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Visions of the Future: The Analyst's Expectations and Their Impact on the Analytic Process

Visions of the Future: The Analyst's Expectations and Their Impact on the Analytic Process The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 57, No. 2, 1997 VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: THE ANALYST'S EXPECTATIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE ANALYTIC PROCESS Kenneth Winarick Ever since Freud's (1912) warning of the dangers of therapeutic ambi- tion, psychoanalysts have been reluctant to allow expectations and goals for their patients to enter into the analytic process. Sensitive to charges of unduly influencing patients with subjective and culturally contextualized values, and curing by nonanalytic interventions, psychoanalysts have tended to view expectations and goals as contaminants of an idealized conception of neutrality in which the analyst is modeled after a cool re- search scientist, observing the workings of the patient's mind and convey- ing these observations to the patient with the aim of producing insight without regard for results. Some analysts have found this cold surgeon-like view of the analyst's role to be problematic, and have attempted to temper it with constructs like "compassionate neutrality" (Greenson, 1967), "tech- nical neutrality" (Kernberg, 1996), and "benevolent neutrality" (Stone, 1984), all of which are aimed at humanizing the analyst's relation to the patient and introducing a sense of friendliness and concern for the patient's well-being into the analytic attitude. For all their good intentions, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1997 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 57, No. 2, 1997 VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: THE ANALYST'S EXPECTATIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE ANALYTIC PROCESS Kenneth Winarick Ever since Freud's (1912) warning of the dangers of therapeutic ambi- tion, psychoanalysts have been reluctant to allow expectations and goals for their patients to enter into the analytic process. Sensitive to charges of unduly influencing patients with subjective and culturally contextualized values, and curing by nonanalytic interventions, psychoanalysts have tended to view expectations and goals as contaminants of an idealized conception of neutrality in which the analyst is modeled after a cool re- search scientist, observing the workings of the patient's mind and convey- ing these observations to the patient with the aim of producing insight without regard for results. Some analysts have found this cold surgeon-like view of the analyst's role to be problematic, and have attempted to temper it with constructs like "compassionate neutrality" (Greenson, 1967), "tech- nical neutrality" (Kernberg, 1996), and "benevolent neutrality" (Stone, 1984), all of which are aimed at humanizing the analyst's relation to the patient and introducing a sense of friendliness and concern for the patient's well-being into the analytic attitude. For all their good intentions,

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