TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis among Early Sociologists: A Socio-Psychoanalytic Interpretation JF - L. Chancer and J. Andrews (Eds.), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial (Studies in the Psychosocial, ed. by Peter Redman), New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, pp. 53-76. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - Erich Fromm and The Making and Unmaking of the Socio-cultural JF - The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 389-414. N2 - This paper addresses issues of continuity and discontinuity regarding the role of the socio-cultural in psychoanalysis. Starting with Freud and Fromm’s ideas on social change, the author discussed a dynamics whereby psychoanalytic culture gradually encouraged a process of delinking the psyche from the social. This disengagement from the socio-cultural has encouraged dissociative mechanisms and social narcissism. Using a case study the author shows the importance of recapturing formulations that stress an analytic >Social Third.< Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. A1 - McLaughlin, Neil T1 - Introduction to the Special Issue on Erich Fromm's Legacy JF - The Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. 102 (No. 4, August 2017), pp. 384-388- Y1 - 2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine B. T1 - Fromm’s Socio-Psychoanalytic Conceptualization of the Clinical Encounter in Relation to the Social Third JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 24 / 2020, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 115-134. N2 - Abstract: In this paper, I discuss Fromm’s theories of individual and social change within the therapeutic context. I don’t know of any psychoanalyst who was able to integrate so-ciological thinking with clinical practice and conceptualization the way Fromm did in the early part of the century. On the surface, these two approaches seem incompatible – at least in their methodologies – yet they complemented each other, as Erich Fromm (1929a; 1944a) and Rainer Funk (2018) have demonstrated so clearly. My presentation today is an exercise in microanalysis rather than a broad theoretical discussion about psychic and social change. I want to show how Fromm’s theoretical framework and clinical experience have shaped my own work. First, I explore Fromm’s originality and discuss ways in which he has been personally marginalized and intellectually isolated as a pseudo-psychoanalyst. Then, I examine the overlap of psychoanalytic approaches as they related to the concept of social Third. Finally, I present fragments of a case to show how Fromm’s theoretical and clinical ideas have influenced my own work. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e24/2020e Y1 - 2020 VL - e24/2020e ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine T1 - Rethinking Erich Fromm's Analysis of Power Relations in Socio-Psychological Research and Through the Social Third in the Clinical Encounter JF - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 23 / 2019 (Special Edition), Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 230-243. N2 - This paper explores Fromm’s dialectic analysis of power relations as it applies to the dynamics of change at the societal and personal levels. First, the paper discusses the use of empirical research—system justification theory—to test the impact of socio-psychological and structural resistances to change. Second, it looks at the concept of The Social Third to illustrate Fromm’s clinical approach around connectedness, subjectivity, narcissism, internalization of normative structures and the centrality of the concept of social character in shaping the dynamics of change. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e23/2019t Y1 - 2019 VL - e23/2019t ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cavaletto, George A1 - Silver, Catherine T1 - Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis JF - L. Chancer and J. Andrews (Eds.), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial (Studies in the Psychosocial, ed. by Peter Redman), New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2014, pp. 17-52. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Silver, Catherine G. T1 - The functions of negativity and benign aggression in the development of humanistic values: A Frommian clinical journey - https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2301008 JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 3, 2024), pp. 100-110. N2 - In this paper I present an analysis of a personal journey, based on Erich Fromm's concept of benign aggression, part of The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973). I analyze its role in the dynamics of change based on the interaction between the psyche and the social. In Fromm's conceptual framework, benign aggression results from an unlived life, shaped by limitations on individuals' freedoms, supported by institutional and oppressive structures in a neo-capitalistic society. I explore how benign aggression, replayed between patient and therapist, can bring about changes in the self and modes of relatedness, leading to the recognition of humanistic values. In my practice, projective identification and attachment -detachment dynamics were experienced as forms of benign aggression, while anger and conflict became a way to acknowledge them. Fragments of two clinical cases illustrate how needs for relatedness-through-conflict are experienced. Relatedness expressed through a negative form of attachment can lead to the co-creation of a psychic space, a >Social Third< where ethical values are experienced and shared. This Frommian conceptual framework and methodology require total connectedness with a subject, together with the recognition and acceptance of an >Other< unto oneself. In my experience, such recognition encourages the emergence of humanistic values. Y1 - 2024 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 -