Review of Parenting: Contemporary clinical perspectives.
Reviews the book, Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives by Steven Tuber (see record 2016-37599-000). The reviewer notes that most titles on parenting focus on the impact of parenting on the developing child, but Parenting: Contemporary Clinical Perspectives is different: It focuses on the subjective experience of parenting. The book chapters interweave the experience of parenting one’s own children with the experience of treating children and their parents, as well as the reverberations between the two domains. As might be expected of psychodynamically oriented clinicians, another layer of reverberations has to d...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Lacanian talking therapy considered closely: A qualitative study.
The present study aims at mapping and interpreting the factors that stand out as relevant to personal change in Lacanian psychoanalytic therapy from a first-person perspective. Using interview data of participants’ personal accounts of their therapeutic journey, we applied (phenomenologically inspired) thematic analysis to gain insight into what they believed effectuated change. We provide a descriptive thematic account of what patients indicated as crucial to change. Second, we interpret the data within the context of Lacan’s seminal text “The Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis,” which pro...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Therapist–client language matching: Initial promise as a measure of therapist–client relationship quality.
While research suggests that the therapeutic alliance is important in predicting outcomes of psychotherapy, relatively little is known about the development of the alliance or the moment-to-moment components of the relationship and how they combine to create an alliance, which may represent a serious limitation in existing methods of measurement. Language style matching (LSM), or the degree to which unconscious aspects of an interactional partner’s language mimic that of the other partner, is a promising, unobtrusive measure of interaction quality that could provide novel insight into the therapist–client alliance. In ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of The mother–infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment.
Reviews the book, The Mother–Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, and Frank Lachmann (see record 2016-40244-000). It is suggested that we are born “storytelling creatures” (Bruner, 2003). All our narratives, whatever they are “about,” are motor performances with serial organization through episodes of vitality (Stern, 2010). Narrative behavior, “inherent in the praxis of social interaction before it achieves linguistic expression” (Bruner, 1990), is a foundation of conversational meaning making and culture (Cobley, 2014). The Mother–Infant Picture Book is ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding the Selfobject Needs Inventory: Its relationship to narcissism, attachment, and childhood maltreatment.
This study reevaluates the factor structure of the Selfobject Needs Inventory (SONI) using a sample of 738 students at an ethnically diverse urban university. The original SONI comprises 5 factors corresponding to approach and avoidance of Kohut’s selfobject needs for mirroring, idealization, and twinship. The current factor analysis revealed 4 factors related to individuals’ needs for affiliation and self-efficacy and indicating conflict around meeting these needs. Relationships between the new SONI factors and attachment style, narcissistic traits in adulthood, and childhood maltreatment were examined for convergent ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
