Patients’ unconscious plans for solving their problems

Weiss, Joseph

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“…In this sense, what happened between us in this interaction could be seen as a version of what Weiss, Sampson, and their colleagues (e.g. Silberschatz, 2005; Weiss, 1998; Weiss and Sampson, 1986) depict as the patient unconsciously posing a ‘test’ for the therapist. In this instance, I think that the unconscious test that Andrew was posing was whether he could control the degree of contact between us and whether we could remain in contact on his terms – that is, with his regulation of the intensity and nature of the contact.…”

Section: The Case Of Andrewmentioning

confidence: 85%

One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

Wachtel

2010

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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There has been increasing interest among analysts in the possibilities of enriching psychoanalytic thought through fuller incorporation of attachment theory and research. This paper offers a clinical illustration of the ways in which attention to an attachment perspective can lead to novel and useful ways of addressing the patient's issues. It also presents a number of cautions that it is necessary to be alert to if attachment thinking is to achieve its full potential in advancing psychoanalytic thought and practice. Conceptions of attachment and approaches to its study and clinical use actually vary quite substantially. Some are more one-person, static, and categorical. Others are more two-person, dynamic, and focused on the process whereby attachment patterns develop and are maintained over time. This paper explores the distinction between these two versions of attachment theory and research with two aims in mind - first, to refine our understanding of the potential role that attachment thinking can play in advancing the psychoanalytic paradigm; second, to utilize the insights achieved through examining the attachment paradigm to consider some broader issues in the construction of psychoanalytic theory more generally and its relational variant in particular.

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Section: The Case Of Andrewmentioning

confidence: 85%

One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

Wachtel

2010

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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“…There are researches that support the existence of primary unconscious motivations to solve problems and that the analytic link would allow them to be developed (Weiss, 1998). Or considerations about "healthy virtuality" (Badaracco, 2005) that would still exist in the most serious patients, and that would imply the existence of healthy unconscious potentials.…”

Section: Neuroplasticity Neogenesis and Restructuration Bondsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Expressions of Despair. Resilience and Psychic Potentiality

Rodado¹,

Rodado²

2018

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In the theory of Winnicott, a criterion of health is the psychic wealth. This is a concept not defined by the author, like so many others, that can be understood as the psychic ability to endure paradoxes. A capacity that starts from maternal care, which requires the maturity (evolutionary, non-chronological) of the baby. A skill that allows to maintain the subjective movement between the states of integration and non-integration of the subject. It also promotes the creativity of the baby in a possible space of play and exchange with the mother. Sometimes a traumatizing environment surrounds the individual and despite this, he manages to have creative expressions that show the psychic wealth. In these cases, where does the capacity called resilience come from? There are investigations that support the existence of primary unconscious motivations to solve problems and that the analytical link would allow them to develop them. Or considerations about a healthy capacity that would imply the existence of healthy unconscious potentials. In the present work we will address these situations of resilience. For this we will take the notion of restructuring bonding, where to the classical perspectives on the structuring value of the primary bond is added the restructuring potential of the secondary bonds. We will also take into account the conception of neuroplasticity. To explain these theoretical aspects, we will describe a clinical case of a 12-year-old adolescent with antisocial behaviors and a traumatic family history. In him, the existence of a healthy unconscious potentiality, repairing identifications and intense analytic work enabled the appearance of a creative act. A creative act that allowed him a libidinal and interrelational departure from his traumatic aspects.

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“…Y a la vez la teoría psicoanalítica y su concepción de la ambivalencia ha evitado caer en ingenuidades clínicas o teóricas. Por otra parte existen investigaciones que sostienen la existencia de motivaciones inconscientes primarias para resolver problemas y que el vínculo analítico permitiría desarrollarlas (Weiss, 1998). También son importantes las consideraciones sobre la "virtualidad sana" (García Badaracco, 2006) que existiría aún en los pacientes más graves, pues esto implicaría la existencia de potenciales inconscientes salutogénicos, coexistiendo con las tradicionales resistencias inconscientes, que podrían ser activados en determinada condición relacional.…”

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Sobre el desarrollo resiliente: perspectiva psicoanalítica

Rubén¹,

Raquel²

2011

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Resumen. Se presenta una perspectiva psicoanalítica sobre el desarrollo resiliente, como un proceso de transformación subjetiva. Se describe la relación entre adversidad, vulnerabilidad y potencial transformador activado por vínculos significativos. Este potencial es estudiado a partir de la noción metapsicológica de proceso terciario que es un dinamismo que articula lo inconsciente escindido con lo inconsciente reprimido, dentro de un modelo de la mente que consideramos como una tercera tópica. Desde el punto de vista psicoanalítico definimos la resiliencia como una metamorfosis subjetiva producto de la activación de un potencial que implica funcionar con la plasticidad necesaria para la creación de condiciones psíquicas nuevas (proceso terciario) que capturen y transformen el efecto traumático permitiendo desarrollar recursos nuevos, con la imprescindible existencia de vínculos intersubjetivos. Palabras clave: escisión, tercera tópica, proceso terciario, vínculos, resiliencia.Abstract. We present a psychoanalytic approach to the resilient development as a transformation process. We also describe the relationship between adversity, vulnerability and transforming potential, activated by significant bonds. This potential is studied from the metapsychological notion of tertiary process, which is a dynamism that articulates the split unconscious with the repressed unconscious, within a model of the mind that we considered like a third topic. From the psychoanalytic point of view, we defined the resilience as a subjective metamorphosis product of the activation of a potential that implies the plasticity for the creation of new psychic conditions (tertiary process), which capture and transform the traumatic effect allowing to develop new resources, with the essential existence of intersubjective bonds.

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Patients’ unconscious plans for solving their problems

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

One‐person and two‐person conceptions of attachment and their implications for psychoanalytic thought

Creative Expressions of Despair. Resilience and Psychic Potentiality

Sobre el desarrollo resiliente: perspectiva psicoanalítica

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