@article{Blum, author = {Blum, Harold P.}, title = {Welcome to >Parent-Infant Disturbance: Theory and Therapy<}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 008-009.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 008-009.}, abstract = {The initiator of the conference and (together with Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor) conference co-chair, Harold Blum, introduces the objectives of the interdisciplinary and psychoanalytic conference on >Parent-Infant Disturbance: Theory and Therapy.< In the epilogue, the author brings up the coincident Paris terrorist attack of November 13, 2015 - the first day of this two-day conference.}, language = {en} } @article{Blum, author = {Blum, Harold P.}, title = {The mother's mental representation of her infant}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 064-069.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 26 (No. 1, 2017), pp. 064-069.}, abstract = {The mother's intrapsychic mental representation of her infant begins before pregnancy and is modified during pregnancy and thereafter. Parents have conscious expectations and unconscious fantasies about their infant, which are all too often not consistent with reality. Early intervention in infant-parent disturbances is important for repair of the relationship and prevention of later pathogenic development. A clinical example of a mother's unconscious ambivalent mental representations of her infant is presented.}, language = {en} } @article{BlumBlum, author = {Blum, Harold P. and Blum, Elsa J.}, title = {Evolution of Freudian psychoanalytic thought in the twentieth-century USA: The influence of the European {\´e}migr{\´e}s (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1984576)}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 2, 2023), pp. 087-092.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 2, 2023), pp. 087-092.}, abstract = {This paper briefly reviews major theoretical and clinical changes in American psychoanalysis since its beginning in the early twentieth century. The immigration of European analysts in the 1930s and 40s was of major significance. Infant development research promoted a shift towards the importance of object relations, reducing the importance of the Oedipus complex. The increasing focus on narcissism and borderline personalities is discussed, as well as the applications to dynamic psychotherapy. Dogma dissipated with increasing latitude in theory and clinical work within >classical< psychoanalysis.}, language = {en} } @article{Blum, author = {Blum, Harold P.}, title = {Childhood trauma, unconscious conflict and developmental transformation}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 165-172.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 165-172.}, abstract = {Trauma is the subject of increasing attention in contemporary psychoanalysis. Its complexities will be explored in a clinical case, emphasizing traumatic experience and unconscious conflict across developmental phases. The patient, a young adult white man began analysis complaining of anxiety and depression. Born to adolescent parents, he had experienced infantile stress and childhood traumatic illness. Needy, greedy, and dependent, he was gratified by the frequency and intimacy of psychoanalysis. Genetic interpretation and reconstruction were particularly important in the analytic process. Analytic progress with attenuation of unconscious conflict and developmental transformation proved enduring after termination.}, language = {en} }