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- Title
Interpretation and the Therapeutic Relationship: An Attempt at Integration.
- Authors
Eagle, Morris
- Abstract
The term integrative psychotherapy can have a range of meanings. It can refer to integration between therapeutic approaches grounded in different theoretical frameworks as exemplified in Wachtel's (Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy: toward an integration. Basic Books, New York, ) Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy. Many therapists informally practice this sort of integration when, in response to problems and issues presented by the patient, they intuitively borrow from a variety of approaches in their clinical work. Therapeutic integration can also refer to attempts at integration within a single broad therapeutic approach such as psychoanalytic or psychodynamic. This is the direction I will take in this article. My goal in this paper is to contribute to the possibility of integration among different theoretical approaches within psychoanalysis in a delimited area. The delimited area that I will focus on is the tension between an emphasis on interpretation and insight versus an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship as the primary agent of therapeutic change. Rather than an 'either-or' position, I will show that integrating theories about both aspects of this process leads to a richer, more complex picture of what happens in psychodynamically-informed therapy.
- Subjects
INTEGRATION (Theory of knowledge); MULTIPLE person narrative; ECLECTIC psychotherapy; PSYCHOANALYSIS; BEHAVIOR therapy; PSYCHODYNAMICS
- Publication
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0091-1674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10615-010-0301-6