By Steven T. Levy

A scientific advent to interpretation as a technical healing ability.

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Although there is some truth to all this, a recommendation for treatment without a summary interpretation of what the therapist thinks about the patient's problems has many negative consequences. First and foremost, the therapist introducing an interpretation sets the tone of the treatment process. The therapist will make explicit, in words, some The Treatment Recommendation, the First Interpretation 13 area of understanding about the patient, which both therapist and the patient will henceforth include in their working knowledge of the patient's psychological life, knowledge that both will seek to expand and understand more fully.

Saunders Company. This textbook is a widely read introduction to interviewing technique and to psychodynamic formulations about typical groups of psychiatric patients. It is particularly useful in its suggestions about interpretive interventions most appropriate for different clinical problems and accurately portrays in simple language the kinds of interactions the therapist can expect when encountering patients with various kinds of pathology. Stone, L. (1961). The Psychoanalytic Situation. New York: Inter- national Universities Press, Inc.

Wishes, fantasies, memories] out of awareness and thus unavailable for modification. Before discussing how to interpret problems in free associating, it should be stressed that although this chapter will focus on introducing the patient to the best ways of utilizing the varied data of treatment-here, free associating and its problems-the free association process should be monitored throughout the course of treatment. In fact, whenever things seem to bog down, the therapist should ask himself whether the patient is continuing to free associate and should explore with the patient any difficulties in this area.

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