Arnon Grunberg

Patients

Distrust

A conference with psychoanalysts in Amsterdam, Otto Kernberg and Peter Fonagy were among the speakers.
The theme was trust and distrust.
If I understood Mr. Fonagy well he said that the analyst had no wisdom to offer, even though he may be a wise person, but he can reestablish a sense of trust in his patients.
But the question remains, or so Mr. Fonagy said, what trust has to offer when the world in which the patient was living was completely untrustworthy.

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