Phases of Treatment

Question 1

Beginning

Answer 1

Establish a therapeutic holding environment. Demonstrate that the therapist is able to provide containment. Provide “experience-near” empathy.
Explore the client’s problem and history. (The therapist can be a warm open presence without judgment. The therapist doesn’t take on the client’s emotional state for themselves but can have empathy.

Question 2

Middle

Answer 2

Repair disruptions of the self-object transference. Addressing enactments. Empathizing with losses and blows to self. Mourning loss of self-objects. Mourning ambitions and fantasies. Identify alternative self-object

Question 3

End

Answer 3

Reflect on the treatment process. Acknowledge and process issues related to termination.