Theo L. Dorpat, M.D., received his medical training at the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. He was the first graduate of the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute (now called the Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis) where he is now a training and supervising psychoanalyst. He maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and forensic psychiatry in Seattle.
Theo Dorpat has given us an important book on a subject that
clearly and deeply concerns him. It is about the various subtle
ways that the psychotherapist, including the psychoanalyst,
indoctrinates the patient without knowing that he is doing so.
Dorpat shows us how the therapist, using widely accepted techniques
such as questioning the patient, may raise doubts in the patient's
mind about his (the patient's) own perceptions, and induce the
patient to accept the therapist's sometimes erroneous ideas. Also,
Dorpat tells us how the therapist can judge from the patient's
responses to his interventions whether the patient feels set back
or helped. Dorpat's work is based not only on his wide experience
in psychoanalysis and related fields, but also on an extensive and
detailed study of process notes, in which he carefully analyzes
patient-therapist interactions. This book provides a much-needed
critique of current clinical practice.
*Joseph Weiss, M.D., San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute*
This provocative and disquieting study of the role of covert
processes of indoctrination and interpersonal control in
therapeutic failures is an important contribution to the growing
literature challenging the mythology of therapeutic neutrality and
objectivity. Dorpat's recommendations for making these unconscious
influence processes conscious will be invaluable to therapists and
analysts in their efforts to discriminate between patterns of
compliance and genuine therapeutic change.
*Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Institute of Contemporary
Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles*
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