Self-criticism and the psychic surface.

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the ventral tegmental pathway stimulates both dreaming and drug craving. To investigate a possible clinical link between these two psychic phenomena, psychotherapy notes from the first six months of an addicted patient's treatment were reviewed, together with verbatim notes from the four...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Johnson B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychosomatic model of dissociation is proposed that addresses the ever adjusting mind-body relation-the constant titration of the quality and degree of the psyche's embeddedness in the sensorial and temporal life of the body. The model highlights the function of hypnoid mechanisms (autohypnosis, distraction, somati...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Goldberg P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is made for community-based psychoanalysis as part of usual psychoanalytic practice. A safe community is first defined psychodynamically, after which three variations are presented on the community-based style and qualities and modes of practice compared with individual psychoanalytic therapy and psychoanalysis...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Twemlow SW

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dave Eggers's memoir is an important addition to the tradition of autobiography in America, and offers significant contributions to our understanding of creativity, sublimation, and the psychology of the memoir-writing process. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is really two books--an autobiographical narrativ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Miller E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current consensus among psychoanalysts holds that direct infant observations are one means for testing the developmental propositions of psychoanalytic theory; that the observations have already falsified some of the theory's basic propositions; and that they hold the key to a qualitatively different developmental...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Wolff PH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meaning of the "grist for the mill" metaphor has undergone a shift from "analyzing everything" to "everything is analyzable." This is used as a point of departure for exploring some of the multiple, complicated, and often unrecognized ways reality is used defensively by analyst and analysand. The point of view pre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Inderbitzin LB,Levy ST

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's theory of dream construction allowed the censorship to intervene only when a repressed infantile wish emerged from the unconscious. In his (1899) paper on screen memories, however, he proposed a mechanism for the defensive displacement of current events as they are sorted for introduction into permanent memory...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Palombo SR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the unconscious ego resistances is one of those clinical concepts more honored in the breach than in the observance. This same point has been made periodically over the past fifty years. It has not been sufficiently realized that a true psychoanalytic understanding of resistance analysis could only begin w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Busch F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout childhood and adolescence, psychological growth proceeds in a sequence of progressive hierarchical organizations. Consequently, children are continuously consolidating existing positions or are in transition from one to another. When analytic treatment is proposed, analysts often find themselves in the posi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Abrams S,Solnit AJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years a number of analytic concepts have been subject to scrutiny, with the value of interpretations, the usefulness of abstinence, the possibility of neutrality, all questioned. One reason for the skepticism about interpretations, in particular, is that before a patient can use an interpretation for psychic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Chused JF

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conception of insight is proposed, based on a systems and information-processing framework and using current neuroscience concepts, as an integration of information that results in a new symbolization of experience with a significant change in self-image and a transformation of non-declarative procedural knowledge i...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rosenblatt A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to illustrate the relevance of psychoanalytic theory and research to behavior medicine, an empirical investigation was conducted of females treated at a high-risk pregnancy specialty clinic (N = 58). Drawing from psychoanalytic object relations theory, it was hypothesized and confirmed that use of projec...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Shahar G,Porcerelli JH,Kamoo R,Epperson CN,Czarkowski KA,Magriples U,Mayes LC

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are always third elements intersecting the analytic pair. One such element is the analytic community. The analyst is therefore never in a dyadic relationship with the patient, but always in a triangle. In relation to the patient, the analyst will be concerned with useful practices. In relation to the analytic co...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Spezzano C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, plus selected analysts from Canada, France, and England, were asked how they presented the fundamental rule to their analysands and what considerations led to their choice of...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lichtenberg JD,Galler FB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a developmental history and an account of the treatment of an eighteen-month-old boy who had a bamboo phobia. Conceptual problems concerning drive organization, the expression of drive derivatives, and object relations have been explored. The correlation of these with Mahler's separation-individuatio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Renik O,Spielman P,Afterman J

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A psychoanalytic candidate explores his experience of participating in a research project at his institute during his training. The candidate has been a member of Sabrina Cherry's prospective study of psychoanalytic practice and professional development conducted at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Tr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Hadge L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An English translation of a previously unknown manuscript by Freud is presented. The manuscript, originally prepared in 1931 for William Bullitt's psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, provides a general theoretical introduction to psychoanalysis. It also includes an original interpretation of Christianity that postulate...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Solms M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects of unconscious processes in a group of seriously disturbed psychiatric patients are examined in an effort to predict near-lethal suicide attempts and explore psychoanalytic formulations of suicide. The Rorschach Inkblot Test, the most widely used projective measure in suicide research (Bongar 1991), was chosen...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Fowler JC,Hilsenroth MJ,Piers C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation-individuation and attachment theories are compared and assessed in the context of psychoanalytic developmental theory and their application to clinical work. As introduced by Margaret Mahler and John Bowlby, respectively, both theories were initially regarded as diverging from traditional views. Separation-...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Blum HP

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the widely diverse category of so-called mirror dreams, we have differentiated the most frequent, which we have designated the common mirror dream (CMD). It is one in which the dreamer at some point looks into a mirror and reports seeing himself, a part of himself or a distorted though recognizable version of him...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Coen SJ,Bradlow PA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Material is presented from three cases, where analysis of repetitive dreams of feeling embarrassment at being partially or totally naked was an important feature of the treatment. The indifference by the other people in the dream to the dreamer's nakedness was initially linked to perceived transference slights at the ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Myers WA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case study is provided of a schizoid patient in her mid-sixties who in a lengthy analysis had made significant clinical improvement. The treating analyst's impression of clinical improvement was independently verified through systematic analysis of transcripts of audiotapes of thirty-six sessions over a four-year pe...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Josephs L,Anderson E,Bernard A,Fatzer K,Streich J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper has two general sources: my own clinical psychoanalytic work extending over about four and one half decades; and consideration of certain outstandingly influential ideas in our literature: first, those of the pioneer contributors, and then those of certain more recent writers, whose views have sometimes exh...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Stone L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud was the first to apply psychoanalysis to art, choosing for his subject the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. Observing Leonardo's partly fused image of the Virgin and St. Anne, he inferred that the artist had depicted his two mothers, his biological mother and his stepmother. This very early analytic discourse...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Blum HP

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The choice of a particular language for the conduct of analysis becomes an important theoretical and clinical question when both the analyst and the analysand are multilingual and share the same languages. Shift from one language into another language during analysis is an equally important question. This paper offers...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Movahedi S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud used a spatial model of mental organization, derived from his explanation of aphasia, as an organizing framework for psychoanalytic theory. He introduced the ideas of representation and overdetermination to describe relations of the contents of systems that were joined to form, first, a hierarchical nervous syst...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Grossman WI

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is tentatively proposed that fragments of certain early perceptual experiences of the parental objects such as the sight of the face and the breast of the mother, the smiling or angry expression of the face, the pleasing or disagreeable character of the voice, the soft touch or rough handling, the sight of the hand...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Almansi RJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of therapeutic change is explored in two ways. The first is by providing a model of change that emphasizes moment-to-moment, "local-level" interactions in the analytic dyad. The second is to offer detailed clinical information--taken from the videotape of a child analyst's first session with a three-...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Harrison AM,Tronick EZ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoanalytic contributions to the theory of paranoia are reviewed. As a primary problem underlying paranoia, this paper emphasizes the importance of beating fantasy associated with a fragile personality structure rather than the theory of repressed homosexuality. Castration anxiety and homosexual conflict may precip...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Blum HP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been a growing interest in refining the technique of ego defense analysis. All of these approaches share in common an attempt to work closely with the patient's free associations, to interpret at a level that is accessible to the patient's consciously observing ego, and to avoid bypassing the...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Josephs L

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00