WHEN INTERVENTIONS MAKE AN IMPACT: An Empirical Investigation of Analyst's Communications and Patient's Productivity

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dc.authoridKAYA, Heysem/0000-0001-7947-5508|Cavdar, Alev/0000-0002-2899-4727
dc.authorwosidKAYA, Heysem/V-4493-2019
dc.authorwosidCavdar, Alev/JLL-8856-2023
dc.contributor.authorVegas, Monica
dc.contributor.authorHalfon, Sibel
dc.contributor.authorCavdar, Alev
dc.contributor.authorKaya, Heysem
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:56:56Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:56:56Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractPsychoanalysis can be thought of as a scene that is created by the analyst, the patient and the analytic work. The work comprises the interactional patterns of the dyad which evolve over time to create new possibilities for functioning of the patient. Taking this framework as a starting point, this study presents an empirically based investigation of the psychoanalytic process, paying close attention to the interplay between the analyst's interventions and the patient's linguistic productivity. The measures used assessed 2 dimensions: (a) variables coding the nature of the therapist's interventions (explorations, linking interventions, interpretations); and (b) variables assessing the patient's linguistic productivity as affected by her cognitive-affective states (use of repetition, level of symbolization and emotional engagement as measured by referential activity). Using a single-case design with a mixed quantitative/qualitative methodology, these measures were applied to psychoanalytically coherent segments of the sessions. Quantitative results showed significant differences between the type of intervention used by the analyst and patient's preceding or ensuing linguistic productivity. It was found that the analyst is significantly more likely to make interventions with exploratory functions, which have a greater disorganizing potential, when the patient is at a level of functioning where she can handle the inherent tension derived from the exploration of conflict-laden representations. Moreover, the analyst is significantly more likely to make a linking intervention- predicted to bring together different elements of the patient's representations in new ways that allow for a progressive reorganization of the patient's internal landscape-when the patient is adhering to the fundamental rule, a good working alliance, and the potential for symbolization and discovery is within reach. These results provide new insight into the way the psychoanalytic process operates bringing an empirical eye to the mix of controversy around questions of technique in psychoanalysis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/a0039020
dc.identifier.endpage607en_US
dc.identifier.issn0736-9735
dc.identifier.issn1939-1331
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84942608508en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage580en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1037/a0039020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8911
dc.identifier.volume32en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000361884100002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEducational Publishing Foundation-American Psychological Assocen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPsychoanalytic Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectTherapeutic Processen_US
dc.subjectAnalyst's İnterventionsen_US
dc.subjectRepetitionen_US
dc.subjectReferential Activityen_US
dc.subjectBrief Psychodynamic Therapyen_US
dc.subjectSingle-Case Researchen_US
dc.subjectAnalytic Processen_US
dc.subjectTransference Interpretationsen_US
dc.subjectPsychotherapyen_US
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen_US
dc.subjectAllianceen_US
dc.subjectTimeen_US
dc.subjectExperienceen_US
dc.subjectRepetitionen_US
dc.titleWHEN INTERVENTIONS MAKE AN IMPACT: An Empirical Investigation of Analyst's Communications and Patient's Productivity
dc.typeArticle

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