An analysis of therapeutic failure in psychotherapy with a deaf client : a training psychologist's experience

Srubisky, Catherine Filippa

An analysis of therapeutic failure in psychotherapy with a deaf client : a training psychologist's experience

Master Thesis

2011

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Psychology

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

This mini dissertation attempts to understand the early stages of a psychotherapeutic process between a trainee psychologist and a Deaf client. Both a social constructionist perspective of the experience of being disabled/Deaf, and an intersubjective lens, have been utilized in order to understand the nature of the therapeutic failures that occurred and how they functioned. A psychoanalytic case methodology was used to analyse the first eight sessions in the psychotherapeutic process with a Deaf client and members of her family.

Description

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).

Keywords

Clinical Psychology

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