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This chapter discusses changing the frequency, length, and timing of therapy sessions. Some key points:
- Altering the established temporal framework of sessions can affect the patient's sense of self and experience of time.
- Requests to change session times from either the patient or analyst inherently involve transference and countertransference difficulties.
- Occasionally accommodating a patient's request for a different time may help the analysis, but could also be seen as an enactment on the part of the analyst.
- An analyst's cancellations or changes can trigger feelings in patients of being slighted, hurt, grateful, or envious, and bring unconscious material into the transference.
This chapter discusses changing the frequency, length, and timing of therapy sessions. Some key points:
- Altering the established temporal framework of sessions can affect the patient's se…