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Following old paths to new places – thirdness, mentalization, and the search for a transformational meeting

  • Both parts of the therapeutic dyad are searching for ways of relating between them that are more flexible and that open up new possibilities for thought and feeling. When therapy succeeds, patients transcend old transference expectations and fears in a meeting with another subject, a meeting with qualities of something essentially new. Here, it is hypothesized that the patient in the transference unconsciously searches for a transformational meeting with another person. Through the interaction that is a result of this search, the patient moves between twoness and thirdness, and thereby enhances his or her mentalizing capacity. A transcript (of recorded material) from an intensive psychoanalytic therapy with a female patient in her early twenties is presented, analyzed, and discussed, focusing on how she made progress in her relational search during a session.

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Author:Per-Einar Binder
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 3, 2009), pp. 168-176.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2009
Release Date:2019/03/04
Format:PDF-file upon request / PDF-Datei auf Anfrage
IdNo:Binder_P-E_2009
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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