Lawfulness in lexical choice: a natural experiment.

abstract：:In 1973 Robert Stoller wrote a paper on a series of dreams-his own and his patients'--that he reluctantly found himself calling "telepathic." He never submitted the paper for publication, though he returned to the topic of unconscious communication and telepathy with increasing fascination in the years before his deat...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Mayer EL

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：:The author surveys his work with gay and bisexual men and his evolving clinical understanding, spanning a thirty-five-year period from 1965 to 2000. Four cases are discussed briefly, one from each decade, to illustrate the changing clinical approach, and the following conclusions drawn: (1) sexual orientation and ment...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Roughton RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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