The evolution of the internal dialogue during the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process

From: American Journal of Psychotherapy | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

This article illustrates curative changes occurring in psychoanalytic psychotherapy by developing the internal dialogue in the mind. By the internal dialogue, I mean the internalization of the therapy process during the recurrent therapy sessions so that the external dialogue between therapist and patient becomes the corresponding internal structure of the patient. In this way, there is a development of the patient's capacity to identify himself and the therapist as separate, sentient, thinking, and reflecting individuals, who have a free internal world of their own. The evolution of the ...

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