus. In addition to his current analytic practice of many decades, he has also been a student of literature, a playwright, a Yale-trained attorney, and an activist for Native American and African American rights. The book is as scattered as he has been, but it is so full of insights and pleasing prose, that it doesn’t lose much for that. In this time when we prefer our intellectual material in bite-sized chunks, like sparky TED Talks and internet articles, this may feel especially friendly to many. If there is an implicit, underlying focus to the work, it may be implicitly biographical: one curious man’s study of, to paraphrase Freud, the vicissitudes of psi – its expression in our finest literature, in our private and shared unconscious processes, in our different subcultures, in the deepest privacy of intensive psychotherapy, and in the legal and cultural presumptions that implicitly structure our thinking and behavior.  There are three main sections to the book: Psi Phenomena in Western Literature, Psi Phenomena and Psychoanalysis, and Psi Phenomena and Culture.

Kernberg's Object-Relations Theory and the Group Psychotherapy of Psychosis

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F.A. Milders
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psychic Process ◽  
The Individual

The application of object-relations theory to the psychotherapy of severe personality disorders owes much to the writings of Otto Kernberg. According to Kernberg, object-relations theory facilitates analysis of the psychotherapeutic process and the clarification of personality pathology. It is a concept that integrates theories of psychic process in the individual, group process and the organization of the clinical setting, and has found general support among Dutch (group) psychotherapists treating patients with borderline and psychotic disorders. However, the scope of object-relations theory is seldom addressed. When object-relations theory is separated from clinical psychiatry it can be overvalued as a universal explanatory model.

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