Journal title STUDI JUNGHIANI
Author/s Markus West
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/54
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 9-27 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/jun54-2021oa13278
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This paper argues that self-disclosure is intimately related to traumatic experience and the pressures on the analyst not to re-traumatize the patient or repeat traumatic dynamics. The paper gives a number of examples of such pressures and outlines the difficulties the analyst may experience in adopting an analytic attitude – attempting to stay as closely as possible with what the patient brings. It suggests that self-disclosure may be used to try to disconfirm the patient's negative sense of themselves or the analyst, or to try to induce a positive sense of self or of the analyst which, whilst well-meaning, may be missing the point and may be prolonging the patient's distress. Examples are given of staying with the co-construction of the traumatic early relational dynamics and thus working through the traumatic complex; this attitude is compared and contrasted with some relational psychoanalytic attitudes
Keywords: ; Co-construction; Early Relational Trauma; Idealization; Masochistosadistic Dynamic; Moral Defence; Relational Psychoanalysis; Self-disclosure; Shadow Hunting
Markus West, Self-disclosure, trauma e pressioni sull’analista in "STUDI JUNGHIANI" 54/2021, pp 9-27, DOI: 10.3280/jun54-2021oa13278