Affect in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Abstract
This article develops the idea that the utilization and mastery of affect is central to all individual psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy. Problems in measuring affect and its vicissitudes over the course of therapy are highlighted. There is a review of the tools that have been used in such measurement. The article ends with some suggestions for future directions that might be taken in studying affect and its vicissitudes over the course of psychotherapy.
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