The depressive client’s transformational object experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy

• Main Authors: Hsin-Yu Wag, 汪興雨
• Other Authors: Chi-Wei Lin
• Format: Others
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16724682992575799832

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 諮商與臨床心理學系 === 104 === This study aimed to explore the depressive clients’ transformational object experience in psychodynamic psychotherapy and its’ impact on clients’ depressive symptoms. The researcher adopted a discovery-oriented methods to discover the course of the transformation object experience and carefully comprehend clients’ unique experience in counseling to find the factors and results of the transfomation. The researcher invited eight participants (four pairs of client and psychologist) who were in a psychodynamic psychotherapy for more than a year and had terminated the treatment before the individual interviews. The result showed that factors contributing to the transformational objects experience included clients’ mentalities before treatment, mainly the desire for counseling as well as motivations for self-understanding and change.In addition, the therapeutic and holding environment of the counseling setting and the coexistence of transferential and real relationship, as well as mother-and-child and adult interaction between clients and psychologists were central to the transformational object experience . Transformational object experience began with building relationship that enabled transferential relationship alternated with real relationships. As the clients encountered aesthetic experience, the psychological transformation enfolded. Finally, clients continued to experience a continous integration of inner and outer world, fantasy and truth, past and present, and good and bad. The impact of transformational object experience on the clients, initially appeared in the ego state, when their frustration and deficient became soothed and nourished the clients modulate the representations of themselves and others. Subsequently, clients acquired further intergation of innner experience and continous enhancement of ego function. These changes not only resulted in a relief of initial depressive symptoms but also a emergence of the power for personal growth.Based on the above findings, the researcher provided implications for practice and suggestions for future reseearch.