Distinguishing Psychoanalysis from Psychotherapy

Kächele, Horst

doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00232.x

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“…Similar to Wallerstein's conclusions cited above, Kächele (2010) reported that, contrary to what was expected, empirical research offers little systematic evidence for significant differences in outcomes after supportive-expressive, analytic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. He finds that supportive techniques are as powerful as more interpretative ones and psychoanalysts use supportive techniques to a larger extent than usually assumed.…”

Section: Claims and Findings Concerning Extensive Psychoanalysissupporting

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Essential Psychoanalysis: Toward a Re-Appraisal of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy

Bhaskar

2015

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

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Freud stated that any line of investigation which recognizes transference and resistance, regardless of its results, was entitled to call itself psychoanalysis (Freud, 1914a, p. 16). Separately he wrote that psychoanalysis was the science of unconscious mental processes (Freud, 1925, p. 70). Combining these two ideas defines Essential Psychoanalysis: Any line of treatment, theory, or science which recognizes the facts of unconscious, transference, or resistance, and takes them as the starting point of its work, regardless of its results, is psychoanalysis. Freud formulated two conflicting definitions of psychoanalysis: Essential Psychoanalysis, applicable to all analysts regardless of their individuality and Extensive Psychoanalysis, modeled on his individuality. They differ in how psychoanalytic technique is viewed. For Essential Psychoanalysis, flexible recommendations constitute psychoanalytic technique, whereas for Extensive Psychoanalysis, rules constitute a key part of psychoanalytic technique.

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Section: Claims and Findings Concerning Extensive Psychoanalysissupporting

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Essential Psychoanalysis: Toward a Re-Appraisal of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy

Bhaskar

2015

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

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“…Alongside demonstrating effectiveness, however, such investigations may also shed further light on the therapeutic and analytic process and its moderators and mediators [30,49,51]. One such longstanding [2,3,18,19,45,64,67] as well as recently debated question, involving conceptual, clinical, educational and political implications, is whether and how psychoanalysis ''proper'' differs from psychoanalytically informed long-term therapies [8,31,35,71]. While the two treatments can be categorically distinguished based on extrinsic criteria, such as frequency of sessions, use of couch, and a fully trained psychoanalyst [18,35], differentiation based on the intrinsic treatment process is more difficult [65].…”

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Therapists’ professional and personal characteristics as predictors of outcome in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

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“…Podemos terminar citando una vez más a Horst Kächele (2010): "Desde el diverso y heterogéneo caleidoscopio de las prácticas y teorías psicoanalíticas, emerge una conclusión con razonable certeza. Todos los terapeutas psicoanalíticos deben aproximarse a su tarea con una profunda sensación de humildad.…”

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Un futuro posible para el psicoanálisis

Torres¹

2020

CeIR

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The loss of Horst Kächele prompts us to reflect on his person and his work, all centered on examining the problems of Psychoanalysis and how to solve them. His positivist conception of our discipline led him to practice, teach and investigate in an open and rigorous way. Open to different opinions, criticisms and questions. Rigorous in his conception of empirical research as the axis of the future of psychoanalysis. Starting from a personal interpretation of his proposals, some master lines are drawn here of what a psychoanalysis of the future could be, which protects our field from cultural and scientific irrelevance and enables fertile growth. Linking Psychoanalysis to the University, reviewing the training programs in depth and opting for decisive support for research are central elements in this possible future.

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Distinguishing Psychoanalysis from Psychotherapy

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Essential Psychoanalysis: Toward a Re-Appraisal of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy

Essential Psychoanalysis: Toward a Re-Appraisal of the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy

Therapists’ professional and personal characteristics as predictors of outcome in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

Un futuro posible para el psicoanálisis

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