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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 3 –8
- DOI
- 10.1037/0000086-001
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the book. The author wants to shed light on how underlying patterns of societal power relations affect the patient–therapist dyad in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. This book is an effort to understand, and ideally to reduce, clinical blindness in psychotherapy. The author systematically addresses unique therapeutic challenges in four different core therapeutic dyads of relative privilege: when therapist and patient share the same social privilege, when privilege favors the therapist, when privilege favors the patient, and when therapist and patient have a similar level of nonprivilege. Throughout the book the author explores relevant clinical patterns and dynamics in each of the four core fields of relative privilege. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: May 28, 2018
Keywords: patient–therapist dyad; psychoanalysis; psychotherapy; relative privilege; societal power relations