Supportive Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziva Levite ◽  
Idit Honigman ◽  
Hana Cohen ◽  
Liora Rehes ◽  
Gidi Shavit
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Approach ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

This paper aims to deepen understanding of the application of supportive psychoanalytic psychotherapy in work with couples and to anchor it in psychoanalytic theory and practice. It is based on the experience of collaboration between experienced couple therapists and supervisors, who face the frustration intrinsic to supportive psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy (SPCP). The article defines the principles of supportive psychoanalytic psychotherapy and discusses its application to couple psychotherapy, highlighting the therapist's role. A case example employing supportive couple psychotherapy is discussed for the purpose of clarifying and illustrating the essence of this therapeutic approach.

Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

2021 ◽  
pp. 371-374
Author(s):  
Jarrod M. Leffler
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Psychiatric Disease ◽  
Nonpharmacologic Treatment ◽  
Psychological Experiences ◽  
Pharmacologic Therapies

Pharmacologic therapies often complement nonpharmacologic therapies in the treatment of psychiatric disease. An overview of the theory and practice of psychotherapy and interventions is provided in this chapter. Psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy, developed by Sigmund Freud, has influenced many forms of psychotherapy. The underlying framework of psychoanalytic theory holds that a majority of a person’s psychological experiences are unconscious.

“O Canada!”: The Spectral Lesbian Poetics of Elizabeth Bishop

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Author(s):  
David R. Jarraway
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Lesbian Identity ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mother Loss ◽  
Aesthetic Practice

A general reluctance to engage the issue of lesbian identity in Elizabeth Bishop's work has understandably been conditioned by her own longstanding reticence. An approach that theorizes about the nonreferential, hence inarticulable, contours of Bishop's project, however, discloses a more eroticized aesthetic practice—one conceivably enabling the vital exploration of transgressive sexuality that perhaps goes without saying. What arguably forges the link between theory and practice is Bishop's experience of loss. The unspeakableness of mother loss due to insanity, mediated poignantly by the curtailment of Bishop's Canadian childhood, formerly provided the invitation to enclose Bishop's writing explicitly within a lifelong travail of itinerant displacement. Recent psychoanalytic theory, by contrast, foregrounds a more challenging loss that divides her writing between reality and the real and thus implicitly opens it up to a spectral lesbian poetics beyond what her canonical “American” identity readily permits readers to see and to say.

The Truths of Psychoanalysis

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Critical Reflections ◽  
Ethics And Politics

Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the various meanings of truth. Departing from various approaches to psychoanalytic theory and practice, the authors gathered in this book offer critical reflections and insights about truth and its effects. In articulations of psychoanalysis with (for instance) philosophy, ethics and politics, the reader will find discussions about issues such as knowledge, love, and clinical practice, all marked by the matter of truth.

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