The psychotherapist's identification with the patient.

Title: The psychotherapist's identification with the patient.
Identifier: AAI9618068
identifier: 9618068
Creator: Geltner, Paul.
Contributor: Adviser: Mildrid Mailick
Date: 1996
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Social Work | Education, Educational Psychology | Psychology, Clinical
Abstract: The study was designed to explore the phenomenon of the psychotherapist's experience of identification with the patient. Twenty experienced psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists were interviewed. The interviews were conducted from a qualitative phenomenological orientation, with the use of an interview guide. The data collected in the interviews was subjected to an inductive analysis. The findings included: a typology of identifications experienced by therapist; an analysis of the positive and negative effects of identifications on the treatment process; an analysis of the factors which helped therapists to recognize identifications; and an analysis of factors which tended to make therapists lose control or help therapists to maintain control of the experience of identifying with the patient.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: D.S.W.