| Extra Info | : | In this talk, Philip Stokoe, author of The Curiosity Drive will argue that the nature of boundaries in a psychoanalytic treatment requires a unique approach to ethics and the management of complaints. They are not ‘things’ that exist independently of the activities of the working couple, they are part of the engagement of that couple. In fact, they act to stimulate conflict. Perhaps it is truer to say that they are not concrete ‘rules’ that prescribe the behaviour of the participants, as in a legal contract; they are emotional and psychological material that can be stretched and distorted so as to reveal unconscious information. The skill of the therapist and the therapeutic institution is to maintain a psychological balance that allows these apparent rules to be broken without ever completely losing the Hippocratic commitment to do no harm. |
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