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Self‐disclosure,trauma and the pressures on the analyst |
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| Authors: | Marcus West |
| Affiliation: | West Sussex, UK |
| Abstract: | This paper argues that self‐disclosure is intimately related to traumatic experience and the pressures on the analyst not to re‐traumatize the patient or repeat traumatic dynamics. The paper gives a number of examples of such pressures and outlines the difficulties the analyst may experience in adopting an analytic attitude – attempting to stay as closely as possible with what the patient brings. It suggests that self‐disclosure may be used to try to disconfirm the patient's negative sense of themselves or the analyst, or to try to induce a positive sense of self or of the analyst which, whilst well‐meaning, may be missing the point and may be prolonging the patient's distress. Examples are given of staying with the co‐construction of the traumatic early relational dynamics and thus working through the traumatic complex; this attitude is compared and contrasted with some relational psychoanalytic attitudes. |
| Keywords: | co‐construction early relational trauma idealization masochisto‐sadistic dynamic moral defence relational psychoanalysis self‐disclosure shadow hunting auto‐dé voilement traumatisme relationnel pré coce construction à deux psychanalyse relationnelle dé fense morale dynamique sadomasochiste repé rage de l’ ombre idé alisation Selbstdarstellung frü hes Beziehungstrauma Co‐Konstruktion Beziehungstheorie moralische Abwehr sado‐masochistische Dynamik Schattenjagd Idealisierung disvelamento di sé trauma relazionale precoce co‐construzione psicoanalisi relazionale difesa morale dinamica sado‐masochista caccia all'ombra idealizzazione с а м о р а с к р ы т и е р а н н я я т р а в м а о т н о ш е н и й с о в м е с т н о е п о с т р о е н и е п с и х о а н а л и з о т н о ш е н и й н р а в с т в е н н а я з а щ и т а м а з о х и с т с к о ‐с а д и с т и ч е с к а я д и н а м и к а о х о т а н а т е н ь и д е а л и з а ц и я auto‐revelació n trauma temprano relacional co‐construcció n psicoaná lisis relacional defensa moral diná mica sado‐masoquista cazando la sombra idealizació n 自 我 表 露 早 期 关 系 创 伤 共 建 关 系 精 神 分 析 道 德 防 御 施 虐 ‐受 虐 动 力 狩 猎 阴 影 完 美 化 |