title: Emotional Detachment of Partners and the Sanctity of the Relationship with the Analyst as the Most Powerful Curative Factor.
abstract: The relationship between partners and the analyst is considered the most basic means for healing in contemporary psychoanalytic theories and analyses. It also holds as one of the most fundamental phenomenon's of psychoanalysis, so it comes as no surprise that it has always been deliberated over as an object of great interest as well as immense controversy. This same relationship, mutually co-created by the analyst and each individual and partner in analysis, represents also the core of sanctity and sacred space in contemporary psychoanalysis.
authors.affiliation: Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. christian.gostecnik@guest.arnes.si.|Franciscan Family Institute, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. christian.gostecnik@guest.arnes.si.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5973-0145
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gostečnik
authors.affiliation: Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.|Franciscan Family Institute, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Tanja Repič
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Slavič
authors.affiliation: Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.|Franciscan Family Institute, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Saša Poljak
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Lukek
authors.affiliation: Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.|Franciscan Family Institute, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pate
authors.affiliation: Department for Marital and Family Therapy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Poljanska cesta 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.|Franciscan Family Institute, Presernov trg 4, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cvetek
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Analytical creator of sacred space; Curative sacred space; Emotional separation; Relational family paradigm; Sacred relationship