TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. A1 - Aronand, Lewis T1 - Review Barnaby Barratt: Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 571-582. N2 - This introduction to the symposium explores the key features of the American Psychological Association empirically supported treatment (EST) guidelines, the forces leading to their development, and some of the potential implications of these guidelines for the future of psychoanalysis. The EST guidelines consist of (a) a set of criteria for identifying psychotherapeutic treatments that can be considered effective on the basis of research evidence and (b) a list of treatments that meet these criteria. These guidelines are an outgrowth of a more general trend in the health care system – the shift toward an evidence-based practice model. Although the EST movement clearly has important professional implications for psychoanalysis, categorizing and possibly dismissing the relevant concerns as exclusively political or territorial would be a mistake. At issue are fundamentally important epistemological and ethical concerns. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. T1 - Review Essay Self-Inquiry and the Relational Frame: A Historical Note JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 659-681. N2 - In this conclusion, I synthesize and elaborate on some of the central threads running through the contributions to the symposium on the implications of the empirically supported treatment (EST) controversy for psychoanalysis. I argue that the EST controversy brings increased urgency to discussions about the role that empirical research should play in the development of psychoanalysis and about the potential contributions of different research paradigms to the field. Different research paradigms are associated with different epistemologies and worldviews, and the dialogue between these worldviews is critical to the vitality and health of the field. On one hand, the EST movement embodies limited, mechanistic, and one-sided values, and psychoanalysis has an important role to play in challenging these values. On the other hand, the EST movement can offer an important corrective to the more insular and rarefied strands within psychoanalysis and to its tradition of argument on the basis of authority. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. T1 - Self psychology: Later, the same day response to editors’ follow-up questions JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 171-195. N2 - In this article I describe an approach to brief psychoanalytic treatment that is consistent with many of the key principles of the relational tradition. In this approach the treatment process is conceptualized as an ongoing cycle of therapeutic enactment, disembedding, and understanding, enactment and disembedding. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of countertransference disclosure for purposes of facilitating the collaborative exploration of relational scenarios that are being unwittingly enacted between patient and therapist. The influence of the brief time frame on the treatment process is explored and differences between the current approach and other approaches to brief psychoanalytic treatment are examined. A case is presented to illustrate the approach, and a number of questions are explored regarding the nature of change in short-versus long-term treatments. Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. T1 - Sex, Lies, and Audiotape: Psychoanalysts Reflect on President Clinton's Impeachment JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 235-258. N2 - In this article I. Reply to commentaries on my paper, >Brief Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment.< The discussants have raised a number of thoughtful and discerning questions that provide me with an opportunity to clarify some of the major points in my original article and to elaborate on certain issues in greater depth. Some of the key questions addressed in my. Reply are: (1) How is the tension between the emphasis on openness and receptivity and the time-limited nature of treatment negotiated in Brief Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment? (2) To what extent does an emphasis on openness and receptivity interfere with the process of establishing a productive focus? (3) How does one resolve the tension between the desire for change and the need for acceptance? (4) What are the therapeutic implications of regarding the mind as embodied and what roles do emotion and bodily felt experience play in the change process? In addition, I take up the question of whether or not adhering to a constructivist epistemology is incompatible with conducting and valuing psychotherapy research. Y1 - 2002 ER -