Ogden Thomas H
Personal and supervising analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Int J Psychoanal. 2025 Jun;106(3):473-488. doi: 10.1080/00207578.2024.2447708. Epub 2025 Jul 31.
The author posits that for an analytic treatment to be alive and effective, the analyst must invent psychoanalysis with each patient. In responding to the question, "What does it mean to invent psychoanalysis with each patient?" the analyst must first ask himself, "What does it mean to become a psychoanalyst?" and "What is it that defines psychoanalysis." Further, "What is distinctive about the practice of psychoanalysis?"In responding to these questions, it becomes apparent that what is definitive of psychoanalysis as a discipline and as a clinical practice are matters that each of us must come to on our own, and that the process of becoming a psychoanalyst is a highly personal endeavor that continues through one's years of practice.Becoming a psychoanalyst is not a distinction conferred by a psychoanalytic training program. Development of an analytic sensibility is built upon one's personal analysis, one's individual study of psychoanalysis, and one's clinical experience.The author presents clinical illustrations of some of the ways he, with each of his patients, invents a form of psychoanalysis unique to the two of them.
作者认为，要使精神分析治疗充满活力且行之有效，分析师必须针对每位患者创造精神分析。在回答“针对每位患者创造精神分析意味着什么？”这个问题时，分析师必须首先问自己：“成为一名精神分析师意味着什么？”以及“是什么定义了精神分析？”此外，“精神分析实践的独特之处是什么？”在回答这些问题时，显而易见的是，作为一门学科和一种临床实践，精神分析的决定性因素是我们每个人都必须独自得出的，而且成为一名精神分析师的过程是一项高度个人化的努力，会贯穿其多年的实践。成为一名精神分析师并非精神分析培训项目授予的一种身份。分析敏感性的培养建立在个人分析、对精神分析的个人研究以及临床经验之上。作者呈现了一些临床实例，展示了他如何与每位患者创造出一种属于他们两人的独特精神分析形式。
