ABSTRACT
In Chapter 15, author José Carlos Calich states three fundamental questions regarding the Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods: What do we really do? How do we do it? Why do we think what we do works? Working with these questions leads to the construction of scenarios about the colleague-presenter’s implicit model of the analytic process, which includes their type of listening, their model of psychic change, and their intervention technique that seeks this change. The group must focus the task on these assumptions by reversing the ‘I-would-do-it-in-this-other-way’ model into the understanding of ‘what-the-other-does’, ‘how-the-other-does-it’, and ‘how-this-other-thinks-it-works’. The method here exposed in its foundations opens up the possibility of several axes of investigation. The author focuses on four of these axes: investigation in interventions, investigation in implicit models, investigation in communication among psychoanalysts, and investigation in psychoanalytic supervision.
