An analysis of therapeutic failure in psychotherapy with a deaf client : a training psychologist's experience

This mini dissertation attempts to understand the early stages of a psychotherapeutic process between a trainee psychologist and a Deaf client. Both a social constructionist perspective of the experience of being disabled/Deaf, and an intersubjective lens, have been utilized in order to understand the nature of the therapeutic failures that occurred and how they functioned. A psychoanalytic case methodology was used to analyse the first eight sessions in the psychotherapeutic process with a Deaf client and members of her family.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Psychology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Srubisky, Catherine Filippa

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kaminer, Debbie

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12654

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12654