Analytic process is a poorly understood concept often thought to have an agreed upon meaning despite evidence to the contrary. So long as it remains ill-defined, its value as a metric of both candidate progression and whether a presented case demonstrates said process is dubious. To rectify the matter, the author proposes an expansion of what is thought to constitute analytic process in order to bring that concept in line with evolving trends in our collective thinking about clinical practice.
Defining Analytic Process: An Overdue Update of an Essential Analytic Concept
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 94:589-615Photo by: Suzy Hazelwood