@article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Mental collapse as "disorganized attachment": A dynamic understanding for clinicians}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 173-179.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 173-179.}, abstract = {Unresolved loss and unresolved trauma in adult mothers, and the commonly disorganized attachment pattern developed by their infants, have been repeatedly reported in longitudinal research literature as a crucial correlate or precedent of severe pathology. We describe and illustrate how unresolved loss and unresolved trauma are manifested in verbatim-transcribed language and how they are to be detected, so that psychoanalysts and clinicians in general are able to distinguish them and understand how such >states of mind< evidence the process of fragmentation they involve. We follow each example with a resolved transcript so it can be contrasted with a nonresolved case. We then describe excerpts of a taped >disorganized infant< - an example of infants who are usually babies of unresolved mothers, as shown during the Adult Attachment Interview. The analyst's ability to identify and understand these >states of mind< and the subsequent sensitive reflection on the transcendental role of primary traumatic relations, which are involved in fear and the destructive dynamics of mental fragmentation - as seen in empirical research on attachment - can facilitate a resourceful integrative analytic scrutiny of the processes gone through by patients, and encourage the discovery of alternatives for working through the disturbing experience.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Developmental Roots of Productive and Unproductive Social Character Traits}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 199-210.}, volume = {e23/2019q}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 199-210.}, abstract = {A longitudinal study of early attachment and social character development of 14 Nahuat mother-infant dyads -since the infants were 11 months, having assessed them at 9 years of age and again in their late adolescence- show a significant improvement on the youngsters' emotional development. The study conducted by the Seminario de Sociopsicoan{\´a}lisis within a 40-year-long humanizing project in the village, called >Intercultural Participation Project,< suggests the benefit of promoting the rescue of their indigenous Nahuat culture and tradition.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Identidad en la selva de asfalto}, series = {Revista de la Universidad de M{\´e}xico. Nueva Epoca, No. 828 (Septiembre 2017), pp. 94-100.}, journal = {Revista de la Universidad de M{\´e}xico. Nueva Epoca, No. 828 (Septiembre 2017), pp. 94-100.}, language = {es} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Comprender la motivaci{\´o}n social para estimular el desarrollo de los ni{\~n}os}, series = {R. Funk y N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Hacia una ciencia humana. La relevancia de Erich Fromm en la actualidad, M{\´e}xico (Demac), pp. 201-214.}, journal = {R. Funk y N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Hacia una ciencia humana. La relevancia de Erich Fromm en la actualidad, M{\´e}xico (Demac), pp. 201-214.}, abstract = {Un grupo de psicoanalistas celebr{\´o} el Seminario de Sociopsicoan{\´a}lisis para ampliar el punto de vista cl{\´i}nico que hab{\´i}a adquirido por medio de su trabajo con pacientes en el marco de una pr{\´a}ctica privada. En esta ponencia describimos la investigaci{\´o}n de una acci{\´o}n participativa emprendida por una comunidad. Empezamos entrevistando a ni{\~n}os pobres y despose{\´i}dos, primero en un pueblo de mineros y despu{\´e}s en un centro para ni{\~n}os en situaci{\´o}n de calle. Se incluyen un estudio sobre Apego y car{\´a}cter social de las madres y los ni{\~n}os, as{\´i} como la evaluaci{\´o}n sistem{\´a}tica de las motivaciones inconscientes de las respuestas de los individuos al cuestionario interpretativo social. Nos esforzamos por devolver a las propias comunidades los hallazgos de los estudios del car{\´a}cter social. Nuestro prop{\´o}sito es apoyar o fomentar las posibilidades de iniciar proyectos de acci{\´o}n participativa basados en las comunidades, encaminados a transformar la calidad de vida y a enfrentar las dificultades y superar los obst{\´a}culos que surgen en el camino hacia el cambio; asimismo, esperamos que nuestra investigaci{\´o}n ayude a impulsar el desarrollo de pol{\´i}ticas para el cuidado de la salud de los ni{\~n}os.}, language = {es} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Understanding Social Motivation for Encouraging Children's Development. Social Character Studies in Mexico}, series = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 1499-158.}, journal = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 1499-158.}, abstract = {A group of psychoanalysts led the Seminario de Sociopsicoan{\´a}lisis to broaden their clinical perspective gained through working with patients in the setting of a private practice. In this paper we describe participatory action research initiated by a community. We started by interviewing impoverished and economically disadvantaged children, first from a miner's village and later on from a center for children living in the streets. A study on Attachment and Social Character of mothers and children as well as the systematic appraisal of the unconscious motivations in the individual's responses to the Social Interpretative Questionnaire are presented. We strive to bring the findings of our social character studies back to the communities themselves. Our purpose is to support or foster possibilities for initiating participatory community-based action projects, aimed at transforming the quality of life and to confront the difficulties and obstacles that emerge on the path to change; furthermore we hope that our research will help to stimulate the development of childcare health policies.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia}, title = {Development of Latin-American Societies in the IFPS}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 2, 2014), pp. 104-110.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 2, 2014), pp. 104-110.}, abstract = {The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) was created to achieve an open, plural spirit, not constrained by any single psychoanalytic theory, such that one of its main aims was to >avoid the bureaucratization of its theory.< The IFPS did not intend to turn its back on the statements of early psychoanalysis; instead, it sought to use them as a basis for proposing and developing the theory of psychoanalysis. These same aims and origins served as an inspiration for each of the Latin-American societies that would gain affiliation to IFPS over the years. The Sociedad Psicoanal{\´i}tica Mexicana AC, under the guidance and representation of Erich Fromm, played a central role in the creation of the IFPS. A brief account of the participation, affiliation, and development of each of the six affiliated Latin-American Societies - from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile - and one Study Group in Argentina will be described.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Prologo}, series = {Memorias, ed. by Sociedad Psicoanal{\´i}tica Mexicana, Vol. I, M{\´e}xico (Instituto Mexicano de Psicoanalisis) 1980, pp. 7-8.}, journal = {Memorias, ed. by Sociedad Psicoanal{\´i}tica Mexicana, Vol. I, M{\´e}xico (Instituto Mexicano de Psicoanalisis) 1980, pp. 7-8.}, language = {es} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillanetal, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador and et al.,}, title = {Care Giving and Social Character. Towards a Systematization of the Clinical Assessment of Social Character Traits and Their Relation to Mothers' Care Giving Quality in Urban/Rural Mexican Samples}, series = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 35-46.}, volume = {e17/2013e}, journal = {Fromm Forum (English Edition - ISSN 1437-1189), 17 / 2013, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 35-46.}, abstract = {The theory of social character developed by Erich Fromm asserts that the significance of experience is intimately linked to the material conditions under which persons, located in a specific economic system, live. The shared character traits thus correspond to the social role that these persons play. In the case of women, existing literature does not focus on their function as reproducers of the work force within the family, although this is a generalized function and additional to out-of-home work. This function has a transcendent importance to the development and emotional health of children, as has been established in longitudinal research of attachment theory. This study explores Mexican mothers' shared character traits, a systematized appraisal of their attitudes towards their lives and their children, their states of mind, and the quality of care they provide as well as their relationship to attachment patterns of their infants; some come from urban Middle, Middle-upper and Upper-class families and others from Poor in-digenous peasant families. The fundamental focus is on the woman's participation inside the family, although it does not exclude the possibility that some of these mothers handle not only the care giving and housework but also work outside of the home (the "double shift"). It concludes that the daily material conditions of existence are closely related to shared character traits and that these are in turn related to patterns of attachment in their infants, their sensitivity in the treatment of their babies, and the results of their Adult Attachment Interviews. Women have been the sup-port and pillar of subsistence for urban populations as well as the most poor and disadvan-taged communities. This role played by women is as widespread as undocumented in litera-ture.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia}, title = {Postmondern contextualism. Meaning and the Theory of Social Character. Paper presented at the IFPS XI International Forum in New York, May 4-7, 2000. Typescript 3 pp.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia}, title = {Contextualismo postmoderno, significado y la teor{\´i}a del char{\´a}cter social. Paper presented at the IFPS XI International Forum in New York, May 4-7, 2000. Typescript 7 p.}, number = {unpublished version / unver{\"o}ffentlichte Fassung}, language = {es} }