These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: The therapeutic relationship in psychiatric hospital treatment.
    Author: Gabbard GO.
    Journal: Bull Menninger Clin; 1992; 56(1):4-19. PubMed ID: 1555011.
    Abstract:
    The therapeutic relationship between staff members and patients is a crucial healing ingredient of psychoanalytically informed hospital treatment. The author describes how this relationship facilitates each patient's repetition of early object relations, which are reenacted with staff members through splitting and projective identification. During regular meetings, staff members work together to understand and integrate the various projected parts of a patient's psyche, which are then reintrojected by the patient through both interpretive and noninterpretive aspects of the therapeutic relationship. The author concludes by describing the deleterious effects on this process of current economic and regulatory forces.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]