Asking About Ambivalence: A Different Kind of Therapist Neutrality

Fourie, David P.

doi:10.1080/01926187.2010.513900

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“…Both these elements can be identified in the case studied here. Rather than ascribing his symptoms to the likely ambivalence between loyalty to his father and his own need for independence (Fourie, 2007(Fourie, , 2010, exacerbated by the expectations of his new marriage, James's oversimplified explanation was of an inability to switch off from work, something to be rectified through suggestion to the unconscious mind. The hypnotherapist's uncritical acceptance of this explanation formed part of the social construction, in the therapeutic situation, of this view and served to confirm it.…”

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Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Fourie¹

2011

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There seems to be wide acceptance by both professionals and lay people that hypnotic and especially hypnotherapeutic responding is based on the long-standing but still hypothetical dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious minds. In this simplistic view, hypnotic suggestions are considered to bypass consciousness to reach the unconscious mind, there to have the intended effect. This article reports on a single-case experiment investigating the involvement of the unconscious in hypnotherapeutic responding. In this case the subject responded positively to suggestions that could not have reached the unconscious, indicating that the unconscious was not involved in such responding. An alternative view is proposed, namely that hypnotherapeutic responding involves a cognitive process in which a socially constructed new understanding of the problem behaviour and of hypnosis, based on the client's existing attribution of meaning, is followed by action considered appropriate to the new understanding and which then confirms this understanding, leading to behaviour change.

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Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Fourie¹

2011

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“…Indeed, humor implies "multiple simultaneous levels of meaning and impact" (Schnarch 1990: 77), and produces "the unique effect of forcing upon the humor participants an internal redefinition of reality" (Fry 1963: 153), which leads to experience the situation differently (Panichelli 2013). This process can be compared to what is called a reframing (Panichelli 2006), which is a central therapeutic tool in many different forms of psychotherapy (Fourie 2010), and is used to help patients towards a constructive change. At a more global level, in his autobiography, Reinaldo Arenas described the role of humor for the Cuban people themselves as a survival mechanism.…”

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Humorous sublimation of a dying Cuban writer in Reinaldo Arenas’ The Color of Summer

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Panichelli-Batalla²

2018

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How does a human being deal with suffering? How can we emotionally cope with the vicissitudes of life, especially in times where they suddenly multiply themselves? In this study, we present an innovative interdisciplinary study on the use of coping mechanisms by career writers dealing with difficult life events. We focus in particular on the use of humor and sublimation, two creative mental mechanisms that contribute to the lowering of anxiety while at the same time dealing constructively with the external stressors. Never before have these mechanisms been studied in a complementary way in the context of a literary study. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of Reinaldo Arenas' The Color of Summer. In this novel, this Cuban author introduces an autobiographical perspective of the Cuban sixties and seventies, intending to present a facet of history that would never appear in Cuban history books. The combination of both coping mechanisms, which we call humorous sublimation, offers a novel that not only helped the author cope with his tormented life, but also allowed the reader to gain an understanding of a dark period of Cuban history by means of a very funny and surreal reading.

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How to Give Voice to Children in Family Therapy

Andolfi¹

2016

Origins and Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice

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Asking About Ambivalence: A Different Kind of Therapist Neutrality

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Humorous sublimation of a dying Cuban writer in Reinaldo Arenas’ The Color of Summer

How to Give Voice to Children in Family Therapy

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