TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - >Forum der Psychoanalyse< - A journal documenting the >normalization< of the psychoanalytic field in Germany JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 2, 2015), pp. 60-62. N2 - >Forum der Psychoanalyse<, which holds a firm place in the German-speaking world today, was founded in 1984 in a rugged landscape of psychoanalysis in Germany that was the consequence of the malignant group processes that had occurred between psychoanalytic societies after World War II. The Forum's foundation was guided by the idea of creating a constructive climate between the rivalrous groups and moderating the gap between them, given the increasing recognition of the shared history of psychoanalysis in Germany that had started to take root in the 1980s. Emphasizing the common ground in psychoanalytic theory and practice, the >Forum< is open to all psychoanalysts, to discussions of the various psychoanalytic trends, and to contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue. It promotes exchanges between psychoanalytic societies, and is also meant as a bridge to the development of psychoanalysis abroad. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - >You touched my heart<: Modes of memory and psychoanalytic technique JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 16 (No. 4, December 2007), pp. 222-227. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael A1 - Pflichthofer, Diana A1 - Kamm, Harald T1 - Children of Nazi Germany 60 years on. Panel at the International Psychoanalytical Congress, Berlin, 26 July 2007 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 4, 2009), pp. 225-236. N2 - Defence against shock, feelings of guilt, and shame about German atrocities during National Socialism (NS) have dominated the public discourse in Germany for decades. Mitscherlich and Mitscherlich have talked about the inability to mourn due to the involvement of most German families in Nazi terror. The research projects >Childhood in War< at the University of Munich and >War Children and their Flight< at the Hamburg DPG Institute are studying the long-term implications of a childhood during World War II and the Nazi period. In most cases, the personal development of the >war children< was affected – in the case of psychoanalysts, their psychoanalytic socialisation and current professional practice as well. The transgenerational transmission forms an NS introject in the personality. Due to their parents’ lack of empathy, war children are unconsciously looking for a containment of their unbearable feelings in their childhood. Psychoanalysis (including training analysis) becomes a stage where the analysee's childhood loneliness, the taboo-forming, the inhibition to ask and the protection of the parents, as well as feelings of guilt and embarrassment in the family, not talking about matters, and silence, occur once more in transference. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Dealing with >new fears<: Psychoanalysis facing global threats and terrorism JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 29 (No. 3, 2020), pp. 200-203. N2 - In the present time of increasing global stress and threats from outside reality, there arise >new fears< of destruction, of annihilation, and of loss of existence. As a consequence, psychoanalysis is faced with new challenges. It is expanding its range to face the fears that arise from these global threats. This requires special attention to analysts’ personal transference and their resistance against it to enable them to be used as a container for the fears of their patients. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Editorial T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 1 (No. 3, December 1992), pp. 123-125. Y1 - 1992 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Editorial: Identity in Change T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 4, 2004), pp. 209-210 Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Editorial: Psychoanalysis and globalisation T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 4, 2009), pp. 195. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Editorial: Psychoanalysis in Germany T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 2, October 1999), p. 57. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - How the idea of an IFPS journal came about JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 30 (No. 4, 2021), pp. 201-202. Y1 - 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Conci, Marco A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Marco Conci interviews Michael Ermann JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 1, 2018), pp. 005-013. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael A1 - Mann, Carola T1 - Michael Ermann interviews Carola Mann JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 4, 2009), pp. 250-253. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - On Medial Identity JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 4, 2004), pp. 275-283. N2 - An important change is taking place in the identity forming processes in human development, caused by the increasing medialisation of communication, through television, video and Internet. In this regard, the medial mode of communication seems to be more important than the overwhelming variety of the transmitted contents. It represents the prototype of a narcissistic relation structure by arousing needs but not answering them. The identification with this mode of communication creates what the author calls medial identity in this paper. It is described as an adaptation to noncontingent experiences. An interaction consists between the medialisation of the adult world and an estrangement in the identity forming developmental conditions in childhood, which gets more influential from generation to generation. The increasing usualness of the described phenomena indicates that a new normality is heralded here. Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - On perverse thinking. A case vignette JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 14 (No. 3-4, October 2005), pp. 188-192. Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Psychoanalysis meeting the challenges of globalisation: Commentary on Cláudio Laks Eizirik's paper JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 18 (No. 4, 2009), pp. 202-205. N2 - Identity and structure as signifiers of the unconscious are in flux as a result of the evaporation of the relations in the modern world. The author develops some hypotheses on the input of the changing identity in respect to the psychoanalytic encounter in therapy and to processes in institutions. He comes to the conclusion that the orientation to the individual dynamics, the therapy room and the therapeutic relationship, which is at present substantial for most analysts, will no longer be relevant. Whether we will be successful or not as psychoanalysts depends on whether we see the world growing together, share the responsibility for it and take up the burning questions of globalisation. Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Psychoanalytic Theory in a Creative Process between Culture and Analyst. Paper presented at the IFPS XI International Forum in New York, May 4-7, 2000. Typescript 7 p. Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Reminding JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 16 (No. 1, March 2007), pp. 53-54. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - Telling Dreams and Transference JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 8 (No. 2, October 1999), pp. 75-86. N2 - Since Freud's Dream Interpretation and his additional writings on the analysis of dreams, the technique of handling a dream report within the analytic session has remained nearly unchanged. It is characterised by dream-centred associations and their interpretation in regard to dream content and to transference. This approach constitutes an alien element within contemporary interactional psychoanalytic technique and tends to provoke resistances in the analytic dialogue. This article stresses the function of dream reporting during the session with respect to the interactional process. It is concluded that sufficient attention should be given to interactional analysis of dream reporting in accordance with the questions: Why does the patient at this point of the process tell a dream, and why does he tell this very dream instead of another? Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - The changing face of psychoanalysis and the development of the IFPS JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 23 (No. 2, 2014), pp. 69-72. N2 - The foundation of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) in 1962 was – from the author's point of view – a reaction to the exclusive politics of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) in the postwar years. It was a political act of self-assertion, and only secondarily a science-related initiative. But meanwhile, the field of international psychoanalysis has changed fundamentally, and the former identity of the IFPS, which was defined from its differences from the IPA, has come under increasing pressure. Meeting this challenge, the question arises: what is the contribution of the Federation to psychoanalysis in the contemporary world? The author believes that the future lies in the exploration of identity-creating relations in all areas and periods of life. To deal with this huge challenge would be a shared task for the whole psychoanalytic community. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - The intersubjective perspective and the change of psychoanalytic identity JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 3-4, 2012), pp. 150-153. N2 - Psychoanalytical identity is more like a process than a state, reflecting the balance between the self and the expectations of the reference group. But what is the common ground where psychoanalysts can refer to facing changes in psychoanalytic theory and practice, especially in the direction of the intersubjective paradigm? In this paper, the traditional psychoanalytic attitude of an objective interpretation of the inner world of the patient is contrasted to the position that is the result of the intersubjective conception of the psychoanalytic process. The latter assigns the role of a co-player to the analyst. This has far-reaching consequences for the concept of abstinence, which are developed in this paper against a background of a short clinical vignette. Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ermann, Michael T1 - The Training of Psychoanalysts and the Analyst's Sense of Responsibility JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 2 (No. 1, March 1993), pp. 37-43. N2 - In his closing address to the IFPS Conference on the theme >Psychoanalysis between conformity and opposition<, held in Munich in 1992, the author emphasizes the importance of the psychoanalytical training system in promoting a sense of responsibility on the part of the psychoanalyst. He bases his discussion on Winnicott's concept of the capacity for concern, and concludes that the current training system runs counter to the goal of encouraging a sense of responsibility in psychoanalysts. In this, the author confirms criticism currently being expressed in Germany whereby this situation is a consequence of the incorporation of personal development processes, including the training analysis, within the educational programme used by the training institutions. He sees the reason for the failure to implement changes in the training system as an unconscious need on the part of analysts in training for intimacy, a need which coincides with the need of the institutions involved to maintain their power. Y1 - 1993 ER -