Power games : influence, persuasion, and indoctrination in psychotherapy training / edited by Richard Raubolt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raubolt, Richard R. (Richard Raleigh)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Study and teaching.

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis--Study and teaching.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapists--Training of.

Psychotherapists.

Psychoanalysts--Training of.

Psychoanalysts.

Control (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis--education.

Interpersonal Relations.

Power, Psychological.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis--education.

Interpersonal Relations.

Power, Psychological.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2006]

Summary:

Over the course of his own training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Richard Raubolt came to see that advanced training is more often than not plagued by authoritarian practices, some subtle and many pronounced. It is the contention of Raubolt and his contributors that these practices instill fear and foster blind obedience to the favored proclivities of the leaders of the training institute. In turn, this subservience, which seeps into the therapeutic relationship, prevents both the training candidates and their prospective patients from developing creative, authentic, and meaningful experiences.

This collection features a highly nuanced and comprehensively developed psychoanalytic understanding of the use and misuse of power, authority, status, and control, operating in many traditional and nontraditional training experiences. New supervisory and training models based on empathy, respect for subjective experiences, and democratic principles are proposed as an alternative to the abusive practices so powerfully described in this book.

Contents:

A therapist's initiatory journey through submission in a coercive training program / Annette Richard

One wife's story: a relational systems perspective / Linda Raubolt and Doris Brothers

Trauma sketches, translations and a dialogue of love: a personal response to L. Raubolt and Brothers / Richard Raubolt

Narcissistic authoritarianism in psychoanalysis / Daniel Shaw

Discussion: vulnerability, charisma, and trauma in the training experience: four personal odysseys / Marty Livingston

Covert methods of interpersonal control / Theodore Dorpat

On cutting the grass, psychoanalytic education, and the interweave of ideology, power, and knowledge: an historical and philosophical perspective / Patrick B. Kavanaugh

Institutional cloning: mimetism in psychoanalytic training / Michael Lariviáere

Coerced discipleship: indoctrination masquerading as training in psychotherapy / Richard Raubolt

Discussion of the chapters by Drs. Dorpat, Kavanaugh, Lariviáere, and Raubolt / Molyn Leszcz

Primum non nocere : a supervisor's odyssey / Paula B. Fuqua

Clinical supervision: a process of self-reflexivity in the development of therapeutic competence / Conrad Lecomte

Authority relations in psychodynamic supervision: a contemporary view / Joan E. Sarnat

Effective and efficient supervision: doing it in group / Arthur A. Gray

Toward a quadro-partite training model, or from identification-relations (of power) to introjection-relations (of love): the case of identification with the aggressor / Gershon J. Molad and Judith E. Vida

Individual and group supervision, consultation, and autobiographical dialogues between analysts and colleagues / Irene Harwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1590511735

9781590511732

OCLC:

64585730