Psychic changes: the rorschach, the psychoanalytical process and the analyst-analysand relationship  <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: Cambios psíquicos: el rorschach, el proceso psicoanalítico y la relación analista-analizando </span>

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The authors intend to articulate the clinical and theoretical frames of references in an empirical context of a psychoanalytical investigation. Four young women with borderline disorder were assisted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the outpatient psychotherapeutic public service of a Medical School. The Rorschach test, Comprehensive System, was administrated before the treatment and once a year. After one year of therapy it was possible to correlate the participants’ psychic changes detected by the Rorschach with the changes occurred in the psychoanalytic setting. In some situations, it was possible for the analyst to build together with the analysand new representations and elaborations. In other moments, due to the violence and intensity of the emotions lived in the experience with the analysand, acting outs were enacted by the therapist, what could be recognized and overcome latter.

Translated abstract

Las autoras intentan articular marcos de referencia clínicos y teóricos en el contexto empírico de una investigación psicoanalítica. Cuatro mujeres jóvenes con trastornos borderline fueron tratadas con psicoterapia psicoanalítica en el servicio público de consultorios externos de una facultad de medicina. El Rorschach, Sistema Comprehensivo, fue administrado antes del tratamiento y luego, una vez por año. Después de un año de terapia fue posible correlacionar los cambios psíquicos de las participantes detectados por el Rorschach con los cambios ocurridos en el encuadre psicoanalítico. En algunas situaciones, fue posible para el analista construir junto con la analizanda nuevas representaciones y elaboraciones. En otros momentos, debido a la violencia e intensidad de las emociones vividas en la experiencia con la analizanda, se desencadenaron actuaciones en el terapeuta que pudieron ser reconocidas y superadas posteriormente

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Rorschach changes following brief and short-term therapy.

J H Exner, A Andronikof-Sanglade (1992)

Two groups of 35 patients each, one treated with brief therapy, averaging 14.2 sessions on a once per week basis, and the other group, treated with a short-term type of therapy, averaging 47 sessions on a once per week basis were administered the Rorschach and the Katz Adjustment Scales-Form S three times. The first administration took place before entering therapy. The brief therapy group was tested a second time at termination of treatment and again 8 to 12 months following termination. The short-term therapy group was tested the second time at therapy termination and the third time 10 to 12 months after termination. Each group reported substantially fewer symptoms at termination and continued to report about the same level of symptom reduction at the second retest. The Rorschach data seem to provide an ample basis from which to argue that considerable improvement occurred in the psychological organization and/or operations of both groups, and this appears to have some confirmation in the self-report data.