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Reflexionen über eine zeitgemäße psychoanalytische Metatheorie

Réflexions sur une métathéorie moderne de la psychanalyse

Reflections on a contemporary psychoanalytic metatheory

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Freud and later Rapaport and Gill proposed metapsychological points of view they hoped would provide analysts with the means to organize the major findings in the field. I propose an open dynamic systems theory as a possible metatheory and five areas of inquiry that can be used to organize, describe, and conceptualize the specifics of any psychic happening. I illustrate the use of the five areas of inquiry with a clinical vignette.

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In der Hoffnung, Psychoanalytikern ein Instrument in die Hand zu geben, um die wichtigsten Ergebnisse ihres Arbeitsgebietes strukturieren zu können, haben Freud, und später Rapaport und Gill, eine metapsychologische Perspektive entworfen. Um die Besonderheiten jedes psychischen Ereignisses zu strukturieren, zu beschreiben und zu konzeptualisieren, schlage ich fünf Untersuchungsfelder einer offenen dynamischen Systemtheorie als Metatheorie vor. Die Anwendbarkeit der fünf Untersuchungsfelder skizziere ich im Rahmen eines klinischen Fallbeispiels.

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Lichtenberg, J. Reflexionen über eine zeitgemäße psychoanalytische Metatheorie. Psychotherapie Forum 17, 3–8 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00729-009-0272-7

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