THE SEARCH FOR PSYCHIC TRUTHS.
Emphasizing psychic truths as the major domain of psychoanalysis, the author explores the complexity of defining such psychic truths. It is suggested that thinking of levels of psychic truths is the most useful approach. How to understand trauma and historical truth within this context is examined. The role of the analyst as aiding the search for psychic truths, rather than functioning as psychic "truth teller," is discussed within the context of paradigmatic changes in the psychoanalytic method that form an emerging common ground.
Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
Fred
F
Busch
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychic truth; analytic interaction; interpretation; intrapsychic conflict; memory; personal stories; trauma; unconscious truth