Significance of the gestalt, primary, and family therapy for psychoanalysis
Sperling, E.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse 24(2): 169-179
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-5613 PMID: 645240 Document Number: 138118
The technical therapeutic premises and the application of gestalt-, primal- and familytherapy are investigated. It is concluded, that these premises and application attempt to do justice to the change of the patients and to the widely varied offer of serious syndromes rather than to psychoanalytic routine by "Uberinvestierung" in the patient. Not only the insistence on ego-psychology but also the emphasis on transference as the only therapeutic medium are viewed critically. The confrontation is in competition with the interpretion; The acting out can help to intensify experience. As the most important result for psychoanalytic work appears the conclusion "ex omissione".