POR QUÉ RECONSIDERAR EL ENCUADRE PSICOANALÍTICO TRADICIONAL. UNA MIRADA RELACIONAL

Abstract

Facing the drive conflict theory, the relational turn in psychoanalysis, which has emerged during the last two decades in the past century, has consolidated different schools of thought. These agree on a shared core idea: our mind is created, functions,becomes ill, and recovers relationally. This constitutes a metapsychological paradigm shift.Nevertheless, the classic clinical approach has been conveyed as if it were a mantra so much so that to be considered a clinical psychoanalist you should follow their rules. This paper aims to make visible three substantial elements for its modification:the incidence and consideration of the context, the relevance of emotions, and the qualitative importance of the therapist-patient bond as a change agent. Faced with the traditional technical myths of neutrality, abstinence, and anonymity, there is a need fora different “therapeutic receving matrix”: an empathic perspective, a dialogic position, a warm, humble, humanist and equitable position, as well as an hermeneutic of trust from the psychotherapist in this particular dyad created with each patient.