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This article offers a perspective and a summary of Jack Danielian's (2010) Horneyan training model, highlighting the benefits of a meta-psychological approach for analysts in training and seasoned practitioners alike. To help illustrate the complexity of Karen Horney's views of character structure and character pathology, this article presents a model that reflects the dynamic tensions at play within individuals with narcissistic issues. It suggests that therapeutic listening can be tracked and that thematic material unfolds in a somewhat predictable, sequential, yet altogether systemic manner. Listening is not just art or intuition, nor is it merely interpretation of content based on a theoretical framework. It represents a way of holding the dialectic tension between conscious and unconscious, syntonic and dystonic. If we can better track these dynamic tensions, we can better anticipate and hopefully avoid clinical ruptures through the acting out of negative transference.
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Danielian, J. (2010). Meta-realization in Horney and the teaching of Psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 70, 10–22.
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1Psy.D., Member, New Hampshire Psychological Association.
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Gianotti, P. A Clinical Application of the Training Model. Am J Psychoanal 70, 42–52 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2009.41
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2009.41