ABSTRACT

The author explores how the patient uses the waiting room and the relationship that he establishes with it vis-à-vis the analysis – an under-represented topic in the literature with the exception of a few authors. Drawing on field theory, Winnicott and Bion, the author examines how the patient’s relationship to the waiting room as an environment houses specific self-states that may be discrepant with those that emerge in the consulting room. Similarly, there may be complimentary versions of the analyst as object in relation to the patient’s discrete self-states that are specific to the waiting room in relation to the transference-countertransference dynamic. With the use of an extended vignette, the author demonstrates the importance of making use of the waiting room as an element of the treatment.

摘要

作者探讨了患者如何使用候诊室以及他与分析室之间的关系（相对于分析而言），这是文献中代表性不足的话题，只有少数作者除外。作者基于Winnicott和Bion的场论，研究了患者与候诊室之间的关系（环境）如何容纳特定的自我状态，这些自我状态可能与咨询室中出现的状态不符。类似地，可能存在与患者的离散自我状态有关的，作为对象的分析者的互补版本，该离散状态对于与转移-反转移动态有关的特定于候诊室。通过使用扩展小插图，作者证明了使用候诊室作为治疗要素的重要性。