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KMID : 0385320030140010028
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2003 Volume.14 No. 1 p.28 ~ p.40
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Current Trends of Psychoanalysis
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Yu Jae-Hak
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Abstract
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In this article, the author considered current trends of psychoanalysis in America after the 1980’s by discussing seven different subtitles. These subtitles are never mutually exclusive, but act as classifications for helping the author explain. The seven current trends of psychoanalysis are as follows: the expansion of developmental theories; the importance of countertransference and interaction in understanding the patients; greater attention on external factors compared to internal factors; emphasis on various studies about psychoanalysis; the shift of the importance from transference neurosis to analytic process in analytic practice; more humanistic analysts; and more emphasis on the conflict-free ego functions. The author also argued that these current trends might not actually be new changes, but are the differences between the thoughts on psychoanalysis he had in Korea in the 1980s and the thoughts he had after training in America in the 1990s. The author discussed the biggest change as the de-idealization of Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. Psychoanalytic theories are changing from Freud’s theories to several other theories, such as the theory of infant development, the importance of countertransference, interaction, and analytic process in understanding the patients. Another general current trend of psychoanalysis is taking the practical line, which pursues things close to reality of psychoanalytic treatment rather than being bound by theories. However, the author emphasized that there were no changes in the propositions that the theory of the unconscious is the root of psychoanalysis, and the object of psychoanalysis is anintra-psychic structure rather than interpersonal relations.
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KEYWORD
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Psychotheapy, Current trends
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