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Impasse or Pseudo-impasse in the Psychotherapy of an Inhibited Writer
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This paper describes the interactions of a patient and her therapist in the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, during which there occurred two significant impasse enactments. At first sight, each resembled a classical impasse. On further review of the case, the interactions took on a different texture that we have described as a pseudo-impasse in the course of the therapy. The enactments took the form of an abrupt cessation of the therapy in which the patient terminated and then later returned, thereby giving a more intense rhythm to the therapy. The patient, described as a sexually inhibited novelist with symptoms of panic and anxiety, said at the outset that she was never able to express strong feelings for fear of criticism. Central issues included a number of conflicts: the manner of referral in which her friend (who was also a friend of the therapist) was instrumental; the grief for her dead mother and her lost sister; and overt conflict with her critical father. These conflicts became re-enacted within the interactions between herself and her therapist. The stages of therapy could best be described as at first wishing her therapist to be her 'sin eater,' and, subsequently, her idealized, loving, nonjudgmental parent. We understand the pseudo-impasses to represent psychotherapeutically framed developmental steps.
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“However, her sad feelings turned to frustration and anger when the therapist could not magically help her with her feelings about her missing sister.”
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“The enactments took the form o f an abrupt cessation o f the therapy in which the patient terminated and then later returned, thereby giving a more intense rhythm to the therapy.”
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“She gradually became able to speak about her feelings toward the people in her life, and as she did so, her symptoms of panic lifted.”
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“D. was able to recognize the repetition of some aspects of her relationship with her mother.”
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“Finally, she abrupdy ended the therapy by mail, two years after it had begun.”
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“during which there occurred two significant impasse enactments.”
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“A central concern from the beginning was her violation of a boundary related to her acceptance of being treated by a friend of her friend and, thus, inviting constant fear of criticism and rejection.”
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“We understand the pseudo-impasses to represent psychotherapeutically fram ed developm ental steps.”
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“It is of interest that, in this case, the patient wants to give her therapist a second and even a third opportunity to help her feel safe in her erotic feelings toward him, as is clearly described in the session with the dream of her lost sister and her brother.”
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“In the case here presented, the therapist's hesitancy to connect up the effect of the influence of their mutual friend in her transferential feelings toward him, at least in the first phase of the therapy, was possibly significant in the development of the impasse, or rather pseudo-impasse as we have thought of it.”
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“This time she was able to examine the erotic aspects of her (transferential) feelings to him with a deeper understanding of the significance of this in her search for a loving, less judgmental parent, probably a father figure.”
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“Her reunions with the therapist reflect her internalization of him as an object with whom she may and in fact does reconcile her need to resist and withdraw with her wish to sustain her pain and obtain something strength ening from the therapy at each developmental step.”
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“Replication of the oedipal triangle incorporating her female friend and her male therapist became increasingly evident early in treat ment.”
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“On further review o f the case, the interactions took on a different texture that w e have described as a pseudo-impasse in the course o f the therapy.”
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“Although this was a portal to her lifelong expectations of criticism and sense of guilt, the defensive aspects of her anger toward the friend (displaced from the therapist) was avoided by both the patient and the therapist.”
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“These conflicts became re-enacted within the interactions betw een h erself and her therapist.”
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“She began to experience the sessions as a safe place to feel things until she brought themes of illicit sexual images, such as urinating in the woods on a walk with her husband.”
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“She returned six months later, giving as the reason her overt conflict with her father that was connected with feelings of self-blame and guilt.”
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“It was most evident on the day of her therapist's return from vacation when he encountered her being brought to the emergency depart ment accompanied by her friend.D. was feeling extremely angry, rejected, and abandoned, and had turned to her friend to be brought to emergency at the exact hour of her therapist's return.”
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“In hindsight, while the therapist had not anticipated the developing impasse leading to the departure of the patient, he, in fact, was not surprised that this had occurred.”
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“Central issues included a number o f conflicts: the manner o f referral in which her frien d (who was also a frien d o f the therapist) was instrumental; the grief fo r her dead m other and her lost sister; and overt conflict with her critical father.”
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“said at the outset that she was never able to express strong feelin gs fo r fea r o f criticism.”
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“During this time, D. became more involved with her father and discovered the existence of a hitherto unknown half-brother, her father's son from his first marriage who had been left behind in England at the mother's insistence.”
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“Despite this, a working alliance unfolded in the first two years, and D. grew more assertive in her relationships and productive in her writing.”
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“When, at this time, she tried to discuss her marriage, she again became symptomatic, and again abruptly terminated in the fall of the year, only to return three months later.”
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“She tried to locate her newfound brother only to discover that he had died some years earlier.”
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“The course of the therapy in this next phase took on a more intensive color as she seemed more interested in disclosing her sexual fantasies with her therapist and to act seductively with him.”
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“She expressed pleasure that her friend was having problems in the maternal role, yet she worried that she had betrayed her friend.”
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“She feared that she had violated a boundary and, without much understanding, grew increasingly angry toward her friend.”
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“As she felt evermore distant from the surviving members of her family, her feelings turned increasingly to anger and rage, but this time she was able to express these feelings in the therapy.”
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“yet, like the good-enough mother, sufficient good and caring feelings have been emanating from the therapist to cause the patient to remember him.”
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“In the course of therapy described in this paper, we suggest that all three elements of resistance are at work.However, they are only partly at work and for circumscribed periods.”
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- Not matchedcites Etchegoyen (8) 8. Etchegoyen R H (1991). The fundam entals o f psychoanalytic technique (Ch.58, pp. 764-770). London: Karnac Books.
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“She began to work on the reasons for breaking off the therapy, understanding that angry feelings would lead to her rejection by her therapist, identifying with her lost, bad sister and probably her dead mother, so that she had to leave prior to her therapist rejecting her.”
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“At first sight, each resem bled a classical impasse.”
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- Not matchedcites Schwaber (1) 1. Schwaber E A (1995).The psychoanalyst's mind: From listening to interpretation: A clinical report. International Journal o f Psychoanalysis, 76,271-281.
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kantrowitz (2) 2. Kantrowitz J L (1992). The analyst's style and its impact on the analytic process: Overcoming a patient-analyst stalemate. Journal o f The American Psychoanalytic Association, 40, 169-194. source
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“It was a core theme in the work between Dora and Freud that focussed on the father-daughter relationship; that is, her conflicts around her love and hate for the friend of the family, Herr K and her father.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [4] 4. Muslin H, and Gill M (1978). Transference in the Dora case. Journal o f the American Pychoanalytic Association, 26,311-328. source
- Not matchedcites [5] 5. Freud S (1905). Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria. Standard edition, 7, 3-122.
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“His interest in the erotic transference kept him from wanting to understand further her anger toward him, perhaps for agreeing to allow her to violate the boundary between her friend and herself, betraying her friend and her internal representation of the friend.”
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“Perhaps the leaving was, in fact, a part of this process, so that she could achieve a better sense of relatedness with the therapist by departing on her own initiative; somewhat as the adolescent runs away from home, only to return to a better or more intimate reconciliation with the loved parent.”
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“Possibly there was a gap in the theoretical understanding of the therapist to this aspect of the core conflict of the patient and his work with the resistance of the patient.”
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“In other words, the patient was trying to tell him one thing and he was listening to something else, something in himself.”
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“The patient initially presented as a young adolescent, progressing to adulthood by testing erotic boundaries in the transference with her therapist in ageappropriate ways, given that it was for the first time in her life.”
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In the paper
§ Impasse or Pseudo-impasse in the Psychotherapy of an Inhibited Writer > B IO G R A P H IC A L SKETC H O F TH E PATIENT
“She has a half-sister, eight years older, from her father's first marriage”
§ Impasse or Pseudo-impasse in the Psychotherapy of an Inhibited Writer > D IS C U SS IO N
“the search by the patient for her lost step-sister”
Citations
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Clinical and Theoretical Aspects of Enactment
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Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Psychoanalytic Enactment: A Systematic Review
Severo, C. T., Laskoski, P. B., Teche, S. P., Bassols, A. M. S., Saldanha, R. F., Wellausen, R. S., Wageck, A. A. R., Costa, C. P. D., Rebouças, D. B., Padoan, C. S., et al. (2018) · British Journal of Psychotherapy · doi:10.1111/bjp.12386 · Cited by 3
Psychoanalytic enactments: how psychoanalysts understand, identify and work through enactments
Severo, C. T., Nunes, M. L. T., & Eizirik, C. L. (2019) · Revista Brasileira de Psicoterapia · doi:10.5935/2318-0404.20190008
Metadata
- Authors
- Burnstein, L. J., & Cheifetz, P.
- Affiliations
- Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (CA)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Venue
- American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 74-81
- ISSN
- 0002-9564 (ISSN-L)
- 2575-6559
- OpenAlex
- W38725376
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Psychotherapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Keywords
- psychoanalytic psychotherapy, therapeutic impasse, enactment, treatment discontinuation, writer's block, sexual inhibition, fear of criticism, grief, parental conflict, therapeutic relationship, developmental stages
- MeSH terms
- Acting Out, Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Conflict, Psychological, Countertransference, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Models, Psychological, Professional-Patient Relations, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Transference, Psychology, Writing, Panic Disorder
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