Psychoanalysis

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This paper examines the psychoanalytic theory, exploring how it fits with the Life Model Schema, life transitions, environmental stressors, and interpersonal obstacles. The paper discusses the compatibility of psychoanalysis with social work values, ethics, and skills. The paper assesses how psychoanalytic theory applies to working with individuals, families, and/or small groups. The impact of racial, ethnic, or socio-cultural issues of the application of psychoanalysis is outlined in the paper. The paper analyzes ethical conflicts, which might be prompted by the implementation of this theory, and identifies how it relates to NASW code of ethics.

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Introduction of Theory
The Life Model Schema
Social Work Values
Individuals, Families and Small Groups
Racial, Ethnic or Socio-Cultural Issues
Specific Client Population
NASW Code of Ethics

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"Attentive listening and empathy from the therapist allows the patient to express thoughts and feelings which will later allow for the discovery of underlying emotional conflicts. During treatment, the patient will try to "blame" someone for the distress he/she feels, and this person if often the psychoanalyst. This is how patients often arrive to having all sorts of feelings, ranging from love to hate and from rivalry to rejection toward the psychoanalyst. This process, the projection onto the psychoanalyst of behaviors and feelings that have originated in earlier relationships is referred to as "transference". The manner in which the analyst handles the transference is crucial to the success of the psychoanalysis. The general conception is that the patient discovers the nature of his/her unconscious feelings and then becomes able to acknowledge them. The therapist directs the patient's attention to important aspects, of which he/she seems unaware, usually relating to links between the past and present, the emotional responses to the therapist and the important people in the patient life. These feelings are then regarded in a much more dispassionate way and from a tolerant perspective, as the patient feels liberated from their influence in future behavior."

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