Dialectic polarities in the psychotherapeutic situation

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Gaetano Benedetti
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 10 P. 111-120 File size 501 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2014-001005
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A lecture given by Gaetano Benedetti (1920-2013) on May 23, 1963, in Milan at a training course on "Psychotherapy of schizophrenic psychoses", organized by the "Milan Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy" (that later took the name of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane), is reprinted. Benedetti discusses the dialectic polarities in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia regarding the following seven aspects: time; space; compensatory associations; task and symbolic realization; frankness vs. discretion; closeness vs. distance; authority.

Keywords: Psychotherapy of schizophrenia, dialectic polarities, time, space, compensatory associations, task, closeness

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Gaetano Benedetti, Relazione introduttiva: Dialettica della situazione psicoterapeutica in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 1/2014, pp 111-120, DOI: 10.3280/PU2014-001005