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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：: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：: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：:Psychoanalysis via telephone is becoming increasingly prevalent while remaining an area of comparatively little study. The author's early telephone treatment of a series of patients living some distance away or engaged in business travel, and his subsequent telephone treatment of nine analytic and five psychotherapy p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Leffert M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child psychoanalysts have long viewed play as a reflection of children's inner lives and have used the themes children represent in play for diagnostic and therapeutic work. Given the central role children's play has for clinical work, few studies have addressed play empirically. This paper presents a technique for st...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Marans S,Mayes L,Cicchetti D,Dahl K,Marans W,Cohen DJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Enacted processes--variously addressed in the current literature by such terms as enactment, actualization, and interaction--represent the conceptual reuniting of Freud's concepts of transference and acting out. These various concepts include a recognition that transference may be represented not only on the verbally ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Katz GA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of phallic-narcissistic personality is presented to demonstrate the intermingling of oedipal and narcissistic transferences and to suggest a therapeutic rationale for the analytic treatment of similar cases. The therapeutic approach to dealing with the narcissistic configurations involves: Empathic and receptiv...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Meissner WW

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Psychoanalysis has paid scant attention to the role of grandparenthood, especially as it may appear in treatment. Clinical material is presented to illustrate the transference-countertransference phenomenon of what will be called the good grandparent; this is not an uncommon occurrence in the treatment of patients who...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Imber RR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines some of the internal and external eventualities in the situation of illness in the analyst. The current emphasis on the use of the self as part of the analyzing instrument makes impairments in the analyst's physical well-being potentially disabling to the analytic work. A recommendation is made for...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Clark RW

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:An attempt is made to place bestophilia in cultural, clinical, and theoretical perspective. Archeological and anthropological documentation and records of the widespread appearance in mythology of this practice are cited. This archaic form of perversion is still practiced in rural environments and isolated communities...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Traub-Werner D

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:As a literary genre, science fiction has been largely ignored by psychoanalysis. Science fiction lends itself well to analytic interpretations since its structure embraces an attitude of "cognitive estrangement" (a term that defines the genre). Science fiction allows for the exploration of new and different permutatio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Bick IJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical work of psychoanalysts can be thought of in both a narrow and a broad sense. In the narrow sense, it refers to what is commonly thought of as psychoanalytic technique, the methods analysts use to understand their patients and to convey that understanding to them. In the broad sense, it refers to the entir...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Pulver SE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines how reflective functioning (RF) can be assessed in analytic sessions and throughout psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The goals are to replicate in part a study by Josephs and colleagues (2004) by applying the RF Scale to analytic sessions and to study fluctuations of RF within each session. Additional...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Hörz-Sagstetter S,Mertens W,Isphording S,Buchheim A,Taubner S

更新日期：2015-06-01 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 2002 a pilot program was established under the auspices of the American Psychoanalytic Association, with the participation of four of its institutes, to study the feasibility of creating a separate training track in child analysis without the requirement of previous adult analytic training. The program, which ran f...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Morales J,Farley AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Freud (1905, 1917, 1937) throughout his lifetime sought empirical scientific confirmation of the validity of his discoveries. In pursuit of this goal, he persistently emphasized the importance of establishing agreement between analytic reconstructions and the results of naturalistic child observation. The same objecti...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Barglow P,Jaffe CM,Vaughn B

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Psychoanalysts have tended to view the diagnosis of AD/HD either with skepticism or as a contraindication to analytic treatment. The author reviews the history of this puzzling diagnostic entity, which is estimated to account for up to fifty percent of child referrals, and suggests that a psychoanalytic perspective on...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gilmore K

更新日期：2000-01-01 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 small computer-assisted word frequency analysis, indicating the extent of explicit concern with sexuality in the psychoanalytic literature, has revealed an apparent decline of psychoanalytic interest in psychosexuality. The apparent decline may be related to the limitations of drive theory and object relations appro...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Fonagy P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00