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Healing through meeting: A dialogical approach to psychotherapy

Healing through meeting: A dialogical approach to psychotherapy THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:255-267 (1975) HEALING THROUGH MEETING: A DIALOGICAL APPROACH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY Part I * Maurice Friedman One aspect of the movement of existential psychology and psychiatry that has con- sistently been neglected, even if touched on here and there, is that of heaiing through meeting. Though it has been present as a minor theme in much of the literature, a strong light has never been trained on it so as to bring out its true importance and illuminate the issues and problems that it raises. All therapy relies to a greater or lesser extent on the meeting between therapist and client and the meeting among clients. But only a few theories have singled out meeting-the sphere of the "between"-as the central, as opposed to ancillary, source of healing. From the very beginning of formal psychoanalysis, healing through meeting was al- ready built into the system as an indispensable means to the end of overcoming fixa- tion and repressions. Even if the therapeutic situation was toned down by Freud's ask- ing the patient to lie on the couch rather than face him, it still was a meeting, in con- trast, for instance, to the situation in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Healing through meeting: A dialogical approach to psychotherapy

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 35 (3): 13 – Sep 1, 1975

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1975 APS Publications, Inc.
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01248485
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Abstract

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:255-267 (1975) HEALING THROUGH MEETING: A DIALOGICAL APPROACH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY Part I * Maurice Friedman One aspect of the movement of existential psychology and psychiatry that has con- sistently been neglected, even if touched on here and there, is that of heaiing through meeting. Though it has been present as a minor theme in much of the literature, a strong light has never been trained on it so as to bring out its true importance and illuminate the issues and problems that it raises. All therapy relies to a greater or lesser extent on the meeting between therapist and client and the meeting among clients. But only a few theories have singled out meeting-the sphere of the "between"-as the central, as opposed to ancillary, source of healing. From the very beginning of formal psychoanalysis, healing through meeting was al- ready built into the system as an indispensable means to the end of overcoming fixa- tion and repressions. Even if the therapeutic situation was toned down by Freud's ask- ing the patient to lie on the couch rather than face him, it still was a meeting, in con- trast, for instance, to the situation in

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1975

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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