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From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and Their Analytic Frames by Veronica Csillag, Katalin Lanczi and Julianna Vamos, edited by Veronica Csillag, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, 256 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The outsider phenomenon and the need to belong
AbstractThe outsider phenomenon is an existential pathology interrelated with the need to belong. It is a group related experience that has developmental foundations. W. R. D. Fairbairn (1952), was one of the first psychoanalysts who systematically challenged Freudian theory, and located the human experience within social relationships. Fairbairn (1935) suggested that the family is the first social group, leading to affiliations with important groups external to the family. This paper extrapolates from Fairbairn ’s ideas about schizoid character, which is an interpersonal experience, to group experiences in a family and ...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Soft diamonds: poetic sentiment, poetic speech, and poetic specimen in the clinical hour
AbstractThree links between poetry and psychoanalysis are highlighted in this paper. These refer to the presence, in the clinical hour, of (i) poetic sentiment, (ii) poetic speech, and (iii) poetic specimen. Each is elucidated in detail and with the help of socio-clinical vignettes. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that, through the affirmative holding and partial unmasking of the instinctual-epistemic conflation in verse and free-association, both poetry and psychoanalysis seek to transform the private into shared, the hideous into elegant, and the unfathomable into accessible. (Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis)
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Analyst ’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice by Karen J. Maroda, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2022, 215 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Trauma: open concept
AbstractThis paper presents and discusses two sets of theories concerning trauma. The first involves a contemporary social theory of “cultural trauma” and the second refers to psychoanalytic theories on psychic trauma. We argue that these two groups of theories have some relevant elements in common, despite social theorists’ critique of psychoanalytic understanding on the matter. In our view, the most important meeting poin ts between these groups of theories concern (a) the possibility to think that trauma is not welded to events but has a formation process, one of attribution of meaning, (b) that this process has a...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Stations Along the Via Dolorosa Towards Good-Enough Endings
This article focuses on the prevailing aspiration to reach a “good-enough ending” in analysis, a concept that is partly realistic and partly illusional. I discuss some of the obstacles that interfere with achieving this yearned for goal, and lead to endings that are far from the misleading illusion of the good-enough termination, that many of us believe w e have achieved and are many more than it is commonly reported. I describe characteristics, obstacles, blockages, dreads within the analysand, within the analyst and in the space in between, which lead to endings which are far from good enough, by any criteria we migh...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death, by Wendy Hollway, Paul Hoggett, Chris Robertson, and Sally Weintrobe, Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, Oxfordshire, 2022, 142 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Peter Pan: The Lost Child, by Kathleen Kelley-Lain é, Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, 2023, 149 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - March 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Masked dissociation”: the many faces of technology
AbstractAfter briefly explaining the concepts of dissociation and repression and discussing the new interest that the concept of dissociation has acquired within the actual psychoanalytic panorama, the author explains the concept of a dissociative continuum and presents Peter Goldberg ’s theory on somatic dissociation. Starting from this model, she proposes an interpretation of the use of technology, and especially of the internet, as a dissociative modality that helps separate the mind from the body, one that allows the maintenance of personal security—a concept dear to Sull ivan—through physical distance. The impli...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Somatization and symbolization
AbstractPsychoanalysis had its origins in an era when feelings that could not be recognized by the mind were being manifested in the body. Psychoanalysis works towards resolving this type of split by recognizing the existence of a dual language structure that includes both body and mind as constituents of the fabric of embodied meanings. The field of psychosomatics helps to provide keys to this language, marking the essential, patterned truths that are recognized at very basic levels and increasingly organize our perceptions as we make sense of the world. In disrupting the integration of embodied meanings, trauma impedes i...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 29, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

At-one-ment and twoness are not opposites
AbstractThis paper explores how at-one-ment and twoness interact in the clinical setting. Namely, how the unconscious mode of knowing the other intuitively from the inside, by becoming at-one with them, interacts with the conscious-rational mode of knowing about the other from the outside; how experiencing the other ’s experienceas one ’s own, rather thanlike one ’s own, informs (and is informed by) the common clinical stance of twoness, in which analyst and patient meet as separate persons. Through clinical illustrations, I argue that these are complementary (rather than contradictory) modes of knowing, communicatin...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence: From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust, by Ofrit Shapira-Berman, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2022, 156 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Truth and lies: psychoanalytic perspectives
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - December 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Interview with Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PHD, July 2014
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - December 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Technique: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis, by Fred Busch, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2022, 244 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research