Self Creation

Part Two Clinical Applications

Having delineated a model of psychoanalytic therapy designed to help the patient create new components of the self in PartOne, we now turn to the application of this paradigm to specific clinical pictures. The syndromes chosen are not meant to represent an exhaustive list of problems to which this approach can be applied; nor is it assumed that the clinical strategy advocated here can be used to ameliorate the symptoms of all patients who fit into these categories. Four common clinical syndromes were chosen because they are likely to be familiar to most practicing analytic therapists and because the model has been effectively used to diminish symptoms in patients whose problems fit these categories. Somatic symptoms, ...