The Pope's confessor: a metaphor relating to illness in the analyst.

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：: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：: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：:Analysis of the unconscious ego resistances is one of those clinical concepts more honored in the breach than in the observance. This same point has been made periodically over the past fifty years. It has not been sufficiently realized that a true psychoanalytic understanding of resistance analysis could only begin w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Busch F

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:It is tentatively proposed that fragments of certain early perceptual experiences of the parental objects such as the sight of the face and the breast of the mother, the smiling or angry expression of the face, the pleasing or disagreeable character of the voice, the soft touch or rough handling, the sight of the hand...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Almansi RJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the ventral tegmental pathway stimulates both dreaming and drug craving. To investigate a possible clinical link between these two psychic phenomena, psychotherapy notes from the first six months of an addicted patient's treatment were reviewed, together with verbatim notes from the four...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Johnson B

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:An overview of current explorations of the influence of gender on the psychoanalytic situation is presented. The topic does not lend itself to simple generalizations because the accumulated experience of several generations of psychoanalysts is now merging with newer views of psychoanalytic technique, while at the sam...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Kernberg OF

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conception of insight is proposed, based on a systems and information-processing framework and using current neuroscience concepts, as an integration of information that results in a new symbolization of experience with a significant change in self-image and a transformation of non-declarative procedural knowledge i...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rosenblatt A

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Unforgivability in Euripides' Medea is explored in the context of intrapsychic forces favoring disruption and narcissistic withdrawal and precluding the influence of forces favoring repair of bonds, not necessarily to the betrayer, but to the social and moral order. The forces underlying disruption and withdrawal oper...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Lansky MR

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:It is appropriate to conclude this study with a statement that characterizes Freud and his search for particular models, and this is: "A genius chooses his family from among heroes." His historical heroes were Cromwell, Napoleon, Masséna, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Adler, Lasalle, Lasker, and Wilson. Of course, toward many ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Szaluta J

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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：:As part of a long-term followup study of the outcome of psychoanalysis, we examined the relation between the extent of resolution of the transference at termination and the characteristics of the patient-analyst match. For twelve of the seventeen patients interviewed five to ten years after termination of psychoanalys...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Kantrowitz JL,Katz AL,Paolitto F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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