Emergency Interventions and Direct Interventions in Psychotic Crisis During Psychotherapy
- The term psychotic crisis should be understood not only as an acute psychopathological syndrome occurring in the whole spectrum of psychoses, but also as a crisis that may occur in a healed patient facing difficulties in everyday life, or as a sudden change in a long and monotonous psychotherapy. The therapeutical duty often consists in >teaching<the patient to forget the urgency of the situation, as a condition for a serious work on himself. >Urgent intervention<by the therapist should be differentiated from >direct intervention<. The former requires abandoning of the classical setting of verbal encounter, whereas >direct interventions< even if urgent and different from the usual psychoanalytic interventions, do not imply a change in the setting. I use this method only with psychotic patients in a situation of crisis. It implies >progressive overturnings< i.e. changing the situation of the patient in a positive direction by images arising from our therapeutic unconscious as a >projection< of the therapeutical imago. Usually they are verbal, but here I will show graphic and what I call >transforming< images. The >overturnings< are here summarized as 1. The overturning of autism into a one-to-one relationship 2. the overturning of repression into integration 3. the overturning of the destructive splitting into individuation.
MetadatenAuthor: | Gajetano Benedetti |
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Parent Title (English): | International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 2 (No. 4, December 1993), pp. 226-236. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 1993 |
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Release Date: | 2012/12/13 |
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Format: | PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage |
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IdNo: | Benedetti_G_1993 |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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