Escobar Venegas, Marta;
(2024)
Transference Work in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents.
Doctoral thesis (D.Psych), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Transference interventions are an important technique in psychoanalytic psychotherapy that has received increasing research attention. Studies have shown that psychotherapies with transference interventions can positively affect therapy outcomes and highlight the importance of examining the therapists' technique and how the transference relationship is explored within the treatment, adjusting it according to each patient's relational capacities. Using transference interventions in work with adolescents needs thoughtful consideration due to the significant biological, social, and emotional changes and challenges that adolescents face. This project is a mixed- method exploratory case study that explores the therapist's technique in delivering transference interventions in a good outcome short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a female adolescent with depression. Quantitative analyses examine the frequency and categories of the transference interventions using the Transference Work Scale in 6 sessions corresponding to the treatment's early, middle and late stages. A qualitative approach, using conversation analysis, explores the features of the language used by the therapist to formulate the transference interventions. Analysis showed that throughout the treatment, the transference interventions were gradually jointly constructed and woven into the adolescent's verbalisations. The therapist used conversational strategies such as continuers and newsmakers to indicate continued attention, used the patient's words and prosody to express understanding, waited to join the dialogue, and carefully prepared the transference interventions throughout the session. These strategies facilitated the adolescent's subsequent elaboration of the material addressed by developing coordinated work between patient and therapist in a co-created meaning-making process. Clinical implications suggest the importance of adjusting the therapist’s technique to address transference according to adolescents’ personality characteristics.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Psych |
| Title: | Transference Work in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences 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 |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198297 |
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