Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in times of social crisis: The impact on therapeutic relationship.

Discussion on defining therapy factors develops along two lines: one focusing on the interpretation and another focusing on the relationship. Changes in the socio-economic circumstances, cultural particularities, dismissal of institutions, constant negation, lack of boundaries, confusion of roles, various family secrets revealed due to "collapses," major conflicts, violence and aggression filling the individual as part of both the internal and the external reality - all are known risk factors causing the individual to experience trauma either due the nature of the received stimuli/threats or due to the loss of the enabling/supportive environment. Also, this situation affects the analyst's psychic structure as well. The analyst will have to strike a balance between their own internal objects, which under the circumstances activate the analyst's own suppressed conflicts, and the multiple intense projections of the analysand. First of all, the internal struggles taking place in the analyst's psychism regarding their own griefs, frustrations, and conflicts concerning their adjustment to the current reality, as well as individual griefs relating to their narcissistic doubts and the projections of omnipotence they receive. The question is whether the analyst will go through a destabilization process, being overwhelmed by psychic stimuli in multiple levels, or react with "manic defences" resulting, perhaps, in the prevalence of anti-psychoanalytic dynamics on the transference - coun...
Source: Psychiatriki - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatriki Source Type: research