The role of insight in psychoanalysis.

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：: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：:The choice of specific words during face-to-face conversations may be just as overdetermined as the choice of words during free association. To explore this hypothesis, we looked in detail at three words used by patients who were at risk for cervical cancer and who were interviewed during a hospital visit for cone bio...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Spence DP

更新日期：1980-01-01 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

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 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：: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：: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：:Why do most people experience a subjective aversion to the idea of incestuous sexual relations? To help answer this question, recent strands of thinking in both cultural and evolutionary anthropology are considered together with psychoanalytic theories regarding incest avoidance. Coevolutionary theories that propose w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Paul RA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Didactic education in psychoanalytic ethics is a relatively new phenomenon. Ethics courses were offered by few institutes before they were mandated and before publication of the first Ethics Case Book in 2001. As institutes have developed ethics training, the solutions they have arrived at-formats, length and placemen...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ransohoff PM

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：: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 understanding of therapeutic change is explored in two ways. The first is by providing a model of change that emphasizes moment-to-moment, "local-level" interactions in the analytic dyad. The second is to offer detailed clinical information--taken from the videotape of a child analyst's first session with a three-...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Harrison AM,Tronick EZ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical material is presented from two patients where hypochondriacal symptoms were seen to be derivatives of unconscious fantasies of being beaten or tortured. The shift along the masochistic axis from these underlying fantasies to the conscious hypochondriacal symptoms is seen as subserving the important defensive ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Broden AR,Myers WA

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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：: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：:We would do better ethically and scientifically if throughout the process of writing and publication, we let our patients review our reports of them. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Stoller RJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：:A psychosomatic model of dissociation is proposed that addresses the ever adjusting mind-body relation-the constant titration of the quality and degree of the psyche's embeddedness in the sensorial and temporal life of the body. The model highlights the function of hypnoid mechanisms (autohypnosis, distraction, somati...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Goldberg P

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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