Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ψυχοδυναμική Ψυχοθεραπεία σε Ιατρικό ΠλαίσιοLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Supervisors info:
Βασλαματζής Γρηγόριος, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιεροδιακόνου-Μπένου Ιωάννα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης
Τζινιέρη-Κοκκώση Μαρία, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η συμμετοχή του ψυχοθεραπευτή ως υποκείμενο στην ψυχοδυναμική ψυχοθεραπεία
Translated title:
The therapist's participation as a subject in psychodynamic psychotherapy
Summary:
This thesis examines the importance of the therapist's subjectivity in the process of psychodynamic psychotherapy. This study comprises two parts, the theoretical and the clinical.
In the former, initially we carry out an extended review of the therapist’s approach development and the interaction between the therapist and the patient, since the beginning of the psychoanalysis up to the present day, with particular reference to the concepts of the subject and subjectivity, projective identification, intersubjectivity and the analytic third. The study then focuses on the question of the therapist’s subjectivity and its specific characteristics, and examines how their subjective experience, mental and bodily, is related to the therapeutic process.
In the latter, significant moments of interaction between the therapist and the patient are presented and examined from an intersubjective view. More specifically, events that took place during the therapeutic process, such as the loss of the office keys, the change of the room where the session was held and finally the fall of the therapist during the session, are considered to have special importance for this specific therapeutic interaction. Moreover, the importance of the therapist’s personal history and specific characteristics is studied in relation to the way they interact with the patient.
This is a qualitative research study, in which a literature research is performed and a case study is presented, in order to support its subject.
The aim of this study is to contribute to the ongoing scientific research on the understanding of the psychodynamic psychotherapy as an intersubjective process and to the further investigation of the importance of the therapist’s subjectivity within this process.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Analytic third, Projective identification, Bodily countertransference
