Therapeutic Action: An Introduction and Overview

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Notes

¹The first titular reference was by Strachey (1934), who can be credited with coining the term.

²We searched for papers that had these search terms (“therapeutic action,” for example) in their title. A limitation of this search method is that some papers discuss the topic, even extensively, without it being stated explicitly in the title.

³The notion that that intellectual revolution in psychoanalysis is responsible for the explosion of interest in therapeutic action gains further support from the parallel finding that the vast majority (76 percent) of all titular references to the “analytic” or “psychoanalytic” relationship also appeared after 1990.

⁴We are grateful to the American Psychological Association for allowing us to use this and other related material. The reader might wish to purchase the video (2007) featuring the clinical interview, along with Wachtel's (2011) discussion of it, directly from the American Psychological Association.