The empathic mode of perception and alternative vantage points for psychoanalytic work

Lichtenberg, Joseph D.

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“…My interest over the past decade and a half has been to explore the sensibilities of someone inside the caregiver-infant (Lichtenberg, 1983) and analyst-analysand exchanges (Lichtenberg, Lachmann, and Fosshage, 1992). The principal tool has been the empathie mode of perception (Lichtenberg, 1981), an approach that attempts as systematically as possible to sense the state of mind of another.…”

Section: Motivation and Interaction In Caregiver-infant Exchangesmentioning

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“…The five motivational system develop in response to the need for the psychic regulation of physiological requirements, the need for attachment and later affiliation, the need for exploration and assertion, the need to react aversively through antagonism and/or withdrawal, and the need for sensual enjoyment, and later, sexual excitement (Lichtenberg, 1989). Even in utero in the last trimester, the dance of patterning begins between the specific baby-oh he-she is so active-and the specific mother (her heart beat) and father-their voices and speech rhythms.…”

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“…The principal tool has been the empathie mode of perception (Lichtenberg, 1981), an approach that attempts as systematically as possible to sense the state of mind of another. The empathie mode of perception combines empathy and affect attunement with intuition and reasoned thought.…”

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Caregiver‐infant, analyst‐analysand exchanges: Models of interaction

Lichtenberg

1996

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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I NTERACTION, LIKE REGULATION, structure, motivation, and experience, is a term of such breadth that, without further delineation, it offers little to psychoanalysis. In this paper, I describe the approach I take to a number of topics that are at times subsumed under the rubric of interaction. Two groups of observations are easy to regard as interactions: caregiver-infant exchanges and analyst-analysand exchanges. Even used for these exchanges the term conveys an impression of an observer external to the exchange-one who observes, catalogues, and assigns meanings to (interprets) what caregiver and infant or analyst and analysand are doing with each other. Being, to a degree, outside the exchange can free the observer from the sway of a more intense subjective bias, but that is the rub. The key to observing the ebb and flow of caregiver-infant and analystanalysand exchanges lies in the subjective cuing of one another by affective-cognitive communication. Outside the interaction we can see what the participants are doing, but we often can't see how each is cuing the other to do it. Inside the interaction we can feel the evocative effect of the other's cues and the responsive effect of our own motivation, but we often respond long before we can be reflective about it, and then we generally are reflective only to a limited degree.Dr.

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Caregiver‐infant, analyst‐analysand exchanges: Models of interaction

Lichtenberg

1996

Psychoanalytic Inquiry

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“…Auch wenn die Affektansteckung als primärprozeßhafter Vorgang nur selten oder nur in regressiven Zuständen beobachtbar ist, bildet sie -vielleicht als "Bereitschaft", solche regressiven Zustände ertragen zu können" (Krause 1996, S. 70) -vermutlich den Kern des empathischen Verstehens (Strayer 1987), zumindest ist sie eine seiner Voraussetzungen, wie Krause (1996) und auch Lichtenberg (1981) meinen. Allerdings ist die Affektansteckung noch nicht mit der Empathie gleichzusetzen.…”

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Einfühlung: über Empathie

Körner¹

1998

Forum der Psychoanalyse

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The ability to share another person's feelings: About empathy Summary. The ability of empathy includes different competences: being infected by emotions, the adoption of another person's perspective and the capability to understand the social context. All three competences have to be learned through social experiences. A theory of the empathic process has to describe, how it is possible to experience emotions and phantasies of another person in the self as one's own and to recognize them as belonging to the other. The theoretically founded attempt to differentiate between self-perception and the perception of the other proves necessarily to reach an impass. A constructivistic hypothesis seems to be more appropriate here, that conceives empathy as a personal draft. This draft is directed by one's own inner objects and by concrete experiences with the other as well. In the psychoanalytic dialogue both participants, patient and analyst, develop their empathic drafts and try to reach through them an understanding.Zusammenfassung. Die Fähigkeit zur Empathie setzt sich aus unterschiedlichen Kompetenzen zusammen: Der Gefühlsansteckung, der Perspektivenübernahme und der Fähigkeit, den Kontext sozialer Situationen zu verstehen. Alle drei Kompetenzen müssen in sozialer Erfahrung gelernt werden. Eine Theorie des empathischen Prozesses hat darzustellen, wie es möglich ist, im Selbst die Gefühle und Phantasien eines Anderen zu erfahren und ihm auch zuzuordnen. Hier zeigt sich, daß der theoretisch begründete Versuch, zwischen Selbst-und Fremdwahrnehmung zu unterscheiden, in eine Sackgasse führen muß. Angemessener erscheint eine konstruktivistisch orientierte Hypothese, die die Einfühlung als einen persönlichen Entwurf versteht. Dieser Entwurf orientiert sich sowohl an den eigenen inneren Objekten als auch an den konkreten Erfahrungen mit dem Gegenüber. Im psychoanalytischen Dialog bringen beide Beteiligte, Patienten und Psychoanalytiker, ihre empathischen Entwürfe zur Geltung und suchen darüber eine Verständigung.

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“…After a while I heard and learned the details but did not fully immerse myself in her experience. I listened more and more as a sympathetic interested companion (Lichtenberg, 1984). My transient identifications with the patient were limited.…”

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Some Limits and Hazards of Empathy

Satran

1991

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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The empathic mode of perception and alternative vantage points for psychoanalytic work

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Caregiver‐infant, analyst‐analysand exchanges: Models of interaction

Caregiver‐infant, analyst‐analysand exchanges: Models of interaction

Einfühlung: über Empathie

Some Limits and Hazards of Empathy

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