Feb 12, 2015 14:40
9 yrs ago
English term

phase certainty

English Medical Psychology psychoanalitical training
Casement (2002) shows that currently some serious deviations in the training practices are taking place: too much
ideology, too much phase certainty, too many false selves in psychoanalytic candidates and
their teacher.

Discussion

Danila Moro (asker) Feb 12, 2015:
First of all, thanks to all of you. I don't think it refers to the psychosexual phases, since the discussion is on the training/didactic analysis and not on patients. It might then be that it's talking about the phases of the training process, that candidates are to sure of how it goes on, there is a too rigid determination of the different steps.
Charles Davis Feb 12, 2015:
Could be On the other hand, I was wondering whether it might refer to the theory of developmental phases. Excessive rigidity in this area is one of the things that has been criticised in psychoanalysis, where "process thinking" rather than "phase thinking" has become more prominent. The idea of phases (anal, oral, genital, oedipal, etc) goes back to Freud, of course. Maybe "phase certainty" is a propensity to be too rigid about this, fitting everyone into a preconceived schema, having too much unquestioning faith in the explanatory and diagnostic power of normative phase theory.
Tina Vonhof (X) Feb 12, 2015:
I agree, was just typing up a similar suggestion.
DLyons Feb 12, 2015:
This refers to Patrick Casement's "Learning from our Mistakes". My impression is that it means his willingness to change the process in response to patient reaction i.e. that he feels that there is too much rigidity/certainty in the phases of the analysis.

But I could easily be wrong!
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