"Vafan har jag ställt till med!" Psykoterapeuter berättar om konflikter i det terapeutiska möte: En kvalitativ studie
(2012) PPTP06 20121Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what kinds of conflicts therapists and patients struggle with in a psychotherapeutic encounter. Eight experienced psychodynamic psychotherapists were interviewed using an open ended approach and a narrative method. The therapists were asked to tell about memories from their professional life as psychotherapists and memories from being patients in psychotherapy. 30 narratives were identified in the materials which were analyzed using a hermeneutic phenomenological framework with the purpose of finding major themes of conflict. The dichotomic pairs faith-doubt and guilt-reparation were found to be the most frequently occurring themes in the stories and these were discussed from a... (More)
- The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what kinds of conflicts therapists and patients struggle with in a psychotherapeutic encounter. Eight experienced psychodynamic psychotherapists were interviewed using an open ended approach and a narrative method. The therapists were asked to tell about memories from their professional life as psychotherapists and memories from being patients in psychotherapy. 30 narratives were identified in the materials which were analyzed using a hermeneutic phenomenological framework with the purpose of finding major themes of conflict. The dichotomic pairs faith-doubt and guilt-reparation were found to be the most frequently occurring themes in the stories and these were discussed from a psychoanalytical and an ideohistorical perspective. 14 narratives were selected as illustrative in the study. The main conclusions derived from this study are that apart from expressing devotion to their task, psychotherapists engage in thinking about guilt over their own mistakes, doubts and shortcomings when they recall experiences from the past both as patients and as clinicians. This can be interpreted as related to the tension between one relational-oriented and one interpretation-oriented tradition, inherent in psychoanalytic theory and practice. (Less)
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- author
- Starup, Anna LU and Gustafsson Kraft, Frida LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- PPTP06 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- conflict, narrative method, Keywords: Hermeneutic, psychotherapeutic relationship.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 3167330
- date added to LUP
- 2012-11-23 13:07:04
- date last changed
- 2012-11-23 13:07:04
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