Analyzability

The Effect of Frequency and Duration on Psychoanalytic Outcome: A Moment in Time

“…To my way of thinking this is a movement away from technique (instrumentation) toward who the analyst is and how this affects the analytic dyad. It seems clear that the person of the analyst is very much part of how he/she uses psychoanalytic concepts and technique (Frosch, 2006;Wilson, 2003).…”

The culture of psychoanalysis and the concept of analyzability.

“…Freud's idiosyncratic organization of wishes and defenses led to a view of the repetition compulsion as a manifestation of the death instinct and an ultimate obstacle to successful treatment because patients' repetition of their early dependency needs made it too difficult for them to separate from the analyst (cf. Frosch, 2006). I think that Freud fell into a trap that he warned us about in a short but important paper "On Psycho-Analysis": scientific arguments can support emotional resistances (1950c/1913, pp.…”

“…When we move away from a more idealized way of doing things we enter an area where so called tried and true psychoanalytic concepts such as interpretation or resistance can have multiple context - dependent meanings (Sandler, 1983). A rigid adherence to one meaning for example, the standard or idealized meaning, can reflect “theory driven countertransference” (Frosch, 2006). This subjective distortion of the analytic process can play a major role in shaping our ideas about analyzability.…”