Self-Agency in Psychotherapy by Jean Knox

Author:Jean Knox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

In the doer/done-to mode, being the one who is actively hurtful feels involuntary, a position of helplessness. In any true sense of the word, our sense of self as subject is eviscerated when we are with our “victim,” who is also experienced as a victimizing object. (2004, p. 9)

I will give two brief clinical examples, one that illustrates the patient’s indexical communication to the analyst and the second of which shows the patient’s fear of the therapist’s coercive intent. I am grateful to my colleague George Bright for his permission to quote the first vignette:

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