The process of interpretation and the moment of change.

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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:As a pilot investigation for a longitudinal study of psychoanalytic careers, a survey was conducted of analysts who graduated during the last fifteen years from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Graduates were asked to describe both their analytic practice and their interest in p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Cherry S,Cabaniss DL,Forand N,Haywood D,Roose SP

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Observations made in a nursery setting of 22 infants 9 to 12 months old suggest that girls become aware of psychological separateness earlier than do boys. The nature of the infant's means of coping, the relation to mother and to play objects, and maternal handling differences are also reported. Implications for gende...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Olesker W

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：: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：:A case is made for community-based psychoanalysis as part of usual psychoanalytic practice. A safe community is first defined psychodynamically, after which three variations are presented on the community-based style and qualities and modes of practice compared with individual psychoanalytic therapy and psychoanalysis...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Twemlow SW

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：: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：:This paper is intended as a contribution to the understanding of errors in our field. The title refers to the index entries "incest" in several classic psychoanalytic texts. In a way that is analogous to the defenses utilized by survivors of incest, psychoanalysis has both known and not known, avowed and disavowed, th...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Simon B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper has two general sources: my own clinical psychoanalytic work extending over about four and one half decades; and consideration of certain outstandingly influential ideas in our literature: first, those of the pioneer contributors, and then those of certain more recent writers, whose views have sometimes exh...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Stone L

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:From the widely diverse category of so-called mirror dreams, we have differentiated the most frequent, which we have designated the common mirror dream (CMD). It is one in which the dreamer at some point looks into a mirror and reports seeing himself, a part of himself or a distorted though recognizable version of him...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Coen SJ,Bradlow PA

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:I have discussed an aspect of the problem of countertransference that has received little comment--the relation of the analyst to objects in his patient's world. Emotional reactions stimulated in the analyst by his perception of such objects can have a profound effect on the course and outcome of his analytic work. Su...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Jacobs TJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Awkward moments often arise between patient and analyst involving the question, "What do we call each other?" The manner in which the dyad address each other contains material central to the patient's inner life. Names, like dreams, deserve a privileged status as providing a royal road into the paradoxical analytic re...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Barron GC

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：: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：: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