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On becoming relational

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On becoming relational
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a journey from dissociative rigidity to affective tenderness
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Hartman
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Eric
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1973-
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Eric Hartman
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Rutgers University
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School of Social Work
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This case study outlines the experiences in training that shaped my professional identity and practice as a relational psychotherapist. I show how my clinical conduct shifted over the course of a single treatment by reflecting on previously unquestioned commitments to certain psychoanalytic techniques and then how I became more open to new ways of experiencing the patient and my internal responses to him. Using Donnel Stern's (1997) framework on dissociation and unformulated experience, I show how the therapeutic relationship transformed from first being characterized by rigid patterns of constricted relatedness to becoming more relaxed through the intersubjective negotiation of personal boundaries and emotional safety. I demonstrate how working through mutual enactments with my patient occurred nonlinearly and, ultimately, necessitated the creation of internalized conflict out from our external disjunctions. This process represented an achievement of reflective capacity on previously dissociated aspects of self-experience for both of us and fostered my acceptance of tender feelings for the patient in particular. I argue that relaxing the constricted relatedness inherent to rigidly following any theory or technique and allowing oneself to be tenderly affected by the patient are the hallmarks of becoming a relational practitioner.
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Social Work
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Dissociation
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Acting out (Psychology)
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Interpersonal psychotherapy
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by Eric Hartman
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ETD doctoral
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Eric
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-10-31
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2018-10-31
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