Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession

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• That's a very common and firmly held idea," he said. "The idea that what happens in analysis would have happened anyway-that people 'naturally' change as life goes on, and analysts take credit for changes they aren't responsible for. I've had thoughts like that myself about my analysis, and have had to stop myself. I've had to remind myself of how rigidly determined our lives are-how predictable and repetitive, how encrusted and hardened, how resistant to change. If we changed as easily as it's claimed, there wouldn't be people going into analysis at forty and fifty; they would all have changed 'naturally' by then into wise, mature, moderately contented people. A person who goes into analysis in his twenties, as many people are doing today, can't see this as well as a person who goes into ... (查看原文)

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• Another story tells of an analyst who decided to do some follow-up work. He telephoned two women patients who had been in analysis with him five years previously. They were comparable cases: both had had stormy, tempestuous analyses, with all kinds of Sturm und Drang and very emotional, intense transferences. Now, five years later, one woman said, 'Doctor, every night before I go to bed I thank my lucky stars that I had you as my analyst. The analysis with you has changed my life. Not a day goes by that I don't think about what I learned from you, and apply it. You are an ever-living presence in my daily life, and I think of you with something like reverence.' The other woman-who had had just as tempestuous and emotional and intense an analysis-said, 'You know, every so often I think about... (查看原文)

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