Acting out (psychoanalysis)
As acting (from the Latin agere , to act, to do 'move ) are in psychoanalysis called unconscious acts whose purpose is also unconscious psychological conflicts acting on stage . In these cases, the task of psychotherapeutic psychoanalysis is to help the analysand to recognize his unconscious motives and to process them consciously.
Act
Sigmund Freud originally described acting in his essay " Fragment of a Hysteria Analysis " (1905) as a transference phenomenon . His patient Dora had felt “disappointed and abandoned” by Mr K. and wanted to “take revenge” on him in the same way, but acted on the analyst and stopped the therapy. Dora did not reflect her motivations with words in therapy, but put them into action.
Freud later described the case where the patient provides a major part of the information provided not verbally but through the manner of his behavior as 'acting out'. For example, the analysand does not say that he was angry, but is angry with the analyst in the therapy session. In 1914 Freud dealt extensively with the phenomenon of acting out in "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through " and pointed to its close connection to resistance : "The greater the resistance, the more extensive the remembering through acting (repeating) will be."
Acting today is seen as a potential inherent in all transference phenomena, to express itself with updates rather than words.
Erik Blumenthal said: act instead of react .
Stage
Acting is to be distinguished from staging. One speaks of staging when the patient tries, through non-verbal behavior, to influence the analyst in such a way that he corresponds to his unconscious ideas. If the analyst follows this endeavor, a scene similar to a play emerges, in which one knows at first glance “what's going on” without the need for words. Productions can last a long time or only involve brief exchanges.
Acting in psychodrama
In psychodrama , acting refers to undirected action that is supposed to prevent a real encounter with the other person.
Valuation of action without insight
While in psychoanalysis the term acting has a predominantly negative connotation, because here insight is to be achieved without acting, in behavioral therapy an important meaning for the progress of treatment is definitely attached to acting without insight.
literature
- Sigmund Freud: remembering, repeating and working through. 1914.
- in: Collected Works. Vol. 10, pp. 125-136.
- in: study edition. Supplementary volume, pp. 205-215.
- Ulrich Streeck : Remembering, acting and staging. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-45870-3 .
swell
- ^ Sigmund Freud: Fragment of a hysteria analysis . 1905, IV. Afterword, p. 68–72 ( psychanalyse.lu [PDF; 482 kB ; accessed on April 12, 2015]).
- ↑ Falk Leichsenring (Ed.): Textbook of Psychotherapy. Vol. 2: Psychoanalytic and depth psychological therapy. 2004, ISBN 3-932096-32-0 .
- ↑ Inge Rieber Hunscha: The termination of psychotherapy: separation in the final stage; with 7 tables . Schattauer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7945-2355-5 , p. 115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).