Nachträglichkeit and après-coup in the psychological scientific literature: A systematic review and future perspectives.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(2), Apr 2023, 82-89; doi:10.1037/pap0000425The crucial role of Nachträglichkeit/après-coup (N/AC) in psychoanalytic psychology has been afforded lower consideration in the scientific literature than other relevant psychoanalytic constructs. No systematic reviews have been provided on this construct. We aimed at investigating the many facets of the psychoanalytic significance N/AC as addressed in the scientific literature, outlining its potential developments. According to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we selected peer-reviewed, indexed...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children’s intrapsychic processes and aggressive-defiance behaviors as a function of sex.
This study seeks to gain insight into the nature of the relationship between aspects of object relations (operationalized as the proportion of human movement responses on the Rorschach Inkblot test) and Defiance/Aggression (measured by youth self-report [SR]), by examining the moderating effect of sex. Results are based on a sample of youth (N = 62, 55% male, 45% female, 27% White, 34% Black, 21% Latine, 17% other, 68% below median income) ages 7–17, receiving mental health services at a community-based clinic in an underresourced urban population. Outcomes from the present study support the hypothesis that a child’s s...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Differentiation of self and social functioning in severe mental disorders.
In this study, we aim to explore the ways in which the process of differentiation of self develops in people with various severe mental disorders, examining its impact on social functioning together with diagnosis, current symptoms, illness variables, and sociodemographic features. One hundred thirty patients (45 diagnosed with schizophrenia, 44 with bipolar disorder, and 41 with major depressive disorder) and 45 controls were assessed using the Differentiation of Self-Inventory–Revised, the Family of Origin Scale, the 90 Symptom Check List–Revised, and the Social Adaptation Self-Evaluation Scale. As for differentiatio...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 31, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Empathy and the historical understanding of the human past.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 350-352; doi:10.1037/pap0000419Reviews the book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past by Thomas A. Kohut (see record 2020-28431-000). As per the reviewer, Thomas A. Kohut has written a book that he describes as a primer on empathy for historians. The reviewer sees it as the definitive exploration of empathy. Kohut describes empathy as a way to know people “by imagining, thinking, and perhaps even feeling one’s way inside their experience.” The key distinction he makes throughout the book is between the empathic and the external observational positi...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Home in border crossings: A psychoanalytic study of dislocations in the lives of female domestic workers.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 330-338; doi:10.1037/pap0000404Traversing psychoanalytic inroads into the lived experiences of dislocations explored with three female domestic workers in India, this research article attempts to excavate the relational contours of “home” in their lives—from the shadows that multiple home losses left behind. Examining home from sociocultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic frames, with a longitudinal view of “degrees of homeness”¹ as encountered in different phases of life, it also brings to light insidious forms of dislocation culturally engraved into gendered bod...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychotherapy trainees’ perspective on a longitudinal curriculum for the training of psychodynamic intervention competencies.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 321-329; doi:10.1037/pap0000418In psychotherapy training, longitudinal practice-based curricula for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies are scarce. Based on Kern et al.’s (1998) cycle of curriculum development we conceptualized, implemented and evaluated a longitudinal curriculum for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies (DYNAMIC curriculum). Didactic elements include practice-oriented training in small groups, enfolding model learning, peer- and standardized patient role-play, and qualified feedback. To qualitatively explore (a) ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Empathy and the historical understanding of the human past.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 350-352; doi:10.1037/pap0000419Reviews the book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past by Thomas A. Kohut (see record 2020-28431-000). As per the reviewer, Thomas A. Kohut has written a book that he describes as a primer on empathy for historians. The reviewer sees it as the definitive exploration of empathy. Kohut describes empathy as a way to know people “by imagining, thinking, and perhaps even feeling one’s way inside their experience.” The key distinction he makes throughout the book is between the empathic and the external observational positi...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Home in border crossings: A psychoanalytic study of dislocations in the lives of female domestic workers.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 330-338; doi:10.1037/pap0000404Traversing psychoanalytic inroads into the lived experiences of dislocations explored with three female domestic workers in India, this research article attempts to excavate the relational contours of “home” in their lives—from the shadows that multiple home losses left behind. Examining home from sociocultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic frames, with a longitudinal view of “degrees of homeness”¹ as encountered in different phases of life, it also brings to light insidious forms of dislocation culturally engraved into gendered bod...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychotherapy trainees’ perspective on a longitudinal curriculum for the training of psychodynamic intervention competencies.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 321-329; doi:10.1037/pap0000418In psychotherapy training, longitudinal practice-based curricula for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies are scarce. Based on Kern et al.’s (1998) cycle of curriculum development we conceptualized, implemented and evaluated a longitudinal curriculum for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies (DYNAMIC curriculum). Didactic elements include practice-oriented training in small groups, enfolding model learning, peer- and standardized patient role-play, and qualified feedback. To qualitatively explore (a) ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Empathy and the historical understanding of the human past.
Reviews the book, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past by Thomas A. Kohut (see record 2020-28431-000). As per the reviewer, Thomas A. Kohut has written a book that he describes as a primer on empathy for historians. The reviewer sees it as the definitive exploration of empathy. Kohut describes empathy as a way to know people “by imagining, thinking, and perhaps even feeling one’s way inside their experience.” The key distinction he makes throughout the book is between the empathic and the external observational positions. For historians, the external position refers to a scholar viewing the past...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Home in border crossings: A psychoanalytic study of dislocations in the lives of female domestic workers.
Traversing psychoanalytic inroads into the lived experiences of dislocations explored with three female domestic workers in India, this research article attempts to excavate the relational contours of “home” in their lives—from the shadows that multiple home losses left behind. Examining home from sociocultural, interpersonal and intrapsychic frames, with a longitudinal view of “degrees of homeness”¹ as encountered in different phases of life, it also brings to light insidious forms of dislocation culturally engraved into gendered bodies and psyches—and proposes an understanding of how these complex states of ...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychotherapy trainees’ perspective on a longitudinal curriculum for the training of psychodynamic intervention competencies.
In psychotherapy training, longitudinal practice-based curricula for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies are scarce. Based on Kern et al.’s (1998) cycle of curriculum development we conceptualized, implemented and evaluated a longitudinal curriculum for the development of psychodynamic intervention competencies (DYNAMIC curriculum). Didactic elements include practice-oriented training in small groups, enfolding model learning, peer- and standardized patient role-play, and qualified feedback. To qualitatively explore (a) perceived competency development of psychotherapy trainees participating in the...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Negative feelings toward borderline patients: Are layperson emotional reactions disorder-specific?
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(2), Apr 2023, 115-120; doi:10.1037/pap0000421Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are typically confronted with others having negative emotional reactions toward them. This is especially the case with therapeutic laypersons in the health care system as well as in their social surroundings. It is unclear, however, whether these reactions are specific to BPD or associated more broadly with poor ego functioning. In this experimental analogue study, therapeutic laypersons (N = 147) were asked to watch 20-min video segments showing different types of patients talking about an int...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Referential processes in dreams: A brief report from a COVID-19 dreams analysis.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 40(2), Apr 2023, 109-114; doi:10.1037/pap0000420The COVID-19 pandemic has been a collective trauma for the world population. Psychoanalytic literature has long proposed that dreams are a key point of access for understanding the deepest functioning of the mind. Using the multiple code theory (Bucci, 1993) as a framework, this study aims to explore the emotional and cognitive responses of the general population to COVID-19 through their dreams. A total of 613 dreams were collected in an online survey. Linguistic measures of referential process and a cluster analysis were performed, then one-wa...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Review of Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood.
Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol 39(4), Oct 2022, 347-349; doi:10.1037/pap0000417Reviews the book, Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood by Michael J. Diamond (2021). This book is first and foremost an exploration of the “inherent tensions of maturing manhood.” Its greatest value lies in the careful unraveling of the contradictions and conflicts that characterize the male developmental process throughout the life cycle. The reviewer believes that men and women alike intuitively grasp the fundamental fragility of manhood and are well-acquainted with the disintegrati...
Source: Psychoanalytic Psychology - August 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
