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Psychodynamics of Writing, by Martin Weegman, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 151 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process , by Robert P. Drozek, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 295 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - January 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet, Shopping and Work , edited by Nina Savelle-Rocklin and Salman Akhtar, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 192 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - January 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychodynamic understanding and treatment of patients with congenital disability
AbstractThis paper is a follow-up to an article published in 1989 by Cubbage and Thomas. The purpose of that article was to provide a comprehensive analysis of classical Freudian concepts such as castration anxiety, narcissism and self-regard, fear of the loss of love, secondary gain, the death instinct, and ego strength as they related to the treatment and personality development of persons with disabilities. Despite a rigorous review of the literature, an important paper of Freud ’s with direct and significant implications for persons with congenital or other early-life disabilities was inadvertently overlooked. The pu...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - December 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Architecture, urban planning and collective identity: Bilbao as a case study
AbstractThe emergence of a collective identity, a complex social and psychological process, may be linked to a specific place and a particular urban layout. Architecture demarcates interior and exterior spaces that not only frame our relationships but can also generate a mirror image of the internal world. The authors examine relevant contributions from the sparse psychoanalytic literature on this subject, to support their hypothesis that changes to a city ’s landscape, design, or architecture, when wholeheartedly embraced by its citizens, can serve to forge a new collective identity that helps to deal with absence, pain...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Music beyond sounds and its magic in the clinical process
AbstractThis paper highlights the role of music in psychic change through a clinical case. A patient, who was initially distant and cold, started to talk about music. An enactment around the analyst ’s comment about a famous conductor, started an exchange of music “notes” that changed the course of treatment. For the analyst, it brought old memories and musical reveries. For the patient, music allowed him to be in touch with undiscovered parts of himself and losses that had not been mourn ed. There was a mutual personal transformation and expanding awareness of self and other for both participants. (Source: The Ameri...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Some psychoanalytic reflections: femininity, feminism and fantasy in “apple tree yard”
AbstractThis paper examines the interplay between femininity, feminism, and fantasy, based on the analysis of the protagonist ofApple Tree Yard, a British television mini series (2017) adapted by Amanda Coe from the novel of the same name by Louise Doughty (Apple Tree Yard. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013). This examination addresses the following questions: What causes a married, 52-year-old woman, with two grown children to engage in a reckless and perverse affair with a man she does not know? What unconscious fantasies have been evoked by the traumas of her childhood and of her adult life, and how do these unc...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ferenczi ’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions: Lines of Development – Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades, edited by Aleksandar Dimitrijević, Gabriele Cassullo, and Jay Frankel, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 308pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychoanalysis versus adoption: analytic parenthood and parental countertransference
AbstractAs we know, S ándor Ferenczi compared the analytic and adoptive relationships as the psychoanalyst exercises a parental role to some extent. The author notes that a commonality between the adoptive relationship and the analytic one is that if the parental couple is burdened with painful counter-transferential e xperiences and feelings that have not been worked through, these can pose a danger for the strength of the newly developing parental relationship. In the analytic situation the analyst’s position implies the risk of conflict with the parental internal objects resulting from the primary introjectio ns, es...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From Tribal Division to Welcoming Inclusion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives by Maxine K. Anderson, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 97 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy edited by Tessa Baradon, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 191 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Place of the Visual in Psychoanalytic Practice: Image in the Countertransference , by Faye Carey, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 133 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives , by Robert D. Stolorow and George E. Atwood, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2019, 141 pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sabina Spielrein: From Being a Psychiatric Patient to Becoming an Analyst Herself
AbstractIn this paper, I evaluate Sabina Spielrein ’s life and ideas from a contemporary understanding. I do this by considering the context and situation in which she lived: a journey from being a hospitalized psychiatric patient to becoming a psychoanalyst herself. From her crucial life experiences she learned that the main psychic conflicts ste m from the struggle between life and death, and not from opposing ego drives and sexual desires. Spielrein’s considerable creative potentials were nurtured, as well as blocked by her inner conflicts, but also by the enormous historical conflicts of her time. (Source: The Amer...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - August 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The father and the paternal function in the psychoanalytical process: theoretical and clinical issues*
AbstractThe author addresses the essential aspects regarding the definition of the paternal function in metapsychological terms: how it forms and develops in the mental world, which functions it serves, or could come to serve, in the dynamic of mental functioning, and lastly, the consequent clinical implications, in particular the formation and development of symbolic capacity. In the second part, using two clinical vignettes and a clinical case, the author attempts to discuss its link to the theme of masculinity, suggesting a brief reflection on the challenges presented to the specificities of the analytical clinic. (Sour...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - August 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research