TY - JOUR A1 - Novak, Alexandra Nicole A1 - Luedemann, Jonas A1 - Andreas, Sylke T1 - When patients probe the analyst: Manifestations of patient testing and its complexity – An in-depth exploration of case examples of extant research JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 1, 2023), pp. 023-039. N2 - Patients probe the analyst with the goal of challenging pathogenic adaptations to early experiences. As the core concept of control mastery theory (CMT), testing is contextualized within psychoanalytic theory. The current work examines 29 articles illustrating therapies performed or analyzed using the CMT approach for the occurrence of testing, which takes place through interaction, self-presentation, narratives, or the use of the setting. The various manifestations of testing and their potential meanings are described. An in-depth analysis of selected testing examples is performed to compare tests within patients and across studies. The results show that patients differ in their testing strategies, shift testing strategy during the process of treatment, combine tests, and test multiple conflictual themes within a single test. Therefore, the importance of applying a case-specific approach, based on a thorough understanding of a patient, becomes evident. Recommendations concerning psychoanalytic technique, including the role of interpretation, as illustrated in case vignettes, are introduced. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Solano, Paola A1 - Vargiu, Michele A1 - Zaitseva, Ksenia T1 - Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 2, 2023), pp. 070-075. N2 - What is the real experience of war? How does our mind react to the sudden threats and losses of our lives, homes, and beloved objects? What understandings can it offer to make sense of the atrocities it witnesses? What adjustments can we carry out in these circumstances? Two colleagues from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and affiliated to the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group help us to shed light on these questions by sharing their personal experience and understandings of the current war that started on February 24, 2022 when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. This contribution aims to report their voices and the emotional experience of encountering their stories in order to provide readers with an unsaturated and unmediated contact with at least some aspects of the reality of war. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chinoperekweyi, Justine T1 - Transformational Consulting: Shifting from Consultant – Centered Solutions to Client-centered Solutions JF - Management Consulting Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2023), pp. 15-23. [Online ISSN: 2631-987X] [doi.org/10.2478/mcj-2023-0003] N2 - Consulting has evolved significantly over the years. This is in response to the changing operating environment and the emerging needs of organizations. To enrich client-consultant relationships, this article explores the changing philosophical positions around consulting and some of the applied techniques to make consulting an instrument of help in organizations. To enhance understanding of the varying consulting approaches, the article covers consulting approaches from Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, and Patrick Trottier. The philosophical positions and insights from their work will support the emerging consultant in deepening transformational consulting. Through a review of the literature and reflecting on the author’s consulting practice, the article summarizes approaches to enhance transformational consulting. These approaches advance the humanistic paradigm and as such promotes the co-creation of solutions with the client system. The article positions the Use of Self and Action Research as fundamental to enriching consultants’ productive impact. In addition, the article highlights four strength-based models that enrich the design of client-centered solutions. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maliszewski, Krzysztof T1 - To not nurture a war – education against violence (Girard – Patočka) JF - Studia z Teorii Wychowania, Vol. 14, No. 2 (43) (2023), pp. 357-368. [Online ISSN 2719-4078] [sztw.chat.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=613665] N2 - The author is primarily interested in violence in the form of joining Girard's persecution crowd. Thus, the text concerns violence not in the general sense as the use of force to break resistance, nor symbolic violence in the sense of Pierre Bourdieu, but in the sense of human disposition to retaliate and persecution – in other words, violence is analyzed here in terms similar to what Erich Fromm called malignant aggression – the tendency to destroy and gain unlimited control over other people and the world. In the text, the author radicalizes the question about the pedagogical context of violence, treating the tendency to hasty curricular and organizational changes (which often occur after events of escalating violence in schools), as well as the utilitarian search for effective preventive evidence-based measures, as illusions and part of the problem we face with violence. He recognizes that pedagogical reflection must go much deeper. He seeks knowledge about the sources of violence and the cultural formations that foster it in the works of the French anthropologist René Girard and the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka. The ideas of mimetic rivalry and the 20th century as war can give us insight into the phenomenon of violence and suggest the direction of educational transformation. The author conducts the analysis in several steps. After a critical introduction to the contemporary reaction of education to violence, he first outlines Girard's concept of the mimetic mechanism, then emphasizes three ideas present in it (with references to the nowadays): violence as an anthropological feature embedded in the human condition, unawareness of one's own violence and unanimity of the persecuting crowd. In the end, these three accents become the basis for the postulate of existential reorientation of education, based on Patočka's concept of forces of the day and the night. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - The Work of Benign Aggression and Negativity Within a Frommian Framework. My Clinical Journey JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 053-082. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 23 Y1 - 2023 VL - e27/2023c ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barraycoa Martínez, Javier T1 - The transformation of individualism and loneliness in times of pandemics JF - Scientia et Fides, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2023), pp. 137-195. [Online ISSN 2353-5636] [doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2023.011] N2 - The characterisation of mass society in a society without God, as a mere mimetic, hypnotic and unstable phenomenon is clearly insufficient. For its rise, so cial, psychological and relational changes had to take place, both among people and between people and their environment. Many scholars in recent times who have tried to explain the phenomenon of mass society have undoubtedly linked it to individualism, especially to one of its characteristics that could be considered specifically modern: loneliness. The study entitled >The Spiral of Silence< is well known, in which Noelle-Neumann, taking up Tocqueville’s classic thesis, highlights the tremendous negative force – as a psychosocial agent – of individual behaviour in the face of social forces. As Erich Fromm forcefully points out: >Feeling completely isolated and lonely leads to mental disintegration, just as starvation leads to death<. The phenomenon of a worldwide pandemic has forced a rethinking of the concept of isolation and loneliness, theoretically displaced by virtual and telematic forms of communication. However, mimetic effects and mass behaviours have not disappeared with isolation, but have been transmuted into new psychological, behavioural and cognitive attitudes. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fromm, Erich T1 - The Psychological Roots of War and Destruction [originated 1963] JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 27 / 2023, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 007-030. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - 13 Y1 - 2023 VL - e27/2023a ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Funk, Rainer T1 - The Human and His Potential for Development in the Economy. Lecture presented at the >Agora Leadership Talk< at Ascona on September 23, 2023. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corsa, Rita T1 - The divining rod: Pioneering explorations of the psychoanalytic field (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2214346) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 135-144. N2 - At the turn of the twentieth century, curiosity about paranormal events, in particular clairvoyance and telepathy through the state of hypnotic trance, spread widely throughout the Old World and the United States. The investigative interest in this field infected many psychoanalysts, including Freud. This paper intends to examine the pioneering articles which the creators of the psychoanalytical movement in Italy dedicated to this topic. A special place though rightly belongs to Emilio Servadio and to the founding father of Italian psychoanalysis, Edoardo Weiss. Weiss' experiences within the paranormal world are documented in a series of letters, some completely unpublished, which he exchanged with Paul Federn. The A. evaluates this correspondence, with the aim of transposing the discourse onto a theoretical level. Weiss' interpretations of his mediumistic experiences and Servadio's writings on telepathy and on paranormal dreams contains incredibly suggestive observations, which seemed to herald an expansion into the analytic field of the area of ⁣⁣exchange between analyst and patient. They sensed some axioms which would only much later be theorised within the inter-subjective psychoanalysis and the field model. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Previdi, Serena A1 - Buzzi, Anna A1 - Cozza, Mariagiovanna T1 - The digital age and psychoanalysis: New frontiers of the setting and therapeutic challenges (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2248429) JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 256-267. N2 - We reflect on the concept of the setting in psychoanalysis, and how it has been radically reconsidered given the impact of the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic on human interactions and moving from face-to-face to online sessions. The rapidity of going from seeking interaction to a fear of possible contagion led some professionals to adopt a sudden change of setting. Although the concept of setting seems to come from the classical Freudian method, Freud never spoke about it explicitly, although it was subsequently developed from his writings. Only in the 1960s and 70s was the setting perceived as the very object of psychoanalytic exploration. Since the psyche in psychoanalysis is conceived as a spatially extended entity, this paper discusses the concepts of space and time (external setting) and the mental state of both the patient and analyst (internal setting). We investigate how these aspects have changed as a result of the use of technology. What changes have taken place at the perceptual level in the patient and analyst? What differences are there with respect to the presence/absence of the other’s body? We use our own reflections of our personal experiences of undergoing face-to-face and online sessions to reveal the differences between them. Y1 - 2023 ER -