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Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomena is employed as a means of further understanding the effect of medicine and the medication-giving process itself. Particular facets examined include the "soothing" function of medication, the placebo effect, and medication compliance, as well as countertransference difficulties encountered in administering the medicine. Medication as a transitional object is viewed largely as a creation along the self-object interface, with the "potential space" between patient and therapist recapitulating aspects of the original dyad. This usage of medicine as a transitional object, or its ultimate abandonment as such, is presented in terms of the vicissitudes of internal object relations, with clinical case examples to clarify particular issues.
温尼科特的过渡现象概念被用作进一步理解药物作用及给药过程本身的一种方式。所考察的具体方面包括药物的“安抚”功能、安慰剂效应、药物依从性，以及给药过程中遇到的反移情困难。药物作为一个过渡性客体在很大程度上被视为自我 - 客体界面上的一种创造物，患者与治疗师之间的“潜在空间”再现了原始二元关系的各个方面。药物作为过渡性客体的这种用法，或者其最终被如此摒弃的情况，是根据内部客体关系的变迁来呈现的，并伴有临床案例以阐明具体问题。
