Changes in Reflective Functioning during Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies.

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：: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：:The author summarizes and develops some of her viewpoints on the perversions (outlined in several of the books and articles she has written). For her all the perversions, whatever their content, develop against an anal sadomasochistic backdrop. Their aim is to destroy reality. Reality, from a psychosexual perspective,...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Chasseguet-Smirgel J

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper takes up Romain Rolland's description of a nearly universal "oceanic feeling" and considers Freud's avowed disinterest in this concept. Herman Melville elaborates and expands the concept of the oceanic in the text of Moby Dick, juxtaposing Ishmael's oceanic reverie while up high on the masthead with Ahab's ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ackerman S

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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：:This paper explores a particular constellation of fantasies and defenses that in some women leads to the delay of childbearing. Destructive wishes towards the woman's own womb and her mother's lead to behaviors that sabotage fertility and pregnancy. These wishes and behaviors meet up with an unconscious belief in and ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Chodorow NJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：: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：:The author summarizes recent advances in neurobiological research which appear to offer compelling evidence that the most pathognomonic feature of schizophrenia, the deficit or negative syndrome, is associated with functional abnormalities in the frontal lobe of the brain. These brain abnormalities are correlated with...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Willick MS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's repression of Judaism and its cultural markers from the published "Rat Man" case history has been noted but never satisfactorily explained. This elision can be interpreted using Freud's suggestion that the paradigmatic "rat" represents (among other things) a circumcised penis marking an intergenerational, cove...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Atura A

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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

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：: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