Refine
Language
Document Type
- Articles (308)
- Books (25)
- Reviews (17)
- Dissertations (16)
- Forewords (12)
- Interviews (7)
- Collections (1)
- Event Reports (1)
- Necrologues (1)
Year of publication
- 2005 (388) (remove)
Nadzieja
(2005)
Balwochwalczy kult wladzy
(2005)
The Nature of Dreams
(2005)
Společný >náboženský< úkol
(2005)
Credo
(2005)
Troche osobistych wspomnien
(2005)
Bedziesz jak Bóg
(2005)
Charakter
(2005)
Józef Stalin
(2005)
Traumatic social violence provokes adaptive transubjective phenomena of banalization, familiarity and obviousness, which can be understood as a 'defence through ambiguity' that leads to an 'adaptation to whatsoever'. In a state of ambiguity there is numbing of critical thinking and of the alarm mechanisms. During the psychoanalytic process with survivors of social violence (torture, etc.) we can find a secret refusal of the external alienating situation in the intrapsychic representation of an 'object to be saved', an object of concern. In this paper, Ferenczi's concept of 'identification with the aggressor' (introjection of the culpability of the abuser on the child's subjectivity) is compared with this clinical experience. We try to understand and challenge through comprehension and insight the subjective consequences of traumatic social violence, in the three spaces of subjectivity (intra-, inter-, trans-) considering psychic dynamics in relation to reality contexts.
This paper proposes that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be a helpful form of treatment for certain autistic children. Some of the misconceptions surrounding this kind of treatment are discussed. The literature identifying a particular sub-group of autistic children is then reviewed and the characteristics of this group, and the relationship of their difficulties to early trauma, are described. Using clinical material from work with a child who probably fell within this sub-group, and who had very marked autistic features, the paper illustrates the importance of the therapist taking an active role in the therapy and how this helped the child to emerge from his withdrawn state. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of introducing themes of aggression, and of this being done in a playful way. The impact of trauma on children's development, with particular reference to the acquisition of language, is considered. The role of sibling rivalry as a factor is emphasised.
This paper suggests that the interplay between transference and countertransference is considered to be a valuable channel of communication. The author puts an emphasis on the containing function of the analyst. The patient strives for an experience of an object (analyst) that tolerates and copes with the patient's projections. There are some moments when analysts feel themselves to be invaded, controlled or abused by their patient's products. As Bion has postulated, this situation takes the form of a sojourn in the analyst's psyche. Clinical vignettes are given to provide support for the ways in which the analyst contains and elaborates the projections of the patients in his or her own mind and the therapeutic role that these processes have.
The existence of man is distinguished by its split state: man stands in the middle of life yet still has an awareness of his own death. He has to compensate whatever is missing in him naturally at the societal level, created as culture, and at the individual level through creativity. Rank investigated the human 'creative drive', the anthropological aspiration to express oneself in creative works, and to overcome the fear of death with its help. Freud admired poets and artists, whose achievements he could not psychoanalytically access, but he considered science superior to the harmless and na ve arts. There are two anthropological radicals: premature birth and the consciousness of death. Freud's massive fear of death made it difficult for him to acknowledge the problem of death appropriately. In Rank's concept, the development of human creativity contributes towards the fear of death being alleviated so that the knowledge of death can be integrated into life; creativity belongs to the fundamental opportunities of man that may enable him to find a way through neurosis. Failure is as much a part of life as is creativity: those who do not experience and accept life in its tragic dimension are denied creativity. Only a creative person who accepts his partial failure finds the strength to continue to be creative without his imperfect work leading to the ritual repetition of the same thing again and again, that is, getting stuck in recidivism.
Vorwort
(2005)
Tausend verschiedene Dinge
(2005)
Commentary: Gene-Environment Interplay in the Contept of Genetics, Epigenetics, and Gene Eppression
(2005)
Attaccamento e sessualità
(2005)
>异化<是弗洛姆用来分析和描绘当代人的社会性格的一个中心概念,他正是用异化概念来分析和批判资本主义的不健全,探讨人的解放、人的自由和人的全面发展的。>异化<一词的含意从古代到现代,发生了巨大的变化。弗洛姆认为,异化是一种认识的模式,在这种模式中人把自己看作一个陌生人。弗洛姆的理论渊源来自弗洛伊德和马克思,特别是他的异化理论是继承和发展马克思的异化理论而来的,但他对现代资本主义社会的异化作了新的描述和解释。他认为,现代资本主义社会的生产过程、消费过程、政治生活和社会关系各个方面都被异化了,其根源在于人存在的两歧性和现代资本主义社会,在于资本主义。他认为,要消除异化,必须进行心理革命,必须对社会进行整体改革。弗洛姆的异化理论发展了心理学的理论和实践,拓展了哲学研究的方法,丰富了人本质理论的内涵,高扬了人道主义旗帜,体现了强烈的批判现实主义精神,给我们以借鉴和启示,但也存在着内在的逻辑矛盾,其社会改革具有乌托邦性质。
本文主要从存在主义和精神分析性格学的角度来分析约翰•福尔斯的两个对立的文学典型:一个是极端病态的、不易觉察的恋死性格典型克莱格,另一个是高度健康的恋生人格、潜在的存在主义者米兰达。我们的研究方法基本循着弗洛姆的人本主义心理分析方法、霍妮的社会文化理论和存在主义等等侧重于人的社会性的心理分析方法来分析文学人物的性格结构。这是一种跨学科的尝试,而且恋死癖与恋生的性格结构还非常新颖,目前国内无人涉猎。存在主义精神心理分析学派认为人内在有一种天生的成长因子,爱生倾向是人生的第一潜能,但是当环境极度恶劣,爱生不得之时,人就会发展恋死潜能,表现出破坏性。恶性的破坏性表现为恶性自恋,虐待-受虐情结,恶性窖藏性格和恋死性格。爱生性格则表现为独立、自由、自发关怀与爱他人的能力。前者是人类的向阻碍生命方向的恶性回归,后者是人类向促进生命方向的艰难发展。无论是爱生还是恋死,都是根植于人类的性格结构之中。人类的性格结构是人的第二本能,是人生意义的来源。人类存在需要表现为需要献身目标,与他人的关联性,团结与有根感,超越的需要和定向框架的需要。克莱格的人生定向基本是恶性回归和破坏性的不断加深,而米兰达的人生定向则是爱生和对此时此地此在的存在的关注和敞开。弗洛姆的专著《关于人类破坏性的剖析》、《人心》和《逃避自由》可以帮助我们理解某些相当怪异的人格和费解的文本,男主人公克莱格的日记就是一个典型的实例。当我们试图从弗洛伊德的性本能论和无意识理论去理解他的怪异和变态时几乎一无所获,难以取得新的理解,但用弗洛姆的理论一分析,一切疑难简直迎刃而解。而且,令人惊诧的是,弗洛姆的许多心理分析的描述和福尔斯的文本的具体化表现差不多一模一样,令人特别惊诧于心理分析与文学的暗合。在第一章里,我们论述了我们上述的人本主义理论框架,提出了本文的主要观点,介绍了小说的大致梗概和前人对《收藏家》的评论。
Within post-Kantian, liberal accounts of law, freedom emerges as the law that is moral. Opposed to the relative and restricted necessity of positive law, freedom is understood as a law that is individual and autonomously given. The space of such self-determination is protected, usually negatively, by positive law. Freedom and necessity, morality and law, autonomy and heteronomy: these summarise the oppositions within which much modern thinking has moved and moves to this day.
It seems it would be helpful for all impasses to be >recollected in tranquility.< In the thick of impasses, however, when we are experiencing pressure, defensiveness, vulnerability, and the responsibility to come up with a quick solution, it can be nearly impossible to think clearly. Time may take us to a place of greater calm and fresh awareness. But it may also provide an illusory calm, leaving us stuck circling in old familiar grooves, grooves rimmed by our own unconscious vulnerabilities and limitations. At such times, we may operate in a perceived state of calm, but with a set of powerful, yet ineffective, unseen or outgrown, concretized beliefs and perceptions, creating a perception of calmness. Some of these may even silence or damage the cooperative or struggling patient, who remains or dares to return (out of a longing to connect or make things >right<). I wondered whether what Dr. Pizer's patient said at the end of Rebecca's second therapy with him was true (that she no longer needed a hug from him, finding it more mature to proceed without one), or if this was merely what she felt she should say in order to leave a key relationship she valued – also in peace and tranquillity.
The central thesis of this paper is that grand theories of development are alive and well and should be paramount to those interested in behavioral intervention. Why? Because how we think about development affects how we approach treatment. Here I discuss the central concepts of a new theory of development – dynamic systems theory – to highlight the way in which a theory can dramatically alter views of what intervention is all about. Rather than focusing on one root of maladaptive behavior such as biological predispositions, environmental causes, or motivational states, dynamic systems theory presents a flexible, time-dependent, and emergent view of behavioral change. I illustrate this new view with a case study on how infants develop the motivation to reach for objects. This example highlights the complex day-by-day and week-by-week emergence of new skills. Although such complexity presents daunting challenges for intervention, it also offers hope by emphasizing that there are multiple pathways toward change.
This author posits that, perhaps because of its religious implications, psychoanalysis has historically avoided speaking of forgiveness, although playwrights have often depicted forgiveness as a psychological mechanism that can help resolve cycles of anger and revenge. The Laramie Project (Kaufman et al., 2001), a play about how a U.S. town deals with a murder and its aftermath, provides an example of the way in which forgiveness offers an exit from vengeance. The play points to both the positive and the negative roles that religious ideas play in human actions. At the same time, however, the play itself avoids some of the painful processes that enable human beings to locate forgiveness. This paper draws on psychoanalytic literature, social commentary, and plays by Aeschylus and Shakespeare to demonstrate how the mechanisms of forgiveness operate. In conclusion, it suggests that although enabling the psychological processes of forgiveness can be extremely difficult, ignoring these processes may be life-threatening.
In their commentaries, Sandage and Frommer each describe ways in which forgiveness may be intrinsic to the therapeutic process. But their papers also point to one of the great difficulties of promoting forgiveness as the goal in either theater or therapy, which is that the need to control the healing process can actually impede that process. This reply examines how that need may have undermined the writing of The Laramie Project, and it suggests that, in order to help audiences and clients find true forgiveness, playwrights and analysts may need to relinquish their own righteousness.
Psychoanalytic Bias Against the Elderly Patient: Hiding Our Fears Under Developmental Millstone's.
(2005)
The author presents an intense exploration of damage, disappearance, masochism, surrender, control, and faith in a single case. The patient experiences her damaged and disappearing self beyond anything anyone can relate to. She connects to a paper by Emmanuel Ghent that seems to address those more intact than she, yet feels tantalizingly close to his concerns. Ghent's paper refers to her therapist, and through it she peeps into her therapist's soul and the hell of wondering if damage she knows can be shared.
Davies contributes to the development of relational theory by formulating and illustrating what occurs during especially difficult moments in an analytic exchange. In understanding enactments, Davies importantly underscores the contribution of both the analyst's and patient's >bad objects.< This author attempts to build bridges between Davies' language and concepts anchored in object relations theory and this author's language and concepts based in contemporary or relational self psychology, including the integration of cognitive psychology. In addition, this author delineates the use of the >empathic,< >othercentered,< and >analyst's self< listening/experiencing perspectives to explicate the case material and to provide alternative understandings and pathways for psychoanalytic work. The thesis set forth is that the use of different listening/experiencing perspectives expands choice for the analyst when working in difficult moments of the clinical exchange.
Steven H. Knoblauch has been developing a strategy and theoretical perspective for using and understanding complex nonverbal experiences and communications that occur in the analytic exchange. His delineation of nonverbal communication contributes substantially to the ongoing expansion of our views of psychoanalytic interaction and theories of therapeutic action. This expansion, contributed to by many, involves the development of an interactive systems model in which verbal and nonverbal communications are viewed as actions occurring at explicit and implicit levels. In a number of Knoblauch's clinical illustrations, subsymbolic processes rapidly invoke, or are invoked by, nonverbal or imagistic symbolic processing and meaning-making as well, often followed by verbal symbolizing processing. Subsymbolic and verbal and imagistic symbolic processing, intrinsic modes of organizing data, probably continually influence one another bidirectionally in a flowing feedback loop.
Book Review : Roger Frie, editor, > Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism.<
(2005)
The paper by Barbara Pizer is discussed in terms of the analyst's use of the self. An important element in the use of the self in the psychoanalytic situation is the analyst's deeply personal, unique guiding spirit or muse. Poetry acts as a muse for Pizer. In this context, the historical romance between poetry and psychoanalysis is discussed. A successful poem can strike an immediate resonance with the known but inchoate and unarticulated experiences of the reader or listener. Like a dream, a poem can stimulate inquiry without footnotes, citations, or metapsychology. But unlike what Freud believed, poets do not have easy access to psychological insights. Pizer uses poetry in the consulting room to >construct, deconstruct, and then construct again.< Her refusal to make such use a technique or method is supported with two illustrations from Orfano's own clinical work.
I argue that on both the small-scale level of the interpersonal relationship, and the large-scale level of society, the manic defense makes it difficult to care about others, and so militates against a sense of social responsibility. I address four basic questions: what is the nature of social responsibility? What is the nature of the manic defense? How does the manic defense interfere with the potential for social responsibility? And, on a more general level, what are the issues with respect to methodology for efforts such as this one to link psychoanalysis and social theory?
In this commentary on Arnold Rothstein's >Compromise Formation Theory: An Intersubjective Dimension,< I address some of the limitations of compromise formation theory in addressing issues of intersubjectivity. Namely, compromise formation theory does not address intersubjectivity as a principal motivation it takes up mutual regulation but not mutual recognition or other aspects of intersubjectivity it does not place the intersubjective matrix at the center of clinical psychoanalytic understanding and it does not sufficiently examine clinical concerns regarding the patient's conflicts regarding intersubjective contact with the analyst. I then discuss Rothstein's clinical vignette in an effort to provide an alternative understanding of the therapeutic action of Rothstein's clinical interventions. Drawing on the work of the late Lloyd Silverman, I present an intersubjective explanation that highlights the analyst's compassionate understanding of the patient's conflicts and acceptance of the pleasure in the patient's impulses, achieved through the analyst's own personal and subjective struggles.
In this memorial essay, the professional life and work of Emmanuel Ghent are discussed and assessed. His work in establishing the relational track, his multidisciplinary interests, some influences on his life and thought, the impact of Eastern philosophy and its system of practice and thought are briefly reviewed. Emmanuel Ghent's writings – his seminal papers on masochism, on relational perspectives, on paradox, and on motivation are discussed. Ghent's commitment to change, to uncertainty, and to supporting the generativity of students, analysands, and colleagues is noted.