Corrective emotional experience revisited1

Alexander adopted several analytic ideas from Ferenczi, including the desire to make analysis as efficient as possible, the relative unimportance of neutrality in the analyst, the importance of flexible analytic technique and of countertransference as an instrument to understand the patient, and the...

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Published in:International journal of psychoanalysis 2010-10, Vol.91 (5), p.1272-1275
Main Author: McCarthy, Megan E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotions
Psychoanalysis
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Summary:Alexander adopted several analytic ideas from Ferenczi, including the desire to make analysis as efficient as possible, the relative unimportance of neutrality in the analyst, the importance of flexible analytic technique and of countertransference as an instrument to understand the patient, and the conveyance of such reactions in an emotional message to the patient. [...] Haynal wonders why, given that Alexander's notion of providing a corrective emotional experience was ultimately not unorthodox, Alexander's ideas caused such intellectual turmoil in the analytic community.
ISSN:0020-7578
1745-8315
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00345.x