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Neutrality? Equidistant? Value-commitment? Se;f-revealing?Conversion?

[@doncarveth]

A good training in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy program should train one to work analytically. I think the differences have more to do with the intensity and depth of the work. Sometimes a fully trained psychoanalyst seeing a patient four times a week on the couch may actually not be establishing as much of an analytic process as someone seeing a patient twice a week sitting up. When can I have an analytic process with the patient sitting up once per week. I’m not saying frequency or the coach doesn’t matter; I’m saying that there are multiple factors. Not being able to call oneself a psychoanalyst as a member of the IPA doesn’t mean when may not be practising psychoanalysis; many fully trained IPA analysts may not be practising psychoanalysis even if their patient is laying down four times a week. I hope that helps.

[@doncarveth]

Thanks Jonas, that’s correct. There was a miss spelling that I corrected and then upload it again.

[@mirejpaunovic722]

Thank you for this knowledge, as a young therapyst I appreciate it a lot! I'm curious, do you think that Margaret Mahler perspectives are relevant for psychoanalysis? Should I study her work?

[@doncarveth]

Yes, provided you realize that the earliest artistic and symbiotic phases have been rendered know and void by the infant research, which shows there is no oneness at the beginning.

[@mirejpaunovic722]

@@doncarveth Thanks for the fast response. Margaret Mahler and Melanie Klein have a lot in commom, yet there are striking differences. Could you make a video on that and their impliciation on practice?

[@doncarveth]

@@mirejpaunovic722 that’s a good idea although I’ve kind of addressed some of the issues in passing in other videos. The difference mainly concerns Melanie Kay’s rejection of primary narcissism or oneness at the beginning.

[@mirejpaunovic722]

@@doncarveth Thanks again! I think that similarities are interesting between individuation and object constancy, and depressive position and whole object

[@doncarveth]

@@mirejpaunovic722 yes

[@jackdawcaw4514]

Dear mr Carveth, I am interested in your perspective on the following. You spoke I think in your previous video on the difference between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and somewhat the actual lack of difference -- assuming one is trained clasically as an analyst. What if one is a psychologist trained in a 4 year clinical psychoanalytic psychotherapy program that does not make one a psychoanalyst but a psychoanalytic psychotherapist? Is this an important difference? I am hoping to enroll in a clinical program of this kind this year, hence the question.

[@bradhexumOSM]

Strong work, Doc!

[@jonashjerpe7421]

Don, you apparently uploaded the same video once again. Just for your info in case some mistake occured.

[@nononouh]

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[@UnlimitedMullets]

I’m an LCSW and am very interested in practicing psychoanalytic therapy. Your advice to study the variety of psychoanalytic thought reached me. Thank you, Doctor.

[@doncarveth]

Good, i’m glad. Best of luck to you.