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Social Justice Activism as Interpretation in a Loewaldian World
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1149-1173. doi: 10.1177/00030651231224336.ABSTRACTAt a time when many questions are arising about the nexus between psychoanalysis and social justice, the writings of Hans Loewald open an avenue for broadened conceptualizations of psychoanalytic activity and the role of interpretation within it. The pursuit of social justice, it is argued, is integral to psychoanalytic ethics, and the relation between activists and society can be formulated in Loewaldian terms. Using Loewald, and considering case examples from social justice informed advocacy, direct action, and protest speech in AIDS ...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jyoti M Rao Source Type: research

What is Meant by the Term Interpretation, and What is it For?
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1211-1238. doi: 10.1177/00030651241231965.ABSTRACTAnalysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation, a word so idealized and grand, so laden with fantasy, that the term itself continues to hold a magical sense that defies us to think about it. Called upon to do far too much explanatory work in psychoanalysis, it is accorded a variety of meanings. It is employed for varied uses, often simultaneously, making it hard to know what analysts mean when referring to "interpretation" and what uses they intend for it. Approaches to interpretation may be heuristically ...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bruce Reis Source Type: research

Barbenheimer Goes to the Gynecologist
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1277-1281. doi: 10.1177/00030651241233725.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511892 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241233725 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeri Isaacson Source Type: research

Interpretation as Hypothesis
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1063-1084. doi: 10.1177/00030651241234309.ABSTRACTTwo distinct spaces can be seen as operating in a session-a private one in the analyst's mind, where formulations take shape, and one shared between patient and analyst, in which interpretations are offered. By maintaining a focus on the here and now in the latter space, taking care to protect it from intrusions from the analyst's theory except as hypotheses (in the form of interpretations derived from those formulations) aimed at eliciting unconscious responses that further the analytic inquiry, a basis for analytic work is established...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: M Fakhry Davids Source Type: research

Interpretation: Voice of the Field
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1127-1148. doi: 10.1177/00030651241232703.ABSTRACTTo patients, the most memorable moments in psychoanalytic treatment are seldom the contents of the analyst's interpretations, but the feeling of being understood. Interpretations are most meaningful not because of what they say but because each one is evidence that the analyst, who generally becomes someone of great significance to the patient, knows the patient more than before the interpretation was made. As a result of this process of "witnessing" patients not only know and feel-they also "know and feel that they know and feel." They...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Donnel B Stern Source Type: research

Interpretation: Time, Timing, Loss, and Recovery in the Analytic Hour
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1085-1105. doi: 10.1177/00030651241233727.ABSTRACTInterpretation remains relevant in contemporary psychoanalysis and serves a crucial linking function between patient and analyst. Interpretation provides an important link with temporalities: the time of the analytic hour and the time of the patient's history as it unfolds in the present. Analysis, it is argued, is bounded by time and loss. Two case vignettes, presented from a Kleinian perspective, exemplify these propositions.PMID:38511895 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241233727 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Zeavin Source Type: research

The Reflexive Function of Psychoanalytic Interpretation
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1107-1126. doi: 10.1177/00030651241235851.ABSTRACTThe act of interpretation in psychoanalysis has a distinct character due to the discursive structure of the psychoanalytic setting. The discourse that issues from the interplay of the fundamental rule and evenly suspended attention is a reflection on reflection. The result is that interpretation instead of being a device for inquiry is itself the object of inquiry. Psychoanalysis does not use interpretation. It is about interpretation itself. This perspective sheds a certain light on longstanding questions about the form and effects of ...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David Lichtenstein Source Type: research

From the Editors
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1241-1244. doi: 10.1177/00030651241236764.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511898 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241236764 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Adelman Jennifer Stuart Rachel Bou é Widawsky Source Type: research

Interpreting Interpretation
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1175-1210. doi: 10.1177/00030651241238325.ABSTRACTInterpretation of the latent meaning of manifest content is the core of the traditional approach to psychoanalytic treatment. The main purpose of such interpretation is to enhance the patient's self-knowledge, in particular his or her awareness of unconscious wishes and their embeddedness in inner conflicts. An assumption of classical psychoanalysis is that veridical interpretations-as Freud put it, interpretations that tally with what is real in the patient-will be especially effective therapeutically. These basic assumptions have been...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Morris N Eagle Source Type: research

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J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1263-1268. doi: 10.1177/00030651241233499.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511900 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241233499 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosemary H Balsam Source Type: research

My Partners in Conversation
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1301-1304. doi: 10.1177/00030651241237406.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511901 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241237406 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mitchell Wilson Source Type: research

Introduction: W(h)ither Interpretation?
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1057-1062. doi: 10.1177/00030651241238329.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511902 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241238329 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mitchell Wilson Source Type: research

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J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2023 Dec;71(6):1245-1262. doi: 10.1177/00030651241237397.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38511903 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241237397 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barbara F Marcus Source Type: research