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：: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：:The discourse on psychic bisexuality is explored as it unfolds in Freud's writings, in contemporary papers by LGBTQ psychoanalysts, and in a volume of essays, Psychic Bisexuality, published in 2018 by a group of prominent French and British analysts (Perelberg 2018). The greater acceptance of nonnormative sexualities ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Gulati R,Pauley D

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper takes up Romain Rolland's description of a nearly universal "oceanic feeling" and considers Freud's avowed disinterest in this concept. Herman Melville elaborates and expands the concept of the oceanic in the text of Moby Dick, juxtaposing Ishmael's oceanic reverie while up high on the masthead with Ahab's ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ackerman S

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Dave Eggers's memoir is an important addition to the tradition of autobiography in America, and offers significant contributions to our understanding of creativity, sublimation, and the psychology of the memoir-writing process. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is really two books--an autobiographical narrativ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Miller E

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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：:In the face of fewer psychiatrist applicants for psychoanalytic training, determining the interest of current psychiatric residents in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry is a pressing concern. To gauge this interest, an anonymous online survey was sent to residents from five psychiatry residency programs in t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Katz DA,Kaplan M

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Psychoanalysis has paid scant attention to the role of grandparenthood, especially as it may appear in treatment. Clinical material is presented to illustrate the transference-countertransference phenomenon of what will be called the good grandparent; this is not an uncommon occurrence in the treatment of patients who...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Imber RR

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:In 2002 a pilot program was established under the auspices of the American Psychoanalytic Association, with the participation of four of its institutes, to study the feasibility of creating a separate training track in child analysis without the requirement of previous adult analytic training. The program, which ran f...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Morales J,Farley AJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freud's "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (1905a,b) is well recognized for making psychoanalytic history. In the Dora paper Freud first publicized a new theory of the etiology of neurosis that made fantasy and repression central. And yet the paper also refers to trauma and seduction. What role do they pl...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Ahbel-Rappe K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the professional development of early career analysts, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research initiated a prospective longitudinal study of its graduates beginning in June 2003. Twenty-six of 29 graduates (90%) have completed confidential baseline questionnaires fo...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Cherry S,Wininger L,Roose SP

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:An English translation of a previously unknown manuscript by Freud is presented. The manuscript, originally prepared in 1931 for William Bullitt's psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, provides a general theoretical introduction to psychoanalysis. It also includes an original interpretation of Christianity that postulate...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Solms M

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:It is in the best interest of psychoanalysis that new schools of thought (earlier examples of which are the classical, Kleinian, and self psychological perspectives) evolve. Generating a new school of thought, however, is almost impossible in this postmodern era. The postmodern paradigm in psychoanalysis (intersubject...

journal_title：Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

authors： Govrin A

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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