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The example of the classical psychoanalytic situation (the basic model technique of psychoanalysis), in which a regressive transference neurosis is induced,7, 8 has greatly shaped the conduct of all uncovering procedures and has unwittingly encouraged regression-inducing techniques in psychoanalytic exploratory psychotherapies and other insight psychotherapies. The psychotherapist does not recognize that he is promoting regressive behavioral movements without the classical analytic means for analyzing them when he transplants this paradigm into face-to-face uncovering psychotherapy, and so piles up difficulties for both his patient and himself.
In the basic model technique the regressive transference—a special development, an artifact—is induced by the conduct of the analyst in the special “psychoanalytic situation” and then resolved by interpretation alone.3, 7 It is an accident of history that the etiologic theory on which this technique is based was the hypothesis of an early trauma or hurt whose affects remained unspent.2 Free association and dream analysis were facilitants19 devised to more quickly revive the affect-full memory of the childhood trauma.
In psychotherapy how does the therapist unknowingly encourage (behavioral) regression, and how can he oppose it? The gist of the answer to these questions is that almost everything that takes