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CASE STUDY ON DASEINSANALYTICAL TREATMENT OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER
Title in the language of publication: | FALLDARSTELLUNG ÜBER EINE DASEINSANALYTISCHE BEHANDLUNG EINER SCHIZO-AFFEKTIV ERKRANKTEN |
Author: | Roland Strobl |
Issue: |
HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology. Vol. 5, №2 (2016),  200-225 |
Language: | German |
Document type: | Research Article |
DOI : 10.18199/2226-5260-2016-5-2-200-225 | PDF (Downloads: 3151) |
Abstract
In this case study I want to show the development during Daseinsanalysis of a woman suffering
from a long term schizoaffective disorder. After three attempts to start and remain in therapy,
and following eleven inpatient admissions to different psychiatric hospitals, it seems, that the
phenomenological approach of Daseinsanalysis has helped her continue and, over time, she has
been able to find a better way of coming closer to the aim which has been most requested of her
until now – of becoming lively – but without it resulting in a psychiatric hospital admission. Firstly
I will attempt to give an overview of my patient’s history, including my first encounter with her:
a public help desk for working assistance for psychiatric patients in 2001, and then, soon after, as she
started Daseinsanalysis in my private practice. She discontinued the therapy on account of not being
able to cope with difficult feelings arising from having fallen in love with me, her analyst. I could
not respond in the way she expected me to. That was the first break in our therapeutic relationship
and another one was to follow two years later, when she came closer for the second time. It was
my mistake as her therapist, to interfere as her father had done. She told me during one of those
sessions that this was her experience and this prompted the second break. And now, since 2013, our
relationship seems strong enough to continue and to come closer together to her first aim. The core
question in my case study as an example from the practice in Daseinsanalysis is: how is it possible
for the therapist to find the right balance in his or her approach between abstinence, through which
patients can find enough space to develop freely and the naturally occurring possibilities in every
relationship, which make people and their relationships lively?
Key words
Schizoaffektive disorder, Daseinsanalyst, Erschlossenheit, phenomenological method, psychiatry, hallucinations, Geworfenheit, Ek-sistenz.
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