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‘Insight’ and ‘Corrective Emotional Experience’—Two Important Curative Factors in Psychoanalytic Group Therapy

MY thesis is:The main goal of psychoanalysis is insight gained by interpretation. This means that without interpretation and without insight after interpretation there will be no behavioural change. That is the typical psychoanalytic position. By insight I mean understanding, seeing, recognizing what is happening unconsciously, discovering the latent sense of what is spoken, the unconscious meaning, the personal truth. The antithesis is:Insight gained by psychoanalytic interpretation is not a sine qua non for behavioural change. Change can also be gained by corrective emotional experience, a somewhat non-analytic position which is important, for instance, in the encounter-group movements, among several newer group psychotherapies. By ‘corrective emotional experience’ I mean a new emotional arousal, for instance an outburst of hatred never experienced before, or falling in love for the first time. With thesis and antithesis put together in a dialectic way to synthesis we can conclude:Both insight by interpretation and corrective emotional experience are necessary preconditions for therapeutic change in psychoanalytic psychotherapy whether individual or group. There is a specific relationship between the two factors and their relative importance varies according to whether the diagnosis of the patient is more neurosis or more borderline.