Abstract
The Authors outline the history of the systematization of psychoanalytic therapy and report on the recent development of a new Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy protocol for depression and anxiety disorders.
Highlights
The Authors outline the history of the systematization of psychoanalytic therapy and report on the recent development of a new Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy protocol for depression and anxiety disorders
From the time he was first developing psychoanalysis, Freud tried to systematize its method in a series of papers on technique
The main goal of The Development of Psychoanalysis–the book he wrote with Otto Rank in 1924, which can be seen as the prototype psychoanalytic manuals–was to advocate for a more systematic use of the analyst’s subjectivity [4]
Summary
From the time he was first developing psychoanalysis, Freud tried to systematize its method in a series of papers on technique. By his own admission, he could only give an incomplete set of recommendations about what an analyst “should not do” and left the task of making positive suggestions about “what to do” to his case reports, the personal analysis, and the supervision of the youngers’ case material by senior psychoanalysts. [...] As true as what you say about “tact” is, this admission seems to me to be all the more questionable in this form All those who have no tact will see in this a justification of arbitrariness, i.e., of the subjective factor [1]. The history of time-limited treatments and the systematization of psychoanalysis have been closely related, since a time-limited treatment is much easier to systematize [5]
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