PMID: 11907602Mar 22, 2002Paper

Clinical inferential process in psychoanalysis

Vertex : revista argentina de psiquiatriá
A Leibovich De DuarteF Torricelli

Abstract

Despite the highest importance of studying the inferential process in psychotherapy, few systematic studies deal with the ways in which psychotherapists work with the material offered by their patients and construct clinical hypotheses about it. The purpose of this study is to present empirical findings about similarities and differences in the way psychoanalysts from different theorethical orientations and level of clinical experience produce their clinical inferences. The sample includes 20 psychoanalysts selected according to their theoretical orientation (Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysts) and their level of clinical experience (less than ten years and more than twenty years of clinical practice). They listened to the same tape-recorded first session of psychotherapy and were asked to report their clinical hypotheses, clues, and hunches about the material. They also answered a questionnaire about their inferential work. Freudian psychoanalysts produced more single hypothesis and the same number of combined hypothesis than lacanian psychoanalysts. The level of experience was a factor when it came to producing combined hypothesis, no matter their theoretical framework. 90 per cent of the interviewed made their first clinic...Continue Reading

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