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This paper distinguishes between the grammar of wishes in neurotic patients and the grammar of imperative needs in borderline patients. The treatment of a borderline psychotic boy 30 years ago was uninformed by subsequent developments in technique arising from the theory of projective identification as a communication rather than as an attack or a defense. Issues that need addressing in borderline patients, especially those who are children, include (a) developmental delay, (b) the distinction between defenses and overcomings in the paranoid position, (c) rectification fantasies of vengeance, and (d) rectification fantasies of justice and other moral imperatives.
The doctrine of defects in the self leads to a clinical focus on what is missing rather than on what is present in pathological organizatons of self-experience. Felt deficiencies in the sense of self may be understood not as manifestations of an irreducible internal defect within the person, but rather as the consequence of various organizing principles established in early transactions with caregivers. An illustration of this idea is provided by a brief description of the life and treatment of a young woman who felt that she had no self and that she did not exist.
Review Charles W. Socarides and Selma Kramer (Eds.): Work and Its Inhibitions: Psychoanalytic Essays
(1997)
Introduction
(1997)
Freud's theoretical writings on hypnosis are reviewed and reasons for his abandoning of this clinical tool are suggested. Clinical hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness which has its own felt reality and does not bypass the ego. In fact, many of the essential characteristics of hypnosis are ego functions. Functions such as focused or free-floating attention, deep absorption, enhanced memory, imagery, ego-receptivity, ego-activity, defenses, and the capacity for self-observation all remain intact in hypnosis. This view is contrasted with Freud's early uses of hypnosis which were not informed by his later psychoanalytic discoveries. Clinical material is presented which illustrates how the conversion from a psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a hypnoanalysis resolved a therapeutic impasse and allowed for a productive treatment. Fromm's view of hypnosis, as a special form of adaptive regression in the service of the ego is clinically illustrated. It is postulated that the altered state of hypnosis facilitates an increased ego mobility. It is the psychic mobility of hypnosis which facilitates the vacillation between primary and secondary process thinking; the experiencing ego and the observing ego, and conscious and unconscious experience. It is largely the ego-mobility and available memory in hypnosis that account for its advantages as compared to non-hypnotic treatment. Relational and self-psychological components of hypnosis are also proposed.
This... book will introduce you to the basic historical, philosophical, gender, and cultural assumptions of the theory and practice of psychotherapy. You will see the connections and contradictions between competing ideas and ideals that have shaped the professional identities of most contemporary psychotherapists. In 'Talking Cures,' you will also find: coverage of Western and Eastern approaches to psychotherapy, including radical feminism, existentialism, and Zen; coverage of ancient and modern practices of psychotherapy, the impact of the Enlightenment on psychotherapy, the work of 18th- and 19th-century French psychiatrists, and current data from clinical psychology (and) case studies, stories, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences to bridge the gap between what is written about psychotherapy in academic psychology and what is true in real life. – FROMM is discussed shortly in Chapter II as a member och the Ego-Psychology: Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, and Erich FROMM. (from the cover)
Historical legacies and contemporary innovation. Introduction to symposium on child analysis part I
(1997)
Using research on the purely social face-to-face exchange, we examine patterns of mother – infant interaction and their relevance for the presymbolic origins of self and object representations, focusing on the representation of inter-relatedness between self and object. Based on a dyadic systems view in which the system is defined by both self- and interactive-regulation processes, we argue that characteristic patterns of self and interactive regulation form early interaction structures, which provide an important basis for emerging self and object representations. What will be represented, presymbolically, is the dynamic interactive process itself, the interplay, as each partner influences the other from moment to moment. This is a dynamic, process view of >interactive< or >dyadic< representations. The argument that early interaction structures organize experience is based on a transformational model in which there are continuous transformations and restructurings, where development is in a constant state of active reorganization. To define the capacities on which a presymbolic representational capacity is based, we review the last decade's research on infant perception and memory, which has radically changed our concepts of representation. The interaction structures we describe illustrate the salience of arousal, affect, space, and time in the early organization of experience: (1) state transforming, the expectation that an arousal state can be transformed through the contribution of the partner (2) facial mirroring, the expectation of matching and being matched in the direction of affective change (3) disruption and repair, the expectation of degree of ease and rapidity of interactive repair following facial-visual mismatches (4) >chase and dodge,< the expectation of the misregulation and derailment of spatial-orientation patterns, without repair and (5) interpersonal timing, the expectation of degree of vocal rhythm matching.
Patients' Representations of Therapists, Parents, and Self in the Early Phase of Psychotherapy
(1997)
Psychoanalysis may be seen as caught between two different trends of disenchanted modernity: rationalization, which leads to the framing of our work as a professional discipline subordinate to the dictates of instrumental rationality, and self-analysis, which frees us from the dictates of orthodoxy, inequality, and authority. But a further difficulty lies within the aspect of enlightenment, which has not only provided a greater role for our subjectivity but disguised relations of authority, conformity, and objectiflcation in our work. Psychoanalysis has objectified the other while idealizing its knowledge as objective, has paradoxically denied the very subjectivity that must serve as the source of the analyst's knowledge. However, the reaction against this condition, which may tend to produce counter-ideals of not-knowing and mutuality, must also be carefully deconstructed. Differences in the meaning given by different schools to the use of the analyst's subjectivity suggest that pluralism will make new knowledge demands on psychoanalysts. Analytic training should include the development of critical abilities that help to meet these demands within a context of education as a collaborative, democratic process. Knowledge itself can be used homeo-pathically as an antidote to the old ideal of the knowing authority.
Interview Sue van Zyl
(1997)
The history of the stormy love affair between psychoanalysts and literature is explored, with an emphasis on their basic affinity and on the animosity created by analysts’ reductionistic tendencies. Past studies of the dynamics of Robert Frost's emotional world and poetry are reviewed in this context. Ogden's sensitive reading of Frost's poems is portrayed as an example of the potentially mutual egalitarian encounter allowed by newer trends in psychoanalytic theory.
Interminable Analysis?
(1997)
Review Susan Lazar (Ed.): Extended Dynamic Psychotherapy: Making the Case in an Era of Managed Care
(1997)
In the Yellow Room
(1997)
Betrayal.
(1997)
Review >Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Science: Collected Papers of Benjamin B. Rubenstein<
(1997)
Work in Progress
(1997)
Eulogy for Rose Spiegel.
(1997)
Controtransfert e angoscia
(1997)
What We Take for Granted
(1997)
Introduction
(1997)
Love as an Art (Erich Fromm)
(1997)
A bug-free universe.
(1997)
Wir alle sind Glaubende
(1997)
Aufschwung
(1997)
Although the technique of countertransference-disclosure has received increasing attention, interest in the role of the analyst's inadvertent self-revelations has remained quite limited. Yet the analyst's inadvertent self-revelations are at the heart of the distinction between monadic and two-person views of the psychoanalytic situation. This paper extends the logical implications of a two-person perspective on the psychoanalytic situation. Because the analyst's inadvertent self-revelations are inevitable and continuous, they significantly shape the patient's experience of the relationship. The analytic process at times can be enhanced, therefore, by collaborative efforts to make explicit the inadvertent expressions of the analyst. Aspects of the analyst's individuality thereby become clarified, rather than obscured as in classical views. Dealing with the analyst's inadvertent self-revelations in an active, collaborative manner that is tempered by asymmetry elucidates the integration of interpersonal with intrapsychic aspects of transference and heightens the immediacy and directness of the analytic interaction. This approach also embraces the significance of the analyst's personal participation, authenticity, and interaction, which though crucial in two-person models, have been obscured by concerns with maintaining neutrality, anonymity, and abstinence, which epitomize the analyst's stance from the one-person perspective.
Illusion, faith, and knowledge. Commentary on Sorenson's >ongoing change in psychoanalytic theory<
(1997)