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.

Acknowledgments

Contributors' Biographies

Foreword

Ernest S. Wolf

Introduction

(10)

Charles B. Strozier

Section I: Supervisory Experiences: Personal Reflections

1. A Therapist's Initiatory Journey Through Submission in a Coercive Training Program

(26)

Annette Richard

2. One Wife's Story: A Relational Systems Perspective

(20)

Linda Raubolt and Doris Brothers

3. Trauma Sketches, Translations, and a Dialogue of Love: A Personal Response to L. Raubolt and Brothers

(8)

Richard Raubolt

4. Narcissistic Authoritarianism in Psychoanalysis

(18)

Daniel Shaw

5. Discussion: Vulnerability, Charisma, and Trauma in the Training Experience: Four Personal Odysseys

(10)

Marty Livingston

Section II: Theoretical and Technical Considerations

6. Covert Methods of Interpersonal Control

(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

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