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EPISODE · Jun 18, 2026 · 7 MIN

Is psychotherapy like painting or more like sculpture?

from Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

In his 1905 essay on psychotherapy Freud elaborates the distinction between painting (pouring on) and sculpture (chipping away). Classical defense and resistance analysis seeks to emancipate the true self.

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