The reconstruction of early childhood trauma: fantasy, reality, and verification.

abstract：:A letter from Paula Heimann to her training analyst, Theodor Reik, written shortly before her emigration from Berlin to London, sheds light on some of the technical controversies and personal animosities that shaped psychoanalytic clinical discourse in the early 1930s, as well as on Heimann's subsequent development as...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Rolnik EJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Received wisdom on the history of countertransference rests on two assumptions: Freud said little about countertransference, and what he did say focused on its role as an impediment to analytic work; the emergence in the 1950s of a conception of countertransference as a crucial beneficial component of psychoanalysis w...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Holmes J

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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：:Brown, G.R. (2017). On Psychic Determinism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:423-446. (Original DOI: 10.1177/0003065117712519) On page 442 (lines 6-7) of Robin Gordon Brown's "On Psychic Determinism" (JAPA 65/3, pp. 423-446), "In his review of Dale Boesky's Do You Hear What I Hear? A Review of Psy...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors：

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasingly frequent clinical reports of the recovery of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse have drawn both skepticism and support in the analytic community. Two contrasting paradigms are offered to account for the processes by which fully repressed memories are recovered. On the one hand, the analyst's...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Brenneis CB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of Giorgio Morandi, the great twentieth-century Italian painter, departs from the model of Freud's essay on Leonardo, in which he creates a psychodynamic hypothesis by linking the art with facts and conjecture about the artist's life. Because personal information about Morandi is remarkably scarce, we can m...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Miller JD

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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 nature of therapeutic action varies not only with each patient's psychological predilection for utilizing opportunities for change, but also with the manner in which the analyst or therapist presents opportunity for change. Ideally, the therapist bases the latter on personally identifiable theoretical concepts and...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gray P

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Rapid advances in medical and biological technologies are changing the ways we are born, live, and die. Biotechnology is pushing us in our notion of what is possible, and tapping into our most primitive omnipotent fantasies. For the most part these new techniques have not yet been integrated into a shared social consc...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Zalusky S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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