scholarly journals The Use of the ‘Corrective Emotional Experience’ and the Search for the Bad Object in Psychotherapy

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelda G. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience

The Origins of the Leading Edge in Kohut's Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-196
Author(s):  
Peter Zimmermann ◽  
Harry Paul
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
The Self ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment ◽  
Psychoanalytic Literature ◽  
Growth Promoting ◽  
Selfobject Transference ◽  
Forward Edge

This article traces the evolution of the concept of the leading edge in Kohut's work. The leading edge is defined as the growth-promoting dimension of the transference. The authors argue that although Kohut did not ever use the term explicitly in his writings—Marian Tolpin (2002), one of Kohut's gifted pupils, introduced the concept into the psychoanalytic literature in the form of the forward edge—the idea of the leading edge was already present in nascent form in Kohut's earliest papers and became ever more central as his psychology of the self evolved and the concept of the selfobject transference took center stage. Kohut, it is argued, could not fully develop the idea of working with the leading edge for fear of being accused of advocating for a corrective emotional experience in psychoanalytic treatment. However, in his posthumous empathy paper (1982) Kohut came as close as he could to endorsing the leading edge as pivotal in all psychoanalytic work.

Assimilative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-227
Author(s):  
George Stricker ◽  
Jerry Gold
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Equivalent Efficacy

Assimilative psychodynamic psychotherapy maintains a relational psychodynamic focus and methodology but assimilates interventions from other orientations seamlessly when it might help to facilitate treatment for the patient. In order to understand the potential value of these interventions drawn from other orientations, accommodation is necessary. This is done by means of an expanded three-tier model. The importance of the therapeutic relationship, particularly with regard to providing a corrective emotional experience, and the value of self-understanding is stressed. An illustrative case is presented, research summarizing the equivalent efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy is presented, and directions for future development are suggested.

The Therapist's Dilemma: Be Sincere or Fake It?

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Morstyn
Keyword(s):  
Managed Care ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Legal Problems

Objective: To examine the pressure on therapists to fake sincerity and the significance of genuine sincerity in psychotherapy. Conclusions: There are many reasons why therapists might fake sincerity. We live in a post-modern culture of dissimulation and ‘playing the game’ that puts a premium on faking sincerity. Manualised and scripted psycho-therapies encourage fake sincerity, as do the measurement requirements of EBM, and the short-term approach of Managed Care. Kohut's ‘corrective emotional experience’ of empathy reinforces benevolent faked sincerity. Studies demonstrate the importance of the therapist appearing warm and genuine but do not differentiate appearance from reality. Therapists may fear that true sincerity will lead to crossing boundaries, harming patients, being poorly judged or medico-legal problems. Nevertheless, if therapists aren't willing to strive for genuine sincerity, despite all the attendant risks and possible complications, then they deny their patients the opportunity of working through the difficulties of achieving sincerity in any human relationship. Moments of true mutual sincerity in psychotherapy are healing not only because of the insight achieved but also because they restore the damaged hope that sincerity is possible. Therapists who fake sincerity ultimately leave their patients feeling alone and colluding in a mutually fake therapeutic relationship.

scholarly journals Psychological profile of pet owners in Isfahan, Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. e179974
Author(s):  
Negin Rahmani ◽  
Amin Barazandeh ◽  
Seyedeh Samaneh Sepehrtaj
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience ◽  
Pet Owners ◽  
Pet Owner

This study aimed to compare the psychological profile of pet owners with the ones who didn’t own any pets. The research method was a casual-comparative study. Pet owners and people without pets were included in this research which was done in Iran in February 2017. One hundred and sixty people were selected in this sample in a nonrandom available sampling method and matched in terms of demographic characteristics. Eighty people, pet owners, were referred to the veterinary clinics and 80 didn’t own any pets. They were assessed by a psychological signs inventory. The result of ANOVA indicated that pet owners and those without any pets were indifferent in the characteristics of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hostility, paranoid, interpersonal sensitivity, and psychosis, while those without any pets, statistically had a higher average in somatization and depression than the pet owners and it could be justified by corrective emotional experience, displacement, and sublimation in the pet owner. This statistic can be based on the fact that pet owners use these animals as an object for thrilling topics which is a factor to decrease their psychological stress and increase their physical health.

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