"Too late": ambivalence about motherhood, choice, and time.

abstract：:Analysts use the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity to support many different technical recommendations; this represents a misuse of theory. The dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity is a false one. Arguing against the notion of objectivity, analysts conflate it with the idealized notion of pure o...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Smith HF

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:There are two phases in the process of negotiating for peace with antagonistic national groups. The leader (or leaders) of one such group will not negotiate with his opposite number until political foundations to support such negotiation are laid down, and obstacles to peace identified and dealt with; at least some me...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Volkan VD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of analytic interpretation is conditioned by a number of factors within the patient, within the analyst, and within the analytic situation. I will focus on one of these factors, part of the technical activity of the analyst that I will call follow-up interpretation, one which omitted, or even slighte...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Schlesinger HJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time is an important source of containment vis-à-vis the pressure of affects and the nondimensional immensity of mental space experienced by difficult patients. A more articulated spatiotemporal integration can be facilitated by the analyst's musical "reverie" during intense emotional exchanges in analytic sessions. T...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lombardi R

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：:An overview of current explorations of the influence of gender on the psychoanalytic situation is presented. The topic does not lend itself to simple generalizations because the accumulated experience of several generations of psychoanalysts is now merging with newer views of psychoanalytic technique, while at the sam...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Kernberg OF

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (1905a,b) is well recognized for making psychoanalytic history. In the Dora paper Freud first publicized a new theory of the etiology of neurosis that made fantasy and repression central. And yet the paper also refers to trauma and seduction. What role do they pl...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ahbel-Rappe K

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The concept of symbiosis is a powerful one expressing a significant emotional experience for many individuals. However, the concept needs to be differentiated from infant-stage symbiosis, Margaret Mahler's second stage of normal development. The latter idea, according to Pine (2004), was of "central" importance to Mah...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Silverman D

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Freud's theories of psychosexual development, while highly original, were anchored in the explosion of scientific studies of sex in the nineteenth century. Most of these studies were based on masturbation, homosexuality, and deviance, with little attention given to normal sexuality. Around the turn of the century, the...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Person ES

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：: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：:The traditional psychoanalytic view of menopause regards it as inevitably accompanied by reactive depression resulting from the loss of reproductive function. This view is grounded on a theory of female sexual development that stresses the centrality of the phallic castration complex. The inevitable menopausal depress...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Bemesderfer S

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：:This paper limits itself to abstract art the better to concentrate on the relation between the emotionally expressive power of esthetic form--apart from its narrative content--and emotional responsiveness. The emotionally expressive power of art--not to be confused with the artist's own emotions--has to do with the wa...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rose GJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A letter from Paula Heimann to her training analyst, Theodor Reik, written shortly before her emigration from Berlin to London, sheds light on some of the technical controversies and personal animosities that shaped psychoanalytic clinical discourse in the early 1930s, as well as on Heimann's subsequent development as...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rolnik EJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type of patient is described, who has marked intolerance of taking responsibility for his internal conflicts so as to confront them, analyze them, and change. Defensive repetition in pathological object relations aims to avoid what is wrong within and to engage another so as to protect oneself. Genetic, dynamic, and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Coen SJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoanalysis has seen a shift in emphasis regarding therapeutic action and technique. A predominant focus on the uncovering or reintegrating of repressed, disguised, or split-off contents has moved to include the intersubjective creation, development, and strengthening of psychic processes and capabilities. The anal...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Levine HB

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both research and clinical work have revealed factors that can lead to the onset and persistence of panic disorder. Preoedipal conflicts intensify the danger of oedipal longings for panic patients. Competition with the same-sex parent is linked with angry preoedipal fantasies and associated fears of disruption in atta...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Busch FN,Milrod BL,Rudden M,Shapiro T,Singer M,Aronson A,Roiphe J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phase in the analysis of a young man is presented, demonstrating evidence of maternal sexual overstimulation from infancy through early adulthood. A consequence of this overstimulation was a regression to an unstable gender identity. The developmental line of gender identity proved useful in understanding this man's...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Beatrice J

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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