Sadomasochism in the perversions: some thoughts on the destruction of reality.

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：:As a pilot investigation for a longitudinal study of psychoanalytic careers, a survey was conducted of analysts who graduated during the last fifteen years from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Graduates were asked to describe both their analytic practice and their interest in p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Cherry S,Cabaniss DL,Forand N,Haywood D,Roose SP

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:In 1956, the year before his death, Ernst Kris published a trilogy of papers on memory--"The Personal Myth," "On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in Psychoanalysis," and "The Recovery of Childhood Memories"--and was planning to publish a monograph on the subject. In his papers on memory, by juxtaposing his clinical work w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Thompson NL

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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 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：: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 cental thesis of Paul Gray's work is that a "developmental lag" pervades modern psychoanalysis in its failure to assimilate and apply knowledge gained about the role of the unconscious ego in intrapsychic life. But Gray himself, it is proposed, has become a victim of a new "developmental lag," of his own constructio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Phillips SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite universal agreement about the importance of transference, there is no single, comprehensive, generally accepted explanation for the place transference occupies in clinical psychoanalytic theory. In this presentation, I trace the origins of some major trends prominent in theoretical controversy to their anteced...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Abend SM

更新日期：1993-01-01 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 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：: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：:I have described some of the vicissitudes of acquiring insight in both child and adult analysis, giving particular attention to the part played by the ego's synthetic, organizing, or integrating function. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Neubauer PB

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Mandated use of the couch-whether specifically stated or tacitly communicated by supervisors and colleagues-to fulfill requirements for graduation or certification is a significant disservice to candidates and their patients. In its training standards, it is argued, APsaA and its member institutes should state explici...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Blakeman R,Goldberger M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：: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 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：:Psychoanalytic Supportive Psychotherapy (PSP) is described as a distinct psychotherapeutic method rooted in the psychoanalytic frame of reference. It is argued (a) that PSP is psychotherapy and indeed a therapeutic modality on its own, (b) that it is supportive, and (c) that it is psychoanalytic. PSP is characterized ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： De Jonghe F,Rijnierse P,Janssen R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sidney Blatt personified in many ways the striving toward an inclusive, broad-minded, nonsectarian, and nondogmatic psychoanalysis. Intrigued and inspired by many trends in psychoanalytic thought and neighboring disciplines, he believed deeply in the coexistence and mutual contributions of a psychoanalytic clinical pr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Berman E

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：: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 this issue we begin an experiment. John Gedo has graciously given us permission to publish his plenary address with a series of brief commentaries, which are followed by a response ("Encore") from Dr. Gedo. You will note that some of the discussants take up an aspect of his point of view, while others elaborate on ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Smith HF

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:The etymology of the word success and its relationship to succession is elucidated. Linkage is made to the consequences of unconscious "legitimate" and "illicit" fulfillments in life. This is explored in the writings of Freud and others. Emphasis is placed on guilt, a major factor blocking the attainment of success. T...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Marill IH,Siegel ER

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is child analysis really analysis? The child patient does not free associate, communicates to the analyst in large measure nonverbally, and operates from a different psychic organization than the adult. Nevertheless, child and adult analysis share the same basic principles, despite different techniques. Using clinical...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Yanof J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00