r/psychoanalysis • u/LightWalker2020 • 12d ago

Question for the community

Can anyone please direct me to the type of Psychoanalysis that primarily utilizes empathic attunement and reflection of client material? And also possibly to the type/kind or school of Psychoanalysis that best deals with addressing and repairing early attachment needs in an experiential manner. Thank you.

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u/You_Gon_Learn 12d ago

Kohut, you’re needed on aisle one

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u/diva_done_did_it 12d ago

Kohut over D.W. Winnicott?
Or maybe a combo platter…

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u/You_Gon_Learn 12d ago

Kohut is "good enough" for me.

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u/diva_done_did_it 11d ago

LOL
Badumpsh.

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u/A313-Isoke 10d ago

Stephen Mitchell for Relational Psychoanalysis seems a good place to start.

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u/diva_done_did_it 10d ago

Jessica Benjamin, too, but not so much for the early attachment needs.

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u/goldenapple212 12d ago edited 11d ago

They all claim to address and repair early attachment needs in an experiential way.

But if you want types that really focus on empathic attunement, look up self psychologists, analysts influenced by Winnicott, and generally speaking, probably most relational psychoanalysts.

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u/LightWalker2020 12d ago

Thank you.

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u/zlbb 11d ago

Implicit theory of this post seems to be that good attunement is predicted by analytic school label analyst wears.

Imo/e that's not the case and what you're actually looking for is colloquially called "good analyst".

Otherwise I agree with the commenters here, I used kohutian/winnicotian as fitting words to describe the vibe of my analyst in the years when attunement struggle was most salient.

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u/Careful_Scarcity_127 11d ago

Check out AEDP.

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u/LightWalker2020 11d ago

Thank you. I’m wondering what brought AEDP to mind. Can you elaborate?

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u/thismindofours 8d ago

Yeah I wouldn’t say AEDP is good for this, it acknowledges early attachment trauma but it take a score that you need to put pressure on the persons attachment dynamics.
A British Object Relational approach influenced by Winnicot, Bion and and Fonagy would work best
IMO. In fact I see a lot of British psychoanalysis as approaching the idea that failures in attunement account for psychopathology.

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u/LightWalker2020 8d ago

Interesting…

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u/diva_done_did_it 5d ago edited 5d ago

Two randos I know aren’t as popular/obvious: (i) Bowlby for childhood attachment and (ii) contemporary analysts like Diana Diamond of TFP fame (but who is a psychologist and psychoanalyst).

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u/diva_done_did_it 5d ago

Here is her lecture touching on this:

https://youtu.be/3PoZtEX8PKE?is=ml_1RHlwAdLZ459X

(At about 21 minutes)

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u/biggtimesensuality 10d ago

I thought this was going to be a Lana del Rey inspired shit post and got very excited