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Analysis once a week

Analysis once a week HAROLD KELMAN * HE PURPOSE of this paper is to point out some of the indications, possibilities, and limital~ions of working with a patient once a week using the method of character analysis. Character analysis, as it has been and is being developed by Dr. Horney, is such a new and ver- satile tool for therapy and investigation, that we have only begun to explore its possibilities. The premises inherent in character analysis are quite different from those dictated by the method of Freudian analysis. Freud was moving through uncharted fields. The more one is limited in knowledge and lacking in the tools with which to gather that knowl- edge in any field of endeavor, the greater the tendency to adhere to rules of conduct pertinent to other fields of investigation. There is also the tendency to make into rules to be adhered to, hypotheses which should only be tentative formulations as guides for action. For these reasons Freud attempted to apply the scientific method as he knew it to his psychoanalytic investigations. He therefore concluded that in order to get a complete record of what was going on in a patient, he should be seen daily. He compromised http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
1945 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01872594
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Abstract

HAROLD KELMAN * HE PURPOSE of this paper is to point out some of the indications, possibilities, and limital~ions of working with a patient once a week using the method of character analysis. Character analysis, as it has been and is being developed by Dr. Horney, is such a new and ver- satile tool for therapy and investigation, that we have only begun to explore its possibilities. The premises inherent in character analysis are quite different from those dictated by the method of Freudian analysis. Freud was moving through uncharted fields. The more one is limited in knowledge and lacking in the tools with which to gather that knowl- edge in any field of endeavor, the greater the tendency to adhere to rules of conduct pertinent to other fields of investigation. There is also the tendency to make into rules to be adhered to, hypotheses which should only be tentative formulations as guides for action. For these reasons Freud attempted to apply the scientific method as he knew it to his psychoanalytic investigations. He therefore concluded that in order to get a complete record of what was going on in a patient, he should be seen daily. He compromised

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1945

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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