Advances in Relational Psychotherapy

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Neil Altman

1.

Neil Altman says:

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Reparation takes destructiveness for granted.

Reparation adds goodness and love to destruction and damage.

Reparation is a process not an end point.

2.

Neil Altman says:

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The effort to ward off guilt, by denying the need and opportunity of reparation, creates further injury.

Guilt must be put in the context, for both analyst and analysand, of a sense of tragedy.

Guilt can amount to a grandiose sense of power over the fate of the interaction.

Dr Jessica Benjamin

3.

Jessica Benjamin says:

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As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of mutual recognition.

As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of autonomy.

As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of our rightness.

Doris Brothers

4.

Doris Brothers' presentation describes the crux of the success of this relational therapy as resting on an experience of "twinship". Which of the following phrases describe this relational dynamic?

Select any that apply

Mutual findings of oneself and not-oneself in the other.

A delicate balance between sameness and difference between two people's psychological structures.

A sense of merger and the sameness as the other person.

5.

Doris Brothers says that:

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She herself was transformed by the relationship with her patient Akela.

That the therapy relied upon finding the right words.

That, while the therapy did not impact deeply on her own psychic structures, it was evident that this was best for the patient.

Dr Muriel Dimen

6.

Dr Muriel Dimen says:

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Interpellation, which denotes how persons are "hailed" into being, how their subjectivity is born, is always a matter of power.

Interpellation, which denotes how persons are "hailed" into being, how their subjectivity is born, is always a matter of choice.

Interpellation, which denotes how persons are "hailed" into being, how their subjectivity is born, is always a matter of clinical diagnosis.

7.

Dr Muriel Dimen says:

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Interpellation is a concept that supports the relational theory of intersubjectivity.

The notion of interpellation helps us to formulate Ms. TK's dilemma in regard to her identity and thus helps us to understand her solutions to her internal problems.

The concept of interpellation helps us to formulate Ms. TK's dilemma in regard to her identity but it does not help us to understand her solutions to her internal problems.

Dr Adrienne Harris

8.

Adrienne Harris attributes the concept of "Our deeply rhythmic and resonant ways of being together, imagining another" to:

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Susie Orbach

Colwyn Trevarthen

Mary Main

Allan Schore

9.

Adrienne Harris quotes, "Fear is just memory in the future tense". This was said by:

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Lars Svendsen

Sigmund Freud

John Welwood

Donald Winnicott

Dr Nancy McWilliams

10.

Nancy McWilliams suggests that personality factors have more to do with therapeutic outcome than therapeutic technique. What personality attributes from the following list does she propose are particularly influential?

Select any that apply

Temperament

Attachment Style

Sense of humour

Affective organisation of the self

Neurochemicals in the brain

Class background

Dr Jeremy Safran

11.

Dr Jeremy Safran asserts that:

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The relational meaning or nonverbal subtext of the intervention is not as important as the verbal information conveyed by it.

Healthy functioning involves the integration of affective information with higher level cognitive processing.

Emotions are biologically wired into the human organism through an evolutionary process.

12.

Dr Jeremy Safran says that:

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Enactments can obstruct therapeutic progress and potentially traumatize the patient.

In order to disembed from enactments therapists require a basic capacity for objective analysis.

Therapists caught in the grip of difficult enactments will inevitably experience anger.

Professor Andrew Samuels

13.

Andrew Samuels asserts that a developmental perspective that focuses on the infant within the patient is no longer exciting. He believes that what is exciting is:

Select any that apply

To come to terms with the fact that there is a child within both the patient and the analyst.

To identify the child parts of both and integrate them into the adult-to-adult communication.

To exclude the child and work with the two, adult citizens in the room.

14.

Andrew Samuels says that in psychotherapy we have two big axes. Which does he believe is most theoretically developed within relational psychoanalysis:

Select one correct answer

The interpersonal axis between two people.

Two sets of intra-psychic dynamics.

Dr Donnel Stern

15.

There must be a point of attachment to the past from the present and to the present from the past.

Select any that apply

The retranscription of memory needs to be able to proceed in both directions, not only from the past to the present.

When we reconstruct memory we are in fact only working with the present.

There must be a point of attachment to the past from the present and to the present from the past.

16.

Donnel Stern's patient Darryl suffered from:

Select any that apply

Paranoid Schizophrenia

An amputated leg

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Tuberculosis

Dr Neil Altman
1. Neil Altman says:	Tick any that apply
a. Reparation takes destructiveness for granted.
b. Reparation adds goodness and love to destruction and damage.
c. Reparation is a process not an end point.

2. Neil Altman says:	Tick any that apply
a. The effort to ward off guilt, by denying the need and opportunity of reparation, creates further injury.
b. Guilt must be put in the context, for both analyst and analysand, of a sense of tragedy.
c. Guilt can amount to a grandiose sense of power over the fate of the interaction.

Dr Jessica Benjamin
1. Question from video – Jessica Benjamin says:	Select 1 correct answer
a. As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of mutual recognition.
b. As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of autonomy.
c. As we survive breakdowns, we increase our sense of our rightness.

Dr Doris Brothers
1. Doris Brothers’ presentation describes the crux of the success of this relational therapy as resting on an experience of “twinship”. Which of the following phrases describe this relational dynamic?	Tick any that apply
a. Mutual findings of oneself and not-oneself in the other.
b. A delicate balance between sameness and difference between two people’s psychological structures.
c. A sense of merger and the sameness as the other person.

2. Doris Brothers says that:	Tick any that apply
a. She herself was transformed by the relationship with her patient Akela.
b. That the therapy relied upon finding the right words.
c. That, while the therapy did not impact deeply on her own psychic structures, it was evident that this was best for the patient.

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