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[Significance of the gestalt, primary, and family therapy for psychoanalysis]

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[Significance of the gestalt, primary, and family therapy for psychoanalysis]

Z Psychosom Med Psychoanal. 1978 Apr-Jun;24(2):169-79

Authors: Sperling E

The technical therapeutic premises and the application of gestalt-, primal- and familytherapy are investigated. It is concluded, that these premises and application attempt to do justice to the change of the patients and to the widely varied offer of serious syndromes rather than to psychoanalytic routine by "Uberinvestierung" in the patient. Not only the insistence on ego-psychology but also the emphasis on transference as the only therapeutic medium are viewed critically. The confrontation is in competition with the interpretion; The acting out can help to intensify experience. As the most important result for psychoanalytic work appears the conclusion "ex omissione".

PMID: 645240 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Tags: Gestalt Therapy · Mindwork · Psychotherapy