During the psychoanalytic therapy each specialist uses psychoanalytic diagnosis to determine the type of the customer's identity.This diagnosis is usually held at the beginning of the treatment during the preparatory stage of work, during which the survey is carried out the test, the diagnostic interview, medical history, and joint development of areas for further work.Personality types are defined for the purposes of effective implementation of all diagnostic work.
Diagnostic Aims:
1) To develop a plan for further psychoanalytic work, aswith each client depending on his personality type is planned specific form and set the duration of individual therapy.
2) To carry out the forecast of psychoanalytic work, depending on what type of person are subject to a particular therapeutic technique.
3) In order to protect the customer from unreasonable expectations.The correct diagnosis, the therapist can not only inform the customer about the complexity and duration of the joint venture, but also point to the need to make efforts to work on the problem.
4) To establish the interaction on the basis of empathy, that is,Diagnosis helps to better understand the client's problems, experiences and possible reasons for the stated problem.
5) In order to prevent attempts to refuse treatment if it seems too lengthy, difficult, demanding work on oneself.Psychoanalyst establishes the types of conflict of personalities and appropriate ways to work with them in the maturing acute situation that could lead to rupture of the therapy.
Diagnosis based on psychoanalytic theory
Nancy McWilliams for psychoanalytic diagnosis suggests using two psychoanalytic theory: the theory of drives Sigmund Freud and the theory of ego psychology, the founder of which was Anna Freud - daughter and assistant of his father.
1) Using the theory of drives all personality types divided according to the fixation on one or another stage of psychosexual development of the individual oral, anal and phallic character that was made by researchers and is reflected in their works.For example, Wilhelm Reich in the "Analysis of the character."
2) Ego psychology is a person's character as a set of psychological defenses with which people develop their coping mechanisms and protective responses.Diagnostics appropriate protective mechanisms can more accurately determine personality types of customers visiting a psychoanalyst.
Diagnostics levels of the organization nature
People of the same type of person may behave differently depending on how severe violation of nature they can be traced.Traditionally there are three levels:
1) neurotic.Patients demonstrate a high level of performance, while providing enough deep emotional distress.They are in contact with reality, adequately assess their condition and decide on their own to overcome.
2) Border.Demonstrate a willingness to test reality.But not always do it successfully.Easy to regress to previous stages of development and use primitive defense mechanisms.
3) psychotic.Reality Testing difficult person uses false images that are drawn from fantasy, hallucinations.Experiencing basal distrust of the outside world.
Often the diagnosis comes the confusion: hysteroid personality type mistaken for a psychotic character.It is understood that hysteroid (or hysterical) personality type may be neurotic, and borderline and psychotic, but in all aspects of staging will seek to showcase themselves.
Psychoanalytic diagnosis is effective in the event that an expert uses a comprehensive study: determine the type of personality and the character of their organization.
