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  1. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
  2. Year: 2011 Volume: 59
  3. Year: 2011 Volume: 59 Issue: 4
  4. Charles Brenner: a practitioner's theorist.
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Charles Brenner: a practitioner's theorist.

Content Provider World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author Friedman, Lawrence
Description Author Affiliation: Friedman L ( Weill Cornell Medical College.)
Abstract To avoid certain errors in practice, Charles Brenner offered an holistic substitute for the Freudian structural model of the mind. He used the term compromise formation ambiguously to refer to both actions and states, so as to render unnecessary what he considered artificial, judgmental attitudes embodied in images of psychic structures. He believed that a theory of conflicting structures transforms the phenomenological drama of the patient's actual life-world into an artificial drama of contending intrapsychic parties that may reflect the analyst's values. According to Brenner, the meaning of life, with its desires, fears, and regrets, is structured forever in the first articulation of the family drama, and that is all the structure a practitioner should have in mind. In principle, the ambiguity of the term compromise formation allows for observed continuities in human life, and might have inspired an ambitious theoretician to exploit that option for an account of character, but that aspect of theory moves in a direction opposite to Brenner's practical mission. For the same practical reason Brenner refused to acknowledge gradations of mental operation, such as differences in maturity, or style or level of thinking, so the theory cannot say how change can take place, analytic or otherwise. These lacunae in theory were unblinkingly (if implicitly) accepted in pursuit of Brenner's goal, which was not to polish up theory but to cleanse the analyst's mind of concepts that subtly interfere with the essential nondirectiveness of treatment. His theoretical minimalism and exclusive concern with practical consequences can be recognized as a peculiarly North American attitude to psychoanalysis.
File Format HTM / HTML
ISSN 00030651
Issue Number 4
Volume Number 59
e-ISSN 19412460
Journal Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Language English
Publisher Sage Publications
Publisher Date 2011-08-01
Publisher Place United States
Access Restriction One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword Discipline Psychiatry Psychoanalytic Therapy Conflict (psychology) History, 20th Century Humans Psychoanalysis History Psychoanalytic Theory Biography Historical Article Journal Article
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
Subject Arts and Humanities Clinical Psychology
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