ABSTRACT This paper is an effort to further delineate the concept “developmental object,” highlighting the ways the analyst’s emotionality contributes to therapeutic action. This capacity on the part of the analyst is vital to the patient’s experience of being seen and understood. It considers the meaning to the patient who experiences the analyst’s emotional capacity to see him, and its impact on the patient’s ability to reveal himself, to alter the way he relates, and to take a further developmental step. The use of the analyst as a developmental object can occur in all analyses but has been linked historically to technique applicable primarily to developmental pathology. It has also suffered by its confusion with the concept “corrective emotional experience.” This paper attempts to correct the confusion as well as to clarify the mechanisms by which the analyst as developmental object contributes to structural change. To highlight the unique role of the developmental object in therapeutic action, clinical material is presented contrasting the use of the analyst as developmental object with that of the analyst as transference object. To achieve this goal, the paper draws on psychoanalytic theorists’ study of the concept and illustrative clinical examples.

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发展对象与治疗作用

摘要本文旨在进一步界定“发展对象”的概念，强调分析人员的情绪化有助于治疗作用的方式。分析人员的这种能力对于患者被观察和理解的体验至关重要。它考虑了对经历了分析师的情绪能力来见面的患者的意义，及其对患者自我展示，改变与他人的关系以及采取进一步发展步骤的能力的影响。在所有分析中都可能使用分析人员作为发展对象，但历史上一直与主要适用于发展病理学的技术有关。它也与“纠正性情感体验”概念混淆。本文试图纠正这种混乱，并弄清分析人员作为发展对象促成结构变化的机制。为了突出发展对象在治疗作用中的独特作用，提出了临床资料，将分析人员作为发展对象与分析人员作为转移对象的使用进行了对比。为了实现这一目标，本文借鉴了精神分析理论家对这一概念和例证性临床实例的研究。