| English term or phrase: failing the patient | Because the patient’s
demand for perfect mirroring cannot possibly be met, it is inevitable that
the therapist will be experienced as *failing the patient*, that is, will be experienced
as a bad object. However, also according to Kohut, so long as the
therapist acknowledges them and relates the patient’s reactions to these
failures, they will constitute optimal failures and will contribute slowly
and cumulatively to the patient’s increasing capacity to benefi t from the less
than perfect understanding.
Sospetto che ci sia un typo e manchi un "by"....... che ne dite? o il verbo può essere usato transitivamente?
Anyway, già che ci siamo, magari anche un suggerimento di traduzione - l'optimal failure che segue l'ho tradotto con "fallimento ottimale" (devo verificare sui testi, ma credo che sia stato reso così). |
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The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +4
