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Using Analytic Space: A Challenge to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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As psychoanalysts, we have to be constantly aware of the impact of external reality upon the analytic process, whether this comes from the world outside the consulting room or from within it. In particular, I am concerned with the disturbing influence that may come from the analyst’s devotion to new theoretical positions and ways of working. Also we cannot prescribe ‘good experience’ for any patient. We can only follow the process, and this may require of us that we survive being used by the patient to represent all that has been worst in the patient’s life. We should never deflect that.

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Casement, P. Using Analytic Space: A Challenge to Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Clin Soc Work J 33, 389–400 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-005-7033-z

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