Abstract:This paper discusses the sources and consequences of grandiosity in the psychotherapist, especially in interaction with grandiosity in the patient. Grandiosity is presented as an endemic characteristi...This paper discusses the sources and consequences of grandiosity in the psychotherapist, especially in interaction with grandiosity in the patient. Grandiosity is presented as an endemic characteristic which accounts for the exaggerated claims for universal applicability and efficacy made by principal spokespersons for leading "schools" of psychotherapeutic practice. Yet the grandiosity of the partisans of each school, expressed behaviorally in their willingness to extend therapeutic technique far beyond the parameters of those cases in the successful treatment of which the architects of each school demonstrated their effectiveness, has unintentionally contributed to a developing body of empirical evidence about the limits of applicability without which psychotherapy could not mature as a clinical science. Prototypical case iliustrations are offend to contrast probable results when grandiose partisanship in a helpgiver is rnct by shallow-rooted or deeply entrenched grandiosity In the help-receiver.Read More
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-10-04
Language: en
Type: article
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