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The mentoring dynamic in the therapeutic transformation

The mentoring dynamic in the therapeutic transformation THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: 37:115-122 (1977) THE MENTORING DYNAMIC IN THE THERAPEUTIC TRANSFORMATION Arthur Burton Teachers and mentors are generally held in low social esteem in the United States. There is a canard which suggests: "Those who cannot--teach." Yet it is a usual enough occurrence for students to have been touched in depth by a mentor and to have their ontic thrust furthered and life course altered by such contact. Therapists at large do not generally describe themselves as mentors, in fact, shy away from such a tight social identification. They find their profess!onal identity, their charisma, their healing power in a seemingly more esoteric and mysterious process than an ordinary learning or educational phenomenon affords. Even the behavioral modifiers, who rarely project themselves as modern incarnations of Anton Mesmer, act as social engineers of a special sort rather than as teachers. But Levinson, who has been studying intensively forty men between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five, finds a new dynamic significance in the concept of mentoring, and this has been confirmed in our own sample of men and women between the ages of thirty and forty. 1'2 Levinson says: We have been greatly impressed by the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

The mentoring dynamic in the therapeutic transformation

Burton, Arthur
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 37 (2): 8 – Jun 1, 1977
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Springer Journals
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1977 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1007/BF01254639
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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: 37:115-122 (1977) THE MENTORING DYNAMIC IN THE THERAPEUTIC TRANSFORMATION Arthur Burton Teachers and mentors are generally held in low social esteem in the United States. There is a canard which suggests: "Those who cannot--teach." Yet it is a usual enough occurrence for students to have been touched in depth by a mentor and to have their ontic thrust furthered and life course altered by such contact. Therapists at large do not generally describe themselves as mentors, in fact, shy away from such a tight social identification. They find their profess!onal identity, their charisma, their healing power in a seemingly more esoteric and mysterious process than an ordinary learning or educational phenomenon affords. Even the behavioral modifiers, who rarely project themselves as modern incarnations of Anton Mesmer, act as social engineers of a special sort rather than as teachers. But Levinson, who has been studying intensively forty men between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five, finds a new dynamic significance in the concept of mentoring, and this has been confirmed in our own sample of men and women between the ages of thirty and forty. 1'2 Levinson says: We have been greatly impressed by the

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Jun 1, 1977

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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