Addressing Psychoanalysis's Post-Tower of Babel Linguistic Challenge: A Proposal for a Cross-Theoretical, Clinical Nomenclature
2018; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 54; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00107530.2018.1457928
ISSN2330-9091
Autores Tópico(s)Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
ResumoAfter noting how psychoanalysis has fragmented into theoretical and methodological clusters lacking a common language, the author proposes a unifying nomenclature for clinical psychoanalysis. Specifically, he suggests psychoanalysts, regardless of theoretical orientation, frame psychoanalytic relationships, bring presence to their patients, and engage them. These methods facilitate transformation most commonly by bringing features of the unconscious into consciousness. They also disrupt patients' internalization processes—phenomena synonymous with what Fairbairn (1941 Fairbairn, W. R. D. (1941). A revised psychopathology of the psychoses and the psychoneuroses. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 22, 250–279.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) called the “schizoid background” (p. 250), Klein (1946 Klein, M. (1946). Notes on some schizoid mechanisms. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 27, 99–110.[PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) “schizoid mechanisms” (p. 99), Steiner (1993 Steiner, J. (1993). Psychic retreats. New York, NY: Routledge.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) “psychic retreats” (p. 1), Kernberg (2007 Kernberg, O. F. (2007). The almost untreatable narcissistic patient. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 55, 503–539. doi: 10.1177/00030651070550020701[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) the “narcissistic spectrum” (p. 510), and Summers (2014 Summers, F. (2014). The bonds of empathy: Beyond the self-object concept. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, 9, 222–236.doi: 10.1080/15551024.2014.917464[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) “narcissistic encapsulation” (p. 233). The author provides a clinical vignette demonstrating how framing, presence, and engagement describe psychoanalytic work, and concludes by discussing how such nomenclature could enhance psychoanalysts' capacity to communicate with one another while also making the field more accessible to the general public.
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