Posted on Sep 14, 2015 in Uncategorized |
Empathy at the center of self psychological treatment? Revolutionary! Intersubjective Self Psychologists aspire to understand the patient from within her or his own world. When we do this things begin to make sense and we can understand motivations and resistances, interpersonal problems and symptoms in a way that can more deeply reach our patients; the result is a greater potential to create change. Although many psychoanalysts use empathy to understand their patients, the self psychologist focuses on it, speaking from within the patient’s world. It is the goal of the self psychologist to empathize with the patient–more than making the unconscious conscious, working with resistance, or resolving the transference. All of these things are a part of an intersubjective self psychological treatment, but they flow from the analyst’s focus on empathy.
Please join us for this talk explaining the prominence and curative capacities of empathy in Self Psychology.
Posted by Karen Roser and Joyce McFadden
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