Author: Serani D.
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0022-0116
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Vol.32, Iss.2-3, 2002-01, pp. : 229-241
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Abstract
The merging of medication and analysis has been more widely endorsed in recent years. However, the issue of the analyst needing pharmacotherapy and how its use presses on the analytic frame has not been considered. This essay will look at how the analyst's need for medication threads into the structure of treatment. Issues of stigma and shame triggered by medication use are discussed, as well as the treatment consideration of self-disclosure as an intervention. The author offers both objective and subjective data on this subject, and includes a clinical case example to illustrate how self-disclosure of medication status can offer greater degrees of freedom in a patient's analysis.
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