Dr Anurag Srivastava
Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Title: Interpretations for a new-era Psychoanalysis
Biography:
Dr Anurag Srivastava has been teaching and practicing Psychiatry and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for the past 20 years, with over 650 patients in Individual therapy, and over 50 couples in dynamic marital therapy. He currently heads a Post-graduate training program in Psychiatry, where he teaches psychiatry and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy to Post graduate students in Psychiatry.
Abstract:
Statement of the Problem: Interpretations have long been considered the dominant means of producing mutative change in dynamic therapy. Interpretations of the transference have been the mainstay of analytic technique. However, with changing times, fewer clients opt for a frequency of 3 to 5 sessions a week. Most clients only agree to once or twice a week session frequency. In these circumstances, development of a transference neurosis is time consuming and often incomplete Thus there is a need for exploring the efficacy of non-transference-based interpretations as tool for mutative change in therapy Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: The material has been sourced from 664 patients seen by the author in psychoanalytic psychotherapy over 18 years from May 1999 to April 2017. The patients were taken into therapy after assessment and informed consent. Findings: Non-transferential interpretations seem to be an effective and efficient tool for bringing about mutative change in patients in dynamic therapy across a broad spectrum of diagnoses. Conclusion & Significance: The efficacy of non-transferential interpretations can go a long way in extending the benefits of dynamic therapy to a wide variety of clients in a time and cost-effective manner. This may allow the survival of dynamic schools of therapy in an era of cost-sensitive medical care