
#244 - Psychoanalysis: Past and Present: A Dialogue with Nancy McWilliams
Converging Dialogues
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The Importance of Understanding the Level of Organization of a Patient
If you don't have more mature ways like sublimation or a sense of humor or the capacity to intellectualize about something, chances are we think of you as needing work on that stuff. So those are some of the implications of where you see people. If you're in the more psychotic range, you're going to need a very active psychotherapy," he says. "It's more important to understand the level of organization of a patient than it is to understand what type of personality they have"
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