Different Kinds of Folks may Need Different Kinds of Strokes: The Effect of Patients' Characteristics on Therapeutic Process and Outcome

Autor:	Irit Felsen, Sidney J. Blatt
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	Clinical Psychology Denial Psychotherapist media_common.quotation_subject Personality style Psychology of self Human sexuality Interpersonal communication Psychology Undoing Autonomy Psychopathology media_common
Zdroj:	Psychotherapy Research. 3:245-259
ISSN:	1468-4381 1050-3307
DOI:	10.1080/10503309312331333829
Popis:	In response to recent discussion of the importance of identifying theoretically derived patient characteristics to be included in the study of patient-therapy (PT) and patient-outcome (PO) interactions in psychotherapy research, this paper presents a model of two broad configurations of personality style and psychopathology that appear to be related to aspects of therapeutic process and outcome. Anaclitic psychopathologies are disorders primarily preoccupied with issues of interpersonal relatedness such as trust, caring, intimacy and sexuality, and which use primarily avoidant defenses (e.g., denial and repression) to cope with psychological conflict and stress. In contrast, introjective psychopathologies are disorders primarily concerned with establishing and maintaining a viable sense of self, ranging from a basic sense of separateness, to concerns about autonomy and control, to issues of self-worth, and that use primarily counteractive defenses (e.g., projection, doing and undoing, intellectualization,...
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