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Therapist satisfaction

Therapist satisfaction THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:115-122 (1975) Arthur Burton Freud noted many years ago that the psychoanalytic situation was one that gave little overall satisfaction to either of its participants. It is commonly known that those who have taken part in a long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy just as often feel unrequited as they feel pleased with the therapeutic outcome. For a germinal process in which love and positive regard have such a central place, this conclusion is indeed a disturbing one. Perhaps the feeling one has about the outcome of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not necessarily correlated with the actual good it does. People in general seem to feel, in retrospect, that a mother, father, or lover should have done more for them than was done. We make an attempt to please the analysand, to make the psychotherapeutic situation the least stressful possible, and to have the patient go away happy at its con- clusion. The fact that the latter occurs not as frequently as we would like is part and parcel of the whole cultural question of the meaning and value of psychoanalytic psychotherapy itself. My focus in this essay is on a somewhat different order but is related http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Therapist satisfaction

Burton, Arthur
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 35 (2): 8 – Jun 1, 1975
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Springer Journals
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1975 APS Publications, Inc.
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1007/BF01358183
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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 35:115-122 (1975) Arthur Burton Freud noted many years ago that the psychoanalytic situation was one that gave little overall satisfaction to either of its participants. It is commonly known that those who have taken part in a long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy just as often feel unrequited as they feel pleased with the therapeutic outcome. For a germinal process in which love and positive regard have such a central place, this conclusion is indeed a disturbing one. Perhaps the feeling one has about the outcome of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not necessarily correlated with the actual good it does. People in general seem to feel, in retrospect, that a mother, father, or lover should have done more for them than was done. We make an attempt to please the analysand, to make the psychotherapeutic situation the least stressful possible, and to have the patient go away happy at its con- clusion. The fact that the latter occurs not as frequently as we would like is part and parcel of the whole cultural question of the meaning and value of psychoanalytic psychotherapy itself. My focus in this essay is on a somewhat different order but is related

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Published: Jun 1, 1975

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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