“Nor any drop to drink”: A psychodynamic approach to fluid restriction in eating disorders.
This article examines psychodynamic implications of this behavior, both as it relates to and differs from existing psychodynamic approaches to understanding other eating disorder behaviors. Specifically, I will focus both on the unique transference-countertransference pattern that arises in patients who restrict fluid and on views of the body held by these patients. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - August 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychodynamic underpinnings of the DSM–5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorder.
There has been much research in recent years on the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Although this research has by and large validated the model from a psychometric perspective, it has sometimes been criticized by psychodynamically oriented researchers and clinicians for its (lack of) clinical utility and its disregard for the rich history and tradition of psychodynamic thought that formed the foundation for personality disorder research in the first place. These criti...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - August 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attachment disorganization and severe psychopathology: A possible dialogue between attachment theory and control-mastery theory.
A good enough theory of psychological functioning and development, and of how psychotherapy works, should take into account recent scientific developments about emotional, motivational, and cognitive functioning. They show how human beings are “wired” to adapt to reality and share a set of evolutionary-based emotions, motivations and skills that are shaped by the cognitive-affective structures (schemas) developed on the basis of the emotionally relevant experiences, in particular of the first years of life. Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) represents the first real attempt in this direction, although the cl...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A commentary on Duschinsky’s interview with Peter Fonagy and Fonagy’s response.
Comments on an article by Duschinsky et al. (see record 2019-26304-001) and on response by Fonagy et al. (see record 2019-36958-001). Jurist would like to emphasize that Duschinsky’s (2019) interview artfully blends a review of well-established aspects of mentalization theory (like the varieties of nonmentalizing), along with attention to unfolding aspects (like epistemic trust and vigilance). In Fonagy et al.’s (2019) commentary, one launches into even newer ground with speculation about “the p factor,” which can predict vulnerability to psychopathology, and which could lead to move away from conventional diagnost...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Commentary on “‘Trust comes from a sense of feeling one’s self understood by another mind’: An interview with Peter Fonagy”.
Comments on an article by Duschinsky et al. (see record 2019-26304-001). Issues that had been controversial a decade ago in psychoanalytic psychotherapy are mostly no longer so. There is, for example, little discussion now about the advantages or disadvantages of a relational approach: The overwhelming evidence favoring an interpersonal frame of reference for both development and adult functioning is generally accepted. Similarly, the large number of studies showing psychodynamic psychotherapy to be efficacious in a range of diagnostic conditions has multiplied, and the defenders of a narrowly defined view of evidence-base...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The theater of the unconscious mind.
After comprehensively reviewing models of unconscious structure from Freud to Mitchell, the author explores how using analogies to theater or drama for explaining the unconscious benefits the psychoanalytic project in 2 distinct ways: They offer metaphors that transcend differences between long-conflicting theoretical models; they allow for comprehensive methods of interpretation encompassing myriad perspectives on the unconscious. These theatrical analogies invite disparate perspectives on unconscious—structure, process, dynamism, or even primitive, disorganized components—into integrative tales or stories. They add f...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of How to be a better child therapist: An integrative model for therapeutic change.
Reviews the book, How to Be a Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change by Kenneth Barish (2018). Kenneth Barish’s book How to Be a Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change is aptly named. It is hard to imagine that after reading it, child therapists, either in their early career or otherwise, would not have absorbed enough of Barish’s unique perspective and/or useful techniques to have become better child therapists. At the same time, the book goes beyond the purview of the title, providing deeply thoughtful insights into what motivates children, what they need, how...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A psychoanalytic conceptualization of human movement in the Rorschach: A case study of trauma.
Since the publication of Psychodiagnostics (Rorschach, 1921), human movement (M) responses have received special attention in Rorschach empirical, theoretical, and clinical literature, eliciting diverse interpretations and controversies. M responses are associated with the capacity for planning, imagination, flexibility, and empathy. The role of M responses is of particular interest in cases of trauma, especially ones marked by dissociative mechanisms, as elevation of M is one of the consistent findings in Rorschach protocols of traumatized individuals. The following paper offers an application of Sandor Ferenczi’s under...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Externalizing/projection; internalizing/identification: An examination.
The psychological mechanisms of externalizing and internalizing are compared with those of the defenses of projection and identification, in a sample of 91 young adults. The results indicate that externalizing and projection are positively correlated for males, but not for females. Internalizing and identification were found to be negatively related for both males and females. This unexpected finding is discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dreaming and adaptation: The perspective of control-mastery theory.
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the meaning and functions of dreams according to control-mastery theory (CMT), a cognitive-dynamic relational theory developed and empirically validated in the last 40 years by the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group (Gazzillo, 2016; Silberschatz, 2005; Weiss, 1993a; Weiss, Sampson, & the Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group, 1986). CMT stresses how dreams reflect the person’s efforts to adapt to reality; their production is regulated by a safety principle and is an expression of human unconscious higher adaptive functions. According to this model, dreams represent our unc...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Trust comes from a sense of feeling one��s self understood by another mind”: An interview with Peter Fonagy.
Peter Fonagy is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. He has occupied a number of key national leadership positions including Chair of the Outcomes Measurement Reference Group at the Department of Health, and Chair of two National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guideline Development Groups. His clinical interests center on issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder and violence, and today he will be speaking about epistemic petrification. He was interviewed at the Epistemic Petrification Conference, held on the 2nd...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Trust comes from a sense of feeling one’s self understood by another mind”: An interview with Peter Fonagy.
Peter Fonagy is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London. He has occupied a number of key national leadership positions including Chair of the Outcomes Measurement Reference Group at the Department of Health, and Chair of two National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guideline Development Groups. His clinical interests center on issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder and violence, and today he will be speaking about epistemic petrification. He was interviewed at the Epistemic Petrification Conference, held on the 2nd...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The plan formulation method for couples.
This article proposes an adaptation to couple therapy of the Plan Formulation Method, an empirically validated and clinically useful assessment procedure for planning case-specific psychotherapy interventions. According to Control-Mastery Theory (CMT), individuals who seek psychotherapy have an unconscious plan, which comprises goals, obstructions, tests, traumas, and insights. The Plan Formulation Method was developed to reliably formulate individual psychotherapy cases. To apply this method to couples therapy, we have added two components: dysfunctional relationship patterns (vicious relational circles) and resources (vi...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attachment and the Oedipus complex: Attachment orientations moderate the effects of priming oedipal representations on sexual attraction.
We report 2 preliminary studies examining attachment-related individual differences in the ways in which contextual reactivation of oedipal issues in adulthood affects men’s sexual attraction to women. In these studies, we measured male participants’ attachment orientations, subliminally primed oedipal or neutral issues, and examined the effects of the primes on sexual attraction to women appearing in ads (Study 1) and women who were purportedly interested in romantic dating (Study 2). Across the 2 studies, men who scored higher on attachment anxiety reacted to the oedipal prime (as compared to control primes) with hei...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Characteristics of trainees’ early sessions: A naturalistic process-outcome study tribute to Jeremy D. Safran.
This study of early treatment sessions tested competing hypotheses that the trainee therapists would either demonstrate therapeutic processes consistent with the program’s psychodynamic training model or evidence of the “smuggling hypothesis” (Ablon & Jones, 1998), a psychodynamic therapist’s tendency to borrow prototypical cognitive–behavioral processes and interventions found in a naturalistic sample of experienced self-identified psychodynamic clinicians (Ablon, Levy, & Katzenstein, 2006). Results using the Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (Jones, 2000) suggested that treatment-as-usual for the sample of trainees w...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - April 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
