Negative Therapeutic Reaction (2013 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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April 12, 2013
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psychology in Seattle. I'm your host, Kirkonda, licensed therapist. It's just me today. |
| 0:07.4 | I thought I would dive into the negative therapeutic reaction. In my efforts to help therapists with their work, |
| 0:15.4 | I have investigated several topics related to treatment failure, and the negative therapeutic reaction was one of those |
| 0:22.3 | topics. But first, a little disclaimer. I am by no means a Freudian or psychoanalytic scholar. |
| 0:29.3 | As a psychodynamic therapist and professor, I have studied the history of psychoanalysis, |
| 0:34.6 | but not to the extent that would make me an expert. |
| 0:43.9 | Also, another disclaimer, I am in no way going to be able to summarize every nuance and tributary of this topic that I know of. Almost every topic related to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theory |
| 0:49.6 | has been expanded upon by many, many authors over, you know, the past 110 years or so. |
| 0:56.1 | Some of them are brilliant and some of them are strange and some of them are both and some |
| 1:00.4 | of them are not so brilliant or strange. |
| 1:03.3 | And so it's a complex area that is difficult to summarize very quickly. |
| 1:07.9 | But I will attempt to provide a useful summary. Okay, so, |
| 1:14.3 | um, so first off, I have a few questions for you. Is it possible for psychotherapy to always succeed? |
| 1:22.3 | If psychotherapy helps someone, then the therapist is likely to attribute that success to the |
| 1:26.7 | therapy or to the therapist, |
| 1:28.3 | him or herself. |
| 1:30.3 | But what if therapy doesn't work? |
| 1:32.3 | What if a client's symptoms get worse? |
| 1:34.3 | Treatment failure has been a source subject for therapist since the beginning of the profession. |
| 1:39.3 | It's rarely discussed. |
| 1:41.3 | Personally, I attribute this lack of discussion to the self-serving attitudes |
| 1:46.5 | of those in my field. It's so much easier to blame others when we fail, right? But before I get more |
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