Power Games

by Raubolt, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781590511732
• ISBN10: 1590511735
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781635421439
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Other Press
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Summary

www.richardraubolt.com An intense account of the misuse of power in psychotherapeutic training that offers solutions to this urgent issue. Over the course of his own training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, Richard Raubolt came to see that advanced training is more often than not plagued by authoritarian practices, some subtle and many pronounced. It is the contention of Raubolt and his contributors that these practices instill fear and foster blind obedience to the favored proclivities of the leaders of the training institute. In turn, this subservience, which seeps into the therapeutic relationship, prevents both the training candidates and their prospective patients from developing creative, authentic, and meaningful experiences. This is a book written from the perspective of scholars and experienced clinicians who are acutely aware both on a personal and theoretical level of the disruptive role of power games in psychoanalytic institutes. The collection features a highly nuanced and comprehensively developed psychoanalytic understanding of the use and misuse of power, authority, status, and control operating in many traditional and nontraditional training experiences. Finally, new supervisory and training models based on empathy, respect for subjective experiences, and democratic principles are proposed as an alternative to the abusive practices so powerfully described in this book.

Author Biography

Richard R. Raubolt, Ph.D.

Richard R. Raubolt, Ph.D., is in independent practice offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and was special editor of an issue of Group entitled, "Charismatic Group Leadership: Theoretical and Ethical Issues." Currently he is chair of the trauma committee for the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors' Biographies	xi
Foreword	xv
Ernest S. Wolf
Introduction	1	(10)
Charles B. Strozier
Section I: Supervisory Experiences: Personal Reflections
1. A Therapist's Initiatory Journey Through Submission in a Coercive Training Program	11	(26)
Annette Richard
2. One Wife's Story: A Relational Systems Perspective	37	(20)
Linda Raubolt and Doris Brothers
3. Trauma Sketches, Translations, and a Dialogue of Love: A Personal Response to L. Raubolt and Brothers	57	(8)
Richard Raubolt
4. Narcissistic Authoritarianism in Psychoanalysis	65	(18)
Daniel Shaw
5. Discussion: Vulnerability, Charisma, and Trauma in the Training Experience: Four Personal Odysseys	83	(10)
Marty Livingston
Section II: Theoretical and Technical Considerations
6. Covert Methods of Interpersonal Control	93	(26)
Theodore Dorpat
7. On Cutting the Grass, Psychoanalytic Education, and the Interweave of Ideology, Power, and Knowledge: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective	119	(38)
Patrick B. Kavanaugh
8. Institutional Cloning: Mimetism in Psychoanalytic Training	157	(12)
Michael Larivière
9. Coerced Discipleship: Indoctrination Masquerading as Training in Psychotherapy	169	(18)
Richard Raubolt
10. Discussion of the Chapters by Drs. Dorpat, Kavanaugh, Larivière, and Raubolt	187	(22)
Molyn Leszcz
Section III: Supervisory Alternatives
11. Primum Non Nocere: A Supervisor's Odyssey	209	(12)
Paula B. Fuqua
12. Clinical Supervision: A Process of Self-Reflexivity in the Development of Therapeutic Competence	221	(34)
Conrad Lecomte
13. Authority Relations in Psychodynamic Supervision: A Contemporary View	255	(18)
Joan E. Sarnat
14. Effective and Efficient Supervision: Doing It in Group	273	(24)
Arthur A. Gray
15. Toward a Quadro-Partite Training Model, or from Identification-Relations (of Power) to Introjection-Relations (of Love): The Case of Identification with the Aggressor	297	(16)
Gershon J. Molad and Judith E. Vida
16. Individual and Group Supervision, Consultation, and Autobiographical Dialogues Between Analysts and Colleagues	313	(20)
Irene Harwood
17. Concluding Reflections	333	(8)
Richard Raubolt
Index	341