Psychoanalysis Techniques and Applications 3

Question 1

What is the difference between 'transference neurosis' and ordinary transference?

Accepted Answer

Transference neurosis is when the analyst becomes the central focus of the patient's neurotic conflicts

Answer

Transference neurosis occurs when the patient's neurosis becomes concentrated in the analytic relationship, making the analyst the primary object of conflictual feelings.

Question 2

Which of the following best describes 'countertransference' in contemporary psychoanalytic practice?

Accepted Answer

All of the analyst's emotional reactions to the patient, used as clinical data

Answer

Contemporary analysts view countertransference broadly as all the analyst's reactions to the patient, which can provide valuable information about the patient's unconscious communications.

Question 3

What is 'projective identification' as a clinical phenomenon?

Accepted Answer

When a patient projects an unwanted part of the self into the analyst and then pressures the analyst to act accordingly

Answer

Projective identification involves projecting a part of the self into another and then exerting interpersonal pressure to make that person feel or act in accordance with the projection.

Question 4

What is the significance of 'enactment' in contemporary psychoanalytic treatment?

Accepted Answer

When both analyst and patient unconsciously participate in a re-creation of a relational pattern

Answer

Enactment refers to moments when both parties unconsciously participate in a relational scenario derived from the patient's past, which can be analyzed to deepen understanding.

Question 5

In object relations therapy, what does 'containment' (Bion) refer to?

Accepted Answer

The analyst's capacity to receive, process, and return the patient's projected anxiety in a more tolerable form

Answer

Bion's concept of containment describes how the analyst functions like a mother who receives the infant's projected terror, metabolizes it, and returns it in a detoxified form.

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Psychoanalysis Techniques and Applications 3