Therapeutic Dialogue, Insight and Reduction of Anxious-Depressive Symptoms in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Dialogue and Insights Occurrence
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v32i120.945Keywords:
Insight, change process, significant events, symptomsAbstract
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The objective of the study was to examine the characteristics of the therapeutic dialogue generating changes in the consultant's ability to obtain insights and its relationship with anxious-depressive symptoms, during the first 16 sessions of open-ended psychoanalytic psychotherapy, once per week. The transcripts of the recorded sessions of three consultants were encoded using checklists; and, the occurrences of cognitive and emotional insights, changes in anxious-depressive symptomatology, and "significant events" (Greenberg, 1986) where emotional insights occurred, were then analyzed. There was a reduction in symptoms, correlations between increased cognitive insights and decreased symptoms, and a sequence of the change process in the consultant’s ability to generate emotional insights. As a conclusion, it is highlighted the intertwining of intrapsychic and relational processes, in a sequence of phases (synchrony-elaboration-resolution) of the therapeutic dialogue, promoting the consultant's ability to accumulate and deepen his self-understanding of conflict themes, which is related to symptomatic relief.
Key words: Insight, change process, significant events, symptoms
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