I felt so hilariously called out by this post I actually bothered to make an account after years of lurking. I fit that patient description quite well, or did anyway. This is one aspect of why I always went for CBT and never even considered psychoanalasys.
I'd be highly interested in further thoughts on the matter. In case you care for a patient reflection (I'm no psychologist): I think the social connection between identity (for example job) and social relations can be close. I chose to hold onto my identity because I thought all my relationshi...
Hope you don't mind a longer comment on the nature of this endeavourer. I'm really interested in the phenomenon and like your approach, but uncertain if this methodology will yield results that give evidence on the matter.
With this sentence you'll mix up the results: "summarize what was said if you don't remember exactly, or if the conversation was long and contained a chain of *convincing subpoints*"
To summarize "a speech act" as a conversation muddies the waters on what we're researching here. If a conversa... (read more)