Some notes on the role of development in psychoanalytic assistance, differentiation, and regression.
This paper outlines the role of development assistance as a therapeutic measure within the normal psychoanalytic technique. Freud's definition of assistance "that the analyst gives the patient ... the conscious anticipatory idea to grasp the unconscious material." This proposal is elaborated in the context of developmental differentiation and regression.
Neubauer
Peter B
PB
New York University, USA.
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept