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03/01/24 07:24 AM IST

Parliament breach accused underwent psychoanalysis

In News
  • The Delhi Police said the six individuals accused in the Parliament breach incident underwent psychoanalysis at a government institute in the city in order to ascertain their motives.
History
  • Psychoanalysis isn’t a form of psychotherapy but in fact a worldview.
  • It was the first modern Western system of psychotherapy.
  • The Viennese psychiatrist Sigmund Freud coined the term and developed it with many of his colleagues and peers.
  • He developed psychoanalysis as a treatment modality for people presenting with symptoms that other physicians were unable to treat.
  • Psychoanalysis aims to give people a greater degree of agency by facilitating awareness of their unconscious wishes and defences.
Significance
  • A defence is an intrapsychic process that helps individuals avoid emotional pain by pushing thoughts, wishes, feelings, and fantasies out of conscious awareness. Via projection, individuals can attribute their own threatening feelings or motives to another person.
  • And via reaction formation, they can deny a threatening feeling by claiming they’re experiencing the opposite.
  • Using rationalisation, an individual can find excuses that justify unacceptable behaviours when self-esteem is threatened.
  • Splitting is a way for individuals with borderline personality disorder to think in extremes, regarding people as either perfect or deeply flawed, exclusively nurturing or rejecting, etc.
  • Through identification, a victim may assume the faults of the opponent. For example, a woman facing domestic violence may believe she deserves to be beaten to justify her husband’s aggression. Via sublimation, a person may transfer unacceptable impulses onto more acceptable alternatives, like channeling anger into political activism.
Working
  • According to psychoanalysis, the therapeutic relationship is itself a change mechanism.
  • By acting in a different way than a client’s parents did, the therapist can present a new relational experience that challenges the client’s maladaptive models.
  • Traditional psychoanalysis involves four to six sessions per week, and often lasts for years. Contemporary psychoanalysts believe longer-term intensive treatment has certain advantages.
  • While circumscribed symptoms can change in the short term, more fundamental changes in personality functioning need more time to manifest. However, long-term intensive treatment isn’t always feasible, practical or even desirable.
  • Contemporary psychoanalytic practice involves shorter term consultations happening once or twice a week.
Source- The Hindu

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