Abstract
The process of psychoanalytic change can seem intangible. One way that psychoanalytic therapists from the Object-Relations school conceptualise the desired change in therapy is a change from the predomination of the infantile Paranoid-Schizoid Position to the predomination of the Depressive Position in the thoughts and feelings of their client. We used the Personal Relatedness Profile (Hobson et al., 1998) to rate whether six people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities presented with lower ratings of paranoid-schizoid functioning over the course of their treatment. We found that the ratings for co-therapists were surprisingly reliable, with a measureable and significant reduction in ‘paranoid-schizoid’ functioning observed across the year of therapy. We contend that psychoanalytic processes are quantifiable and central to lasting personal change for the better.
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