2003
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.20.4.635
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Specificity Theory and Optimal Responsiveness: An Outline.

Abstract: Specificity theory legitimizes the analyst's attempts to tailor the treatment process to improve its efficacy. It recognizes that the analyst's responsiveness effectively draws upon a rich palette of both verbal and nonverbal interventions for therapeutic relating. Dispensing with the notion of analytic neutrality, specificity theory recognizes that each therapist offers something therapeutically unique to a particular patient, which includes but also transcends both theory and technique, encompassing who the … Show more

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“…In fact, my long relationship with Katherine supports my conviction, as Howard Bacal (see Bacal and Herzog, 2003) so eloquently urged, that every analysis is unique and requires procedures specific to the needs and contexts of the dyad; and, as Donna Orange suggested, we "must hold our theories lightly" (see Stolorow, Atwood, and Orange, 1999, p. 386). I add that sometimes we have to juggle multiple theories for the benefit of our work.…”
Section: New Contexts New Treatment Strategiesmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…In fact, my long relationship with Katherine supports my conviction, as Howard Bacal (see Bacal and Herzog, 2003) so eloquently urged, that every analysis is unique and requires procedures specific to the needs and contexts of the dyad; and, as Donna Orange suggested, we "must hold our theories lightly" (see Stolorow, Atwood, and Orange, 1999, p. 386). I add that sometimes we have to juggle multiple theories for the benefit of our work.…”
Section: New Contexts New Treatment Strategiesmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…Perhaps I was not up to the task of maintaining a position of empathic immersion (Kohut, 1959) while having my efforts and interventions discarded and denigrated. It is possible that when an analyst feels so dehumanized by his patients, he or she can no longer optimally respond (Bacal, 1998;Bacal and Thomson, 1998;Bacal and Herzog, 2003).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…WeiselBarth invokes Bacal and Herzog's (2003) specificity theory; Stolorow, Atwood, and Orange's (1999) admonition to "hold our theories lightly," and the teachings of the philosopher Levinas (1969) as perspectives that help her place an analytic frame around her relationship with Katherine. I would not dispute the enormous value of these perspectives, but to me they do not do the whole job.…”
Section: Analytic Adoptionmentioning
confidence: 98%