Verdenhalven, Nia;
(2022)
Silence in the Psychoanalytic Work with Adolescents: An Exploration of Therapy Process.
Doctoral thesis (D.Psych), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis explores the occurrence of silence in the psychoanalytic work with adolescents. LITERATURE REVIEW: The literature review outlines psychoanalytic approaches to in-session silences in the psychanalytic work with adolescents. Particular attention is paid to the psychoanalytic understanding of silence from a developmental perspective, and a conceptualisation of silence in adolescent psychoanalytic literature is provided. Therapists’ responses to silence and therapeutic technique are also considered. EMPIRICAL PAPER: The empirical part examines the occurrence of pauses and therapists’ responses to particularly long silences in three pragmatically sampled dyads of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) with adolescents sourced from the Improving Mood with Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies (IMPACT) study (Goodyear et al., 2017). Pauses were coded across eighteen therapy sessions from beginning, middle and end of treatment. Data included frequency, duration, and percentage of session time taken up by silence. Pause quality was coded with the Pausing Inventory Categorization System 2nd Revision (PICS; Levitt & Frankel, 2004). Therapists’ responses to long pauses (>1min) were coded with the Helping Skills System (HSS; Hill, 2009). A particular focus is given to the occurrence of long pauses (>1min), and therapists’ responses to these are considered from a psychoanalytic angle. Implications for clinical practice and further research are offered. REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY: The final part of the thesis, the reflective commentary, offers a reflection on the author’s journey through conducting this research, including its peaks and troughs and discusses the author’s own interest in silence and the implications of the research on the author’s clinical practice.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Psych |
| Title: | Silence in the Psychoanalytic Work with Adolescents: An Exploration of Therapy Process |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144080 |
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