Psychoanalytic Neutrality in Therapy: Thompson on the Rule of Neutrality

Deception and Trauma in Existential Psychoanalysis: Laing and Freud on Mystification Neutrality, as psychoanalysis uses the word, is not the absence of care, it is a way of refusing to take over someone else’s experience while still remaining fully present to it. The trouble begins with the word itself. In everyday speech, “neutral” suggests detachment,…

The Personal Relationship in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Thompson on the Demise of the Person

The Personal Relationship in Psychoanalytic Therapy: Thompson on the Demise of the Person A Reflection on Michael Guy Thompson’s Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis In psychoanalytic culture, the word personal often arrives with a faint odor of impropriety, as though it names whatever is left over when the real work is finished, or worse, whatever risks…