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Paul Ian Steinberg, "Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
What Is the Technique of Confrontation?
The technique of clarification involves exploring with the patient the implications of his statements and question what is contradictory, unclear or incomplete. Clarification is an attempt to bring out additional facts while making more obvious what questions are implied but left unexplained in the patient's information. The nique of confrontation, despite the connotation of the term, does not involve an aggressive forcing of unpleasant facts on the patient's throat. So i'll give you an example to illustrate these different techniques. Mister a, a minor executive and a large corporation, presented to his clinition with vague complaints of anxiety and depressive mood. He complained about management's unfair coercion of the employees, taking advantage of them and dismissing them when they did
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