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From: Albert Watts Melbourne Australia
Date: 10/17/00
"....to conceive narrowly of the psychoanalytic process as depending on any specific set of such arrangements is to fall into the illusion of seeing psychoanalysis as actually analogous to a medical procedure or a technique of production, as we noted earlier. To the extent that the analyst is restricted in how he or she conducts the treatment, in terms of rules of abstinence or any other "rules" one might formulate (even the 'rule'of free association)psychoanalytic practice resembles the frozen rituals that are closely associated with dogmatic religious faith." Working Intersubjectively..Stolorow,Oraneg and Atwood p89
My questions is ( as our students read this) are there any limits to the flexibility of the frame under this model?
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