Finding opportunity in the crisis: Executive functioning coaching during the pandemic.
This article describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relationships and work between executive functioning coaches and their clients. It especially looks at the shared experience of the crisis in those relationships, and how this affected the interactions between them. How the frame, boundaries, and personal disclosures were altered is highlighted. Three case reports show the very varied ways in which the shared crisis affected the work and the two individuals engaged in it. The overall strengthening of the dyads is a surprising and positive effect of the global crisis in these relationships. (PsycInfo Database...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The real, the virtual, and the pandemic.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 199-206; doi:10.1037/pap0000450An urgent mental health crisis has arisen as the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its third year in the United States. How do we understand children’s reactions to these developmental disruptions? A group of child analytic clinicians, working with children and families online throughout the pandemic, have observed long-range consequences on development that range from traumatic disruptions to growth opportunities. Three clinical vignettes illustrate the varying impact of the move to online school and therapy on children’s self-development. W...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic in a latency child.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 182-189; doi:10.1037/pap0000453Article presents the online analytic treatment of Alfred, a 6½-year-old African American boy in whom the outbreak and first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a devastating posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic ongoing cumulative trauma. In contrast to concrete attacking life-threatening external objects in the case of collapsing buildings, car accidents, or rape, COVID-19 was represented by this sensitive and imaginative child as a gradually more amorphous and invisible monster that quarantined his mother away from him for 2 months, k...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The monster outside the door: A developmental-psychoanalytic exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of children and adolescents.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 172-181; doi:10.1037/pap0000469The potential and current impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socioemotional functioning of children, adolescents, and their families are explored through research evidence and a developmental-psychoanalytic perspective. We depart from the pioneering efforts and lessons learned from Anna Freud’s Hampstead War Nurseries about the value of clinical observation and its impact on technical modifications during moments of crisis. Furthermore, we illustrate and reflect on the benefits of the application of a mentalization-based lens during online...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Falling out of the world.
This article is a personal account of how the coronavirus pandemic triggered the mobilization of childhood defenses first employed when I fell victim to the polio epidemic. The article describes commonalities between the experience of polio and my own and others’ reactions to the pandemic—the collapse of time, the lapse into numbness and passivity, the management of mortal fear through denial and dissociation, and the reentry into a changed world. When a terrible illness threatens one’s body, there is a crack in the fantasy of omnipotence, of physical resilience, of a promising future. The article’s title went thro...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A snapshot of development and treatment during the time of COVID-19.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 147-148; doi:10.1037/pap0000456This is an introduction to the special issue “A Snapshot of Development and Treatment During the Time of COVID.” This issue offers a kaleidoscope of snapshots that speak to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family life. The authors are mental health professionals whose work involves ongoing contact with children, adolescents, and/or their parents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of the Trauma of racism: Lessons from the therapeutic encounter.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 370-372; doi:10.1037/pap0000476Reviews the book, The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter by Beverly J. Stoute and Michael Slevin (see record 2023-29437-000). The 22 essays gathered in the edited book by Beverly Stoute and Michael Slevin feature mostly Black and White authors who share lessons drawn from their clinical, theoretical, and personal experiences with anti-Black racism and racial trauma, in personal life, consulting room, community, and from film. These essays stand out, among a plethora of contemporary works that address racism and racial traum...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of The analyst’s reveries: Explorations in Bion’s enigmatic concept; Dear candidate: Analysts from around the world offer personal reflections on psychoanalytic training, education, and the profession; and A fresh look at psychoanalytic technique: Selected papers on psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 367-369; doi:10.1037/pap0000471Reviews the books, The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept by Busch Fred (see record 2019-13679-000); Dear Candidate: Analysts from Around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession by Busch Fred (see record 2020-95859-000); and A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis by Fred Busch (see record 2021-80653-000). In three recent books, the American psychoanalyst Fred Busch puts forth a clear, rigorous, open-minded vision of contemporary ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - July 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Growing through the erotic transference: An analysand’s journey.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 364-366; doi:10.1037/pap0000472Reviews the book, Growing through the Erotic Transference: An Analysand's Journey by Frances H. Moore (see record 2023-34530-000). This book has two parts totaling an economical 80 pages, “Part One: The Story” and “Part Two: Reflections.” The first is based on notes kept by Moore throughout the course of the treatment so that the narrative voice and critical perspective evolve with the progression of the analysis. Part Two provides a retroactive assessment of the treatment’s highlighted leitmotifs, as well as prescriptive elements main...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
New century landscape of psychoanalysis: A visual analysis based on CiteSpace.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 296-308; doi:10.1037/pap0000466The literature published in selected psychoanalytic journals from 2001 to 2020 was obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection and analyzed using the CiteSpace visualization tool. The results showed that the number of articles published annually by psychoanalytic journals tended to be stable over the past 20 years; North America was the largest center of work in psychoanalysis, with Europe ranked second; many psychoanalytic authors worked in settings outside universities; the most active authors in this 20-year period were Fonagy, Kernberg,...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychoanalysts’ work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: An empirical study on teleanalysis during the Italian lockdown.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(4), Oct 2023, 288-295; doi:10.1037/pap0000468The COVID-19 pandemic has brought several limitations in everyday life, which have, in turn, influenced psychoanalysts’ work with their patients. In Italy, in March 2020, a national lockdown was applied to the population, and this has led many psychoanalysts to work remotely with their patients. The aims of this study were to analyze psychoanalysts’ (N = 100) interventions’ style before and during the COVID-19 lockdown and to evaluate the impact of analysts’ feelings on their interventions style. Measures included the Comparative Psychot...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - June 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 229-231; doi:10.1037/pap0000467Reviews the book, Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy by Diana Diamond et al. (see record 2021-84987-000). This book is divided into three parts. The first conceptualizes pathological narcissism, the second spells out the dimensions of transference-focused psychotherapy with narcissistic patients, while the final section delves into pathological narcissism in intimate relations and society. This is a book that should be studied by all clinicians as we are all dealing with narcissistic patients, and those with...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Computerized linguistic analysis of counselors’ clinical notes in a university counseling center: Which associations correspond with students’ symptom reduction in a brief psychodynamic intervention?
In conclusion, our study shows that brief counseling intervention shows improvement in students’ symptoms by both investigating the instruments and analyzing the writing style of counselors who performed the brief treatments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology)
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Animal joy: A book of laughter and resuscitation.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 224-226; doi:10.1037/pap0000462Reviews the book, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir (2022). The growing interest in psychoanalytic thought in particular and, more generally, in questioning the norms of mental health is an intriguing development in the current cultural moment. Animal Joy addresses the issues in a way that engages a great deal of human experience, particularly of the arts, and as such is a worthwhile contribution to discussions of these issues. At the same time, the truly radical nature of the issues she is addressing, and how the ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of The queerness of childhood: Essays from the other side of the looking glass.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(3), Jul 2023, 221-223; doi:10.1037/pap0000461Reviews the book, The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass by Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber (2022). This text succeeds in its strategy, set out by the editors in their introduction, of querying/queering childhood beyond the well-known tropes of the nonnormative-outsider-homo-disrupter child. An aim of the collection, implicitly and explicitly, is for queerness to work at dismantling normativities from inside as well as outside dominant discourses without becoming entrenched in oppositional and militant methodolo...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
