title: Conceptualizing transformations in child and adult psychoanalysis.
abstract: A study group on Conceptualizing Transformation in Child and Adult Analysis focused on a particular kind of change in analysis, that of transformational change, a change in organization that could not be predicted from what came before. We found that, based on careful presentations of four analytic cases, transformational or pre-transformational change did take place. A central intervening variable was the patient's development of a sense of agency. We tried to articulate the nature of the interventions leading to agency and ultimately to transformation. We added other new dimensions: an emphasis on construction in addition to reconstruction and a focus on the future.
authors.affiliation: New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Olesker
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lament
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*