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HOW HUNGARIAN PSYCHIATRIST, LIPOT SZONDI WOULD TRAIN YOU.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHO-SHOCK THERAPY
Of course, a Fateanalysis, as a system offered a specific treatment protocol, which was practiced by Lipot Szondi, and which he believed would be of use to other psychotherapists. He strongly desired that further students of psychotherapy would learn the method. If they did so they would in the process (along with a brief training analysis, in which they would experience and validate for themselves the tenets of the system of Szondian Fateanalysis, a term that marked off a level of separation from the two other dominant schools of therapy of the early 20th Century, - Freud and Jung. Szondi claimed the existence of third form of the unconscious, one consisting of an eons build ancestor residue. This the family or gene passed inheritance that unfolds as the individual goes through the various development phases and at the same time, are either encouraged or suppressed, beginning with parenting and developed by all later learning and environmental pressures.
Contributing to what he wished to pass on to the next generations of therapists was what he himself had come to believe was the facts of what led people the their particular form of existence. This phrase being also a type list of what ultimately a person’s destiny or fate can said to be. This is not any mystic concept. It is also a person can at times can reset his inclinations to one of several morbid fates to one normal or sublimated.
The new therapist as part of his training would be expected to pass through three periods each building on the one prior.
1. Psycho-shock Associative Treatment.
2. Genealogy Study of his ancestors.
3. Learn the nature, intensity and strivings of his drive life
as reflected in the Szondi Test and as well learn the test itself.
At the end he would replicate these procedures with his patients. Such an applicant would be expected to be versed in current psychoanalytic procedures or even had a Freudian or Jungian training analysis before he starts. The Fateanalytic combined procedure is expected to reveal a subject’s particular family/ancestor set influences. These influences in Szondi’s view were rarely uncovered or even when uncovered, were not understood by conventional psychoanalysis. The new analyst he suggested could repair other analysts failed cases.
As with the conventional analysis, the couch, free association, dream analysis, verbal slips, and symptoms were the tools used. This presumably reached the personal unconscious, where mostly sexual and oedipal complexes were uncovered.
The next phase still retains the couch and the safe neural and passive ambience of traditional psychoanalysis.
A place, purpose and procedural conditioning more or less comfortable and expected.
The subject, the analyst in training, is of course given a basic introduction
as to what the next phase will involve. Of course he has an intellectual understanding of what’s to happen next.
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHO-SHOCK THERAPY
The therapeutic method comprises two phases:
A phase consists of making the patient consciously aware of and
confronting him with his ancestral demands. This phase is the
analysis of the compulsive ancestor set strivings that determine one’s fate.
The second phase has to do with ego analysis and the ego function of
faith. The procedure signifies an effort to analysis of the connections between the ego and ‘the spirit’.
The new departure has to do with the behavior of the analyst.
In this phase Szondi assumes an aggressive role by handling energetically the
associative procedure upon the basis of certain stimuli-provoking words
gleaned from dream or associative material. (This may not have been a total surpise to those who came from a Jungian setting, as similar word complex lists were often aggressively pursued.)
Szondi Emphasized his approach as being a shock-like associative procedure.
Called the hammer-blow associative method (Hammerschlag-Assoziationsverfahren). The method proceeds as follows as quoted-
‘….when the analyst believes that particular
stimulus words have penetrated the dream or associative material from a
specific, inhibited ancestral demand, these stimulus words are repeated one
after the other in a sledge-hammer fashion until their shock effect has
ceased. The analysand discontinues his resistance and permits the inhibited
ancestral figure suddenly to appear on the couch.’
Thus you (if this works), feel, even pseudo-hallucinate the presence of that ancestor, or at least the emotional associations that belong to such familial tendencies of such a nature as to be an unconsciously directing choices love object, friends, occupation and morbid forms in the patient group. Hopefully our analyst in training only has to deal with his schizoid ancestral compulsion to be become a psychotherapist.
This ‘abreaction’ event, the eliciting of emotional reactions along with verbal association contact is encouraged, and plays a strong part in treatment of patients with serious mind or behavioral problems.
Szondi claimed that his psychoshock analytic method was dangerous only in the hands of those psychotherapists who themselves must still struggle against their own familial unconscious and consequently have anxiety in the analytic situation lest they experience those hereditary psychic symptoms which they discern in the patient and by which they themselves feel menaced. It also accounts for the counter transference on the part of the therapist who comes to love or hate a patient.
If, however, the psychotherapist, with respect not only to the repressed material lying within his personal unconscious. The province of traditional psychoanalysis, but also to the material lying in his familial unconscious. If the province of Schicksal (Fate or destiny analysis), has been analyzed correctly and adequately, there is no longer a peril. In fact, only a more efficient procedure results.
Of course, a Fateanalysis, as a system offered a specific treatment protocol, which was practiced by Lipot Szondi, and which he believed would be of use to other psychotherapists. He strongly desired that further students of psychotherapy would learn the method. If they did so they would in the process (along with a brief training analysis, in which they would experience and validate for themselves the tenets of the system of Szondian Fateanalysis, a term that marked off a level of separation from the two other dominant schools of therapy of the early 20th Century, - Freud and Jung. Szondi claimed the existence of third form of the unconscious, one consisting of an eons build ancestor residue. This the family or gene passed inheritance that unfolds as the individual goes through the various development phases and at the same time, are either encouraged or suppressed, beginning with parenting and developed by all later learning and environmental pressures.
Contributing to what he wished to pass on to the next generations of therapists was what he himself had come to believe was the facts of what led people the their particular form of existence. This phrase being also a type list of what ultimately a person’s destiny or fate can said to be. This is not any mystic concept. It is also a person can at times can reset his inclinations to one of several morbid fates to one normal or sublimated.
The new therapist as part of his training would be expected to pass through three periods each building on the one prior.
1. Psycho-shock Associative Treatment.
2. Genealogy Study of his ancestors.
3. Learn the nature, intensity and strivings of his drive life
as reflected in the Szondi Test and as well learn the test itself.
At the end he would replicate these procedures with his patients. Such an applicant would be expected to be versed in current psychoanalytic procedures or even had a Freudian or Jungian training analysis before he starts. The Fateanalytic combined procedure is expected to reveal a subject’s particular family/ancestor set influences. These influences in Szondi’s view were rarely uncovered or even when uncovered, were not understood by conventional psychoanalysis. The new analyst he suggested could repair other analysts failed cases.
As with the conventional analysis, the couch, free association, dream analysis, verbal slips, and symptoms were the tools used. This presumably reached the personal unconscious, where mostly sexual and oedipal complexes were uncovered.
The next phase still retains the couch and the safe neural and passive ambience of traditional psychoanalysis.
A place, purpose and procedural conditioning more or less comfortable and expected.
The subject, the analyst in training, is of course given a basic introduction
as to what the next phase will involve. Of course he has an intellectual understanding of what’s to happen next.
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHO-SHOCK THERAPY
The therapeutic method comprises two phases:
A phase consists of making the patient consciously aware of and
confronting him with his ancestral demands. This phase is the
analysis of the compulsive ancestor set strivings that determine one’s fate.
The second phase has to do with ego analysis and the ego function of
faith. The procedure signifies an effort to analysis of the connections between the ego and ‘the spirit’.
The new departure has to do with the behavior of the analyst.
In this phase Szondi assumes an aggressive role by handling energetically the
associative procedure upon the basis of certain stimuli-provoking words
gleaned from dream or associative material. (This may not have been a total surpise to those who came from a Jungian setting, as similar word complex lists were often aggressively pursued.)
Szondi Emphasized his approach as being a shock-like associative procedure.
Called the hammer-blow associative method (Hammerschlag-Assoziationsverfahren). The method proceeds as follows as quoted-
‘….when the analyst believes that particular
stimulus words have penetrated the dream or associative material from a
specific, inhibited ancestral demand, these stimulus words are repeated one
after the other in a sledge-hammer fashion until their shock effect has
ceased. The analysand discontinues his resistance and permits the inhibited
ancestral figure suddenly to appear on the couch.’
Thus you (if this works), feel, even pseudo-hallucinate the presence of that ancestor, or at least the emotional associations that belong to such familial tendencies of such a nature as to be an unconsciously directing choices love object, friends, occupation and morbid forms in the patient group. Hopefully our analyst in training only has to deal with his schizoid ancestral compulsion to be become a psychotherapist.
This ‘abreaction’ event, the eliciting of emotional reactions along with verbal association contact is encouraged, and plays a strong part in treatment of patients with serious mind or behavioral problems.
Szondi claimed that his psychoshock analytic method was dangerous only in the hands of those psychotherapists who themselves must still struggle against their own familial unconscious and consequently have anxiety in the analytic situation lest they experience those hereditary psychic symptoms which they discern in the patient and by which they themselves feel menaced. It also accounts for the counter transference on the part of the therapist who comes to love or hate a patient.
If, however, the psychotherapist, with respect not only to the repressed material lying within his personal unconscious. The province of traditional psychoanalysis, but also to the material lying in his familial unconscious. If the province of Schicksal (Fate or destiny analysis), has been analyzed correctly and adequately, there is no longer a peril. In fact, only a more efficient procedure results.
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