Working in Prison: Subjective and Professional Experiences of Psychologists From a Psychoanalytic Perspective

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The study aims to explore and describe the professional and subjective experiences of psychologists who had worked in prison, as well as to analyze these experiences from a psychoanalytic perspective. For this purpose, qualitative research was chosen. Semistructured interviews were conducted with six psychologists who had previously worked in prison. The semantic and latent level analyzes provided by thematic analysis was used. The themes that emerged as a result of semantic analysis are (1) factors for choosing to work in prison, (2) reactions of the close others to working in prison, (3) both challenging and rewarding experience, (4) different than just being a psychologist, and (5) after-effect of working in prison. The themes that emerged as a result of the latent analysis are (1) identification with the inmate, (2) the need to involve the Other, (3) issues related to the transference of the inmate, and (4) issues related to the countertransference of the psychologist. These results were discussed from the Lacanian psychoanalytic theory based on guilt, identification, and remaining distant position and formed a basis for future studies regarding the Turkish context.

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Working in Prison, Transference, Countertransference, Identification

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G. Sağbaş, “Working in Prison: Subjective and Professional Experiences of Psychologists From a Psychoanalytic Perspective,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.