Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (A Clinical Manual) || Learning to Reflect

✍ Scribed by Cabaniss, Deborah L.; Cherry, Sabrina; Douglas, Carolyn J.; Schwartz, Anna

• Book ID: 102684041
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470684712
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470711262.ch17

✦ Synopsis

Once we listen to the patient's sounds and silences, we process this data in order to understand its meanings. We call this multi-layered process ''reflecting.'' Reflecting helps us decide how to focus our listening and how and when to intervene.

Whether we are uncovering or supporting, we want to comment on material that is closest to the patient's conscious mind and that he/she will be able to listen to and use productively at that moment.

To understand what is closest to the patient's conscious mind, we use what we call the ''three choosing principles:'' 1. surface to depth 2. follow the affect