Recurring thoughts on unconscious ego resistances.

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：:Terror of the dismemberment, disintegration, and decay of the body after death has been represented in ritual, myth, legend, art, and religious belief throughout the ages. So too has the wished-for triumph over these inevitable processes. Commonly, bodily experience after death is represented mentally in cannibalistic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gottlieb RM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Destructiveness in primitive personalities is not restricted to a segment of the person as it is in the case of neurotics, but is global and pervasive. This destructiveness is meaningfully configured in a manner which cannot fully be accounted for by constitutional factors or be comprehended from the individual, intra...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Robbins M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is in the best interest of psychoanalysis that new schools of thought (earlier examples of which are the classical, Kleinian, and self psychological perspectives) evolve. Generating a new school of thought, however, is almost impossible in this postmodern era. The postmodern paradigm in psychoanalysis (intersubject...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Govrin A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical material is presented leading to a discussion of beating fantasies which varies from Freud's model. Analysis shows that the fantasied role girls assign to mother as the punisher in the oedipal drama is equivalent to the fantasied role boys ascribe to father as castrator. For both sexes, castration anxiety spu...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lax RF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is postulated that the surface of the mind reflects a variety of shifting self-syntonic and self-dystonic contents striving to achieve a stable homeostatic balance. Shifts between self-syntonic and self-dystonic contents are seen to reflect an underlying intrasystemic conflict within the superego between conflictin...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Josephs L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of fewer psychiatrist applicants for psychoanalytic training, determining the interest of current psychiatric residents in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry is a pressing concern. To gauge this interest, an anonymous online survey was sent to residents from five psychiatry residency programs in t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Katz DA,Kaplan M

更新日期：2010-10-01 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

abstract：:Après-coup, Freud's Nachträglichkeit, is an essential psychoanalytic concept structuring each of four concepts, four mental processes that lie at the foundation of Freud's thinking: psychic trauma, repression, the creation of the unconscious, and the creation of infantile sexuality. It is argued here that infantile se...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： House J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's experience on the Acropolis is reviewed and reappraised. Also, the experience of Elie Wiesel at the Wall in Jerusalem and Patient X's reaction visiting an Egyptian temple are examined. Carl Jung's wish to go to Rome and his inability to do so are noted. The aim of the paper is to offer deeper understanding abo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Weiss SS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contrasting perspectives of historical (actual, material) truth as opposed to narrative (intrapsychic) truth in psychoanalytic reconstruction parallel the controversial shift in Freud's thinking from a traumatic theory of neurosogenesis to a greater emphasis on fantasy and psychic reality. Freud and analysts since...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Good MI

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：:The German physicist and writer Lichtenberg (1742-1799) was well known during the nineteenth century as a humorist, thinker, and psychologist. He was also a favorite author of Freud, who read him beginning in his teens, quoted him frequently, and called him a "remarkable psychologist." Despite this, he has been ignore...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Tomlinson C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper sets out some of the main differences in approaches to the study of female sexuality, in particular in terms of the place of the body and biology in the construction of femininity. It illustrates a dual aspect of femininity in its reference to lack and in its more immediate bodily reality, suggesting that i...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Birksted-Breen D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation reports on the execution of an empirical strategy for testing agreement in complex clinical psychoanalytic propositions, and for testing whether stereotypical assumptions are overridden (revised) by the specific character of the patient's narrative. The findings reveal that, in general, for t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Caston J,Martin E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional psychoanalytic theories of development hold that the adult neurotic can regress, or has already regressed, to the childhood arrests and/or fixations in which his pathology originated. More recent critiques have called this possibility into question. It is unlikely that anyone can roll back the additions an...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rizzolo GS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What follows are guidelines for rescue teams dedicated to suicide prevention for psychoanalytic institutes and societies. They provide a general orientation and presuppose intensive individual and organizational training by the rescue teams. Some general notes of caution: suicide prevention is a complex, delicate effo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Kernberg OF

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an institute research class, the validity of Lewin's methodology in his manifest dream exercise was tested by a different approach. Class members developed a questionnaire based on two actual manifest dreams. Responses from six analytic candidates and fifteen graduate analysts were analyzed by two classroom groups,...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Allison GH,Loeb F,Spain DH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tennessee Williams called his first great work, The Glass Menagerie, his "memory play." The situation in which Williams found himself when he began writing the play is explored, as are the ways in which he used the declarative memory of his protagonist, Tom Wingfield, to express and deal with his own painful conflicts...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Jacobs D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the professional development of early career analysts, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research initiated a prospective longitudinal study of its graduates beginning in June 2003. Twenty-six of 29 graduates (90%) have completed confidential baseline questionnaires fo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Cherry S,Wininger L,Roose SP

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enactment as a concept can serve analytic discourse through its established meaning of an act intended strongly to influence, persuade, or force another to react. We might agree to use the term in two complementary ways: Broadly, enactment can designate all behaviors of both parties in the analytic relationship, even ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： McLaughlin JT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1973 Robert Stoller wrote a paper on a series of dreams-his own and his patients'--that he reluctantly found himself calling "telepathic." He never submitted the paper for publication, though he returned to the topic of unconscious communication and telepathy with increasing fascination in the years before his deat...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Mayer EL

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：: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：:It is appropriate to conclude this study with a statement that characterizes Freud and his search for particular models, and this is: "A genius chooses his family from among heroes." His historical heroes were Cromwell, Napoleon, Masséna, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Adler, Lasalle, Lasker, and Wilson. Of course, toward many ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Szaluta J

更新日期：1983-01-01 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