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KMID : 0385320050160010035
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2005 Volume.16 No. 1 p.35 ~ p.39
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A Hidden Resistance Relating to the Previous Therapist
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Kim Mi-Kyung
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Abstract
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A 38-year-old married man came to me because he wanted to change his depressed mood and his inadequate relationship with his wife. We have worked together for more than one year, four times a week. His father was tender but distant, and his mother was strong but manipulative. Since he has led a very busy life from the first day of his marriage, his wife has been distant with him. He has a ten-year-old boy. This patient is the owner of a small market and his business is flourishing. He faithfully came to all sessions and also followed the external rule of psychoanalysis very well from the first. Though he was referred by my colleague what he really wanted was to have sessions with her. He could not recognize his feeling of rejection from her at the time and so could not express it in the sessions. After our therapeutic alliance got stronger, I tried to explore the resistance connecting to the previous therapist, and finally he was able to recognize his anger toward me (not exactly me, but in transference) by displacing it on the previous therapist. Actually I was puzzled for a while about this patient in regard to the therapist issue. Everything went well with the analysis and he associated very well. He reported his childhood memories and many fantasies, especially how hard it was for him to ignore the distance of his parents and did not have good feelings about them. With his progress in analysis the interesting thing was his fear about failing in analysis. Furthermore, he complained that he had chosen the wrong therapist to work with. He said that his former clinician was more suitable. In this situation, I was led to reconsider things other patients had said to me as well. Whenever patients were referred to me by other therapists they complained that had made the wrong choice of therapist in a particular period of the therapy. I dare say that the patients desperately want to get better, but that they are also afraid to confront or give up their pathologic defense. That means the patients are resisting therapy in a very tricky way. Subsequently I believe that therapists need to be more open and focus on the resistance in a variety of ways. There are many new theories and techniques in contemporary psychoanalysis, but I would like to stay on the right track to help the patient in psychoanalytic treatment.
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KEYWORD
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Psychoanalysis, Therapist, Resistance
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