Hope, Dread, and Dignity When "Now for Next" Has Collapsed

This report draws on insights from contemporary Gestalt therapy and intersubjective psychoanalysis to examine the relationship between the felt sense of hope, dread, and dignity in a dialogic therapeutic process. Both schools of thought emphasize the relationship of hope and dread in the dialogic pr...

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Published in:The Humanistic psychologist 2020-12, Vol.48 (4), p.353-356
Main Author: Jacobs, Lynne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conversation
Coronavirus
Dignity
Fear
Gestalt Therapy
Hope
Human
Professional relationships
Psychoanalysis
Rehabilitation
Scott, Dread (artist)
Therapeutic Processes
Trauma
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Summary:This report draws on insights from contemporary Gestalt therapy and intersubjective psychoanalysis to examine the relationship between the felt sense of hope, dread, and dignity in a dialogic therapeutic process. Both schools of thought emphasize the relationship of hope and dread in the dialogic process, and this report explores working how a sense of dignity emerges from working with hope and dread dialogically. Hope and dread vacillate in the process of a therapy relationship as the patient reaches for their dignity through truthful, agentic dialogue. The restoration of dignity during the coronavirus shutdown process has moved from background to foreground in our therapeutic conversations.
ISSN:0887-3267
1547-3333
DOI:10.1037/hum0000222