Positive Enactment as a Clinical Resource

Abstract

Patients regularly make demands for responses that go beyond listening and nonjudgmental exploration. Some contemporary therapists frame these demands as a mobilized developmental longing that can lead to a positive enactment. This article proposes a conceptual framework that allows inquiry into spontaneously emerging positive enactments as a clinical resource.

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Lester Lenoff

Lester Lenoff is a graduate of NIP (NYC) and a member of ICP (LA) and practices in New York City. He is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.