Review article

THE THERAPIST BETWEEN PRESENCE AND INTRUSION

Ester Jadreško orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-0709 ; psychology professor, group analyst, member of IGA Zagreb, private practice

Abstract

The specificity of psychoanalytic psychotherapy of narcissistic patients is determined by the development of primary narcissistic structures that represent the basis of the ability of confrontation with the separation experience and the world of object relations. Starting
from Kohut’s theory, in the realization of this therapeutic task the therapist starts from the position of presence as self-object to the presence as object. In this view is presented the specificity of the therapeutic relation that follows these changes of the therapeutic positions and the risks that it entails. Sensitivity in this therapeutic process is determined by the time of dealing with aspects of the object relation, where such a premature therapeutic experience
can be seen by a narcisstic patient as intrusive and therefore risk the interruption of the therapeutic relationship.

Keywords

narcissistic personality structure; Kohut; self-object; object relation

Hrčak ID:

177400

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/177400

Publication date:

7.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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