The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis

Judy Kantrowitz, Judy Leopold Kantrowitz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367483500
• eBook ISBN: 9781000062441
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Forewords by Theodore Jacobs and Donnel Stern

The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis is a compilation of Judy Kantrowitz's previously published papers on the patient-analyst "match" and its effect on the process and outcome of psychoanalysis.

The match between patient and analyst places attention on the dynamic effect of interactions of character and conflict of both participants on the process that evolves between them—a spectrum of compatibility and incompatibility that is relevant to the analytic work. Classical psychoanalysis had been viewed as a "one-person" enterprise, with one analyst interchangeable with another. Analysts' experiences of countertransference reactions were viewed as unresolved conflicts, reasons to return to personal treatment, not inevitable and potentially informative about the current analytic work. This view began to shift in the 1980s, with Judy Kantrowitz's work contributing to the development of the recognition that psychoanalysis was a "two-person" process. In this collection of her most significant papers, Kantrowitz explores the importance of the match, which refers to observable styles, attitudes and personal characteristics that may be rooted in residual and unanalyzed conflicts, triggered in any patient-analyst pair. Match is neither a predictive nor static concept. Rather it refers to the unfolding transaction that itself that may shift and change during the course of analytic work.

Pulling together the history of the shift in theory from the one-person to two-person understanding of the psychoanalytic enterprise, The Role of the Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to contemporary psychoanalysts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The role of the patient-analyst “match” in the outcome of psychoanalysis
• 2 The analyst’s style and its impact on the analytic process: overcoming a patient-analyst stalemate
• 3 Impasses in psychoanalysis: overcoming resistance in situations of stalemate
• 4 The uniqueness of the patient-analyst pair: approaches for elucidating the analyst’s role
• 5 The beneficial aspects of the patient-analyst match
• 6 Appreciation of the importance of the patient-analyst “match”: Clara Thompson
• 7 The triadic match: the interactive effect of supervisor, candidate, and patient
• 8 The external observer and the lens of the patient-analyst match
• 9 A different perspective on the therapeutic process: the impact of the patient on the analyst
• 10 The role of the preconscious in psychoanalysis
• 11 The patient-analyst match in a second analysis when a patient returns
• 12 Reflections on mortality: a patient faces death; an analyst grieves
• 13 The analyst: disabled and enabled by what’s personal
• Appendix: follow-up of psychoanalysis five to ten years after termination: the relation between the resolution of the transference and the patient-analyst match
• References
• Index