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J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 13:30651241252934. doi: 10.1177/00030651241252934. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38738592 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241252934 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gregory S Rizzolo Source Type: research

"And Bomb or no Bomb, We, We Will Get to Rome": In The Margins of Two Sessions with Lulu
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 13:30651241248186. doi: 10.1177/00030651241248186. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38738595 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241248186 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese Source Type: research

Discussion of Matthew Shaw's "Lulu"
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 13:30651241248184. doi: 10.1177/00030651241248184. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38738601 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241248184 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Goldberg Source Type: research

Narrative Capacity
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 13:30651231223968. doi: 10.1177/00030651231223968. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhat develops in adulthood? More specifically, what develops in adult analysis, not just in terms of thwarted childhood capacities, not just through accrued experience, but even more fundamentally in terms of abilities or structures not possible until the present moment? In this paper, I posit narrative capacity-the capacity to organize conflictual aspects of self and other in a temporary causal-motivational sequence-as a core feature of what develops in the clinical encounter between the analyst and adult patie...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gregory Scott Rizzolo Source Type: research

Property, Materiality, Proximity: The Analytic Frame and In-Person Work
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241247217. doi: 10.1177/00030651241247217. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn-person meeting offers psychologically usable material-signifiers that serve as day's residue-that cannot be duplicated or substituted for in remote ways of working. Questions of materiality, the history and specificity of location, and bodily proximity all are key aspects of the psychoanalytic frame, as Bleger's classic formulations attest. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the choreography of engagement between analyst and patient: the ghostly dust in the frame enters the room. As Bleger says, with ghosts so...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mitchell Wilson Source Type: research

The Risk of the Revelatory State
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241246507. doi: 10.1177/00030651241246507. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPatients enter states that in their spontaneity and deep interiority have qualities of the revelatory. I propose we recognize such a state as a clinical event: The person is in a state of intense internal receiving of self. We might think of it as a state of internal communication happening as the person speaks. The person feels real to herself. Her relation to her mind in this revelatory moment is easily intruded on-even by ventures of play. When the state is gone, it is gone. I single out this clinical moment ...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lucinda Ballantyne Source Type: research

Receptivity to the Weight and Heft of the Natural World in our Inner Selves
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241247222. doi: 10.1177/00030651241247222. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThrough the literary explorations and poetry of Alice Oswald, and through analysis of detailed clinical material from a Kleinian perspective, the authors expand the bounds of reverie as it is usually construed in psychoanalytic consulting rooms. The authors draw attention to the presence of a relationship to the more-than-human world as an integral aspect of our internal experience, and to the value of consideration of the quality and dynamic meaning of connections to the natural world in ordinary analytic work....
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lindsay L Clarkson Shelley Rockwell Source Type: research

BOMBA: Adolescence, Analysis, and Moments of Resonance
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241246564. doi: 10.1177/00030651241246564. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38733274 | DOI:10.1177/00030651241246564 (Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew F Shaw Source Type: research

The Operators Model of Psychoanalytic Clinical Reasoning
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241247211. doi: 10.1177/00030651241247211. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this paper, the authors develop a model of psychoanalytic clinical reasoning as the inferential process by which analytic therapists are able to arrive at an understanding of the clinical material. Starting from Bion's theory of functions, the authors propose that a "function" can be thought of as a condition-action sequence that analytic therapists implicitly use to respond to certain configurations of elements in the material by executing conceptual or reflective operations. To investigate the main families...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Niccol ò Fiorentino Polipo Jochem Willemsen Delphine Kallai Source Type: research

The Oedipal Virtual Citadel: Varieties of Isolation, Oedipal Conflict, and Cover-Up
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2024 May 11:30651241247260. doi: 10.1177/00030651241247260. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe author elaborates some of the fantasies and defenses that protect some patients in their oedipal fixations, particularly those related to forms of personal isolation. To some extent, cover-up is intrinsic to oedipal conflict and fantasy, but what is covered up is quite variable. In this paper, the author highlights elements of personal isolation that the patient cultivates in order to protect love for a desired oedipal parent and the conscious and unconscious fantasies associated with this love. The patients...
Source: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association - May 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven H Cooper Source Type: research