@article{Frommer, author = {Frommer, Martin Stephen}, title = {What's American About American Psychoanalysis?}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 549-577.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 549-577.}, abstract = {The author makes use of Glennon's and Cole's discussions to elaborate the relationship between our conceptions of self and the ways in which we understand the experience of loss. In discussing the intrapsychic self, the self as it is constituted through the process of relating and the existential self, he argues that when we make room for multiplicity and the complex, dynamic interplay of diverse self states and modes of experiencing, these different conceptions of self both enhance and complement our experience of loss.}, language = {en} } @article{Frommer, author = {Frommer, Martin Stephen}, title = {What Can Institutes Do-: Commentary on Paper by Randall Lehmann Sorenson}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 479-498.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 479-498.}, abstract = {Our mortality - the fact that we will die and that we know it - defines the human condition, although this knowledge is often defensively maintained psychically as a theoretical, intellectual proposition. This paper explores one route by which such knowledge is transformed into felt experience: I suggest that how we mourn - what occurs psychically as we live the pain of loss - strongly influences our relationship to our own deaths. Because the psychic labor involved in making mortality real has compelling individual and social consequences, I position the role of the psychoanalyst as well as intersubjective aspects of the psychoanalytic process as central to helping patients grapple with their own mortality.}, language = {en} } @article{Frommer, author = {Frommer, Martin Stephen}, title = {Theoretical metaphors in psychoanalysis a constructivist. Commentary on John Lindon's >gratification and provision in psychoanalysis<}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 033-045.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 033-045.}, abstract = {This author examines the concept of forgiveness as a psychological construct. He argues that it is an error to conceive of the capacity to forgive in exclusively intrapsychic terms, pointing to the mutual influence of psychic and interpersonal experience in the struggle to forgive. He suggests that we can meaningfully consider the psychic challenges involved in any instance of forgiving only when we can fully understand the relational context in which the wrongdoing has taken place. The author then considers the concept of forgiveness when applied to hate crimes in general and Matthew Shepard's murder in particular, exploring some psychic alternatives to forgiveness that may be useful in thinking about the human struggle to resolve the mental anguish and desire for revenge that can threaten to undo us. He argues against an agenda-based approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is biased toward encouraging forgiveness and seeing it as an indispensable component of psychological health. If forgiveness is to function as a viable psychological construct with real healing potential in human relationships, psychoanalysts must work to free it from its moralistic and religious moorings.}, language = {en} }