TY - JOUR A1 - Lindon, John A. T1 - Commentary on Sampson's >the role of ‘real’ experience in psychopathology and treatment< JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 04 (1994), pp. 549-582. N2 - My thesis is that the rule of abstinence, which is currently taught in technique seminars and defended as integral to developing a psychoanalytic process, in fact, interferes with psychoanalysis and should be replaced with the concept of optimal provision. The rule did not accomplish Freud's original aim for it, which was to be the motivating force impelling the patient to work analytically. Not only is it unnecessary, but it has been detrimental: skewing, disrupting, and prolonging analysis. In addition, much is not analyzed that could have been except for the rule of abstinence, which essentially closes off whole areas from analysis. Despite the emphasis on deprivation or non-gratification, there is much provision and gratification in traditional analysis, as well as in all theoretical models of analysis. I demonstrate that unintended gratifications or provisions are supplied in even the most classical analysis. I review the literature and show that we are talking about degrees of provision, gratification, or both all the time. Logically, then, we should determine what is the optimal provision, that is, that which facilitates and does not obstruct the analysis. Much clinical material is presented to illustrate provisions that facilitate the analysis and seeming-provisions that obstruct. We should abandon the rule of abstinence and should replace it with the concept of optimal provision. Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindon, John A. T1 - Compromise Formation Theory: An Intersubjective Dimension JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 04 (1994), pp. 619-630. Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindon, John A. T1 - Dynamic Systems Theories as a Metaframework for Psychoanalysis JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 537-543. Y1 - 1995 ER -