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The Future of Psychoanalysis: The Debate About the Training Analyst System , edited by Peter Zagermann, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 378  pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment , by Christopher Bollas, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 130  pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Escape From Traumas: Emigration And Hungarian Jewish Identity After The Holocaust
This study provides a psychoanalytical analysis of the changes in Hungarian survivors ’ psychic realities and the construction of their new identities, depending on the survival strategy they chose. The hypothesis is that the rebuilding of the demolished identity and the level of trauma elaboration depend on whether this process was done at the place of the trauma or in a different society. The study uses psychoanalytic and social psychology literature to follow the impacts of the emigration process, to draw conclusions and apply them to trauma elaboration after the Holocaust. (Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis)
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The “Authoritarian Personality” Reconsidered: the Phantom of “Left Fascism”*
This article explores the question of “Left fascism,” which emerged in relation to discussions around the Student Movement in the German Federal Republic in the crucial decade between 1967–1977. The term was originally coined by Jürgen Habermas in a lecture entitled “The Phantom Revolution and its Children” in which he sugges ts that the extreme voluntarism of the students could not but be characterized as “Left fascist.” Such a characterization becomes the basis for a vitally important exchange of letters between Herbert Marcuse and Theodor W. Adorno from January to August of 1969 on the relation between t...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Traumatization Through Human Agency: “Embodied Witnessing” is Essential in the Treatment of Survivors*
AbstractThe importance of human relations in understanding and treating trauma is evident not only from the severity of traumatization inflicted by human agency and the dissociation that ensues from traumatic interpersonal relations, but also from the analyst ’s affective participation which is essential to the reparation of the serious psychopathologies that originate in traumatization. Developing Ferenczi’s theorizations, on the identification with the aggressor, I propose that after the abuse the traumatized subject identifies partly with the per secutor and partly with the victim, which sometimes is represented by...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Primal Environment for a 21st Century ’s “Naissance”. Thoughts on the Language of Tenderness in Ferenczi’s Footsteps*
AbstractIn a progressive maternity clinic in Paris, “Les Bluets”, the team and the psychoanalyst work to create a supportive atmosphere, so that the newborn infant and the new parents can receive a respectful welcome with a holding environment. The main participants around the newborn are the parents, midwives, and nurses, and the team members sh are their observations about how to answer the infant’s needs, and adjust and satisfy his/her comfort. This meets what Ferenczi describes as tenderness. Specific, detailed feedback is given so the experience of mother-father-baby cooperation can start to take place from the ...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Working Out Phantoms in Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma
AbstractThe concept of Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma (TTT) is explored through a clinical presentation of a young man in search of a history buried by negation, disavowal, and foreclosure of the ravages of traumatic beginnings of unwelcome children. Transmitted down the generations as phantoms buried in crypts of the psyche, they emerge generations later as holes in the self manifested as a sense of meaninglessness, alienation, and feeling outcast. Historicization of the buried past can bring symbolic representation to phantoms and disperse their influence. Social consequences of unwelcome children are discusse...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Second florence ferenczi issue
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and its supervision via videoconference: experience, questions and dilemmas*
AbstractThe patient lives in Berlin, the therapist in Lisbon and the supervisor in Budapest. Not long ago, continuous psychotherapy and supervision would have been impossible in such a setting. Nowadays, modern communication technologies via the Internet create new possibilities for patients, therapists, and supervisors. However, when we engage in psychoanalytic practice via modern means of telecommunication, we need to examine if the fundamental tenets of the psychoanalytic process are preserved. We need to think about initial assessment, about how we arrange the setting, how we work with transference and countertransfere...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“primordial chant”. sÁndor ferenczi as an orphic poet*
AbstractFerenczi ’s deviations from Freudian thinking have caused enormous controversy. This paper re-examines Ferenczi’s theoretical and technical innovations through the lens of Orpha—one of his most characteristic and valuable contributions, the culmination point of his thought, and the leitmotif of his wor k. So far research on Ferenczi’s Orpha concept has been relatively sparse and there is still much obscurity about this term that he adopted from or co-created with his “evil genius” Elizabeth Severn. The following paper will attempt to shed more light on the origin, evolution, functions, and t he philosop...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - November 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The hidden voices: emotional experience and unconscious communication in the analytic space*
AbstractIn a previous work I tried to show how a parent ’s traumatic experiences can weigh on the following generations, approaching these phenomena in terms ofintrojection andincorporation. Traumatized patients who inherited such burdens suffered a block of their vital abilities, and are then challenged to later acquire the ability to symbolize what had remained unelaborated by previous generations. Accidental impressions, foreign to the patient ’s story, possibly a result of a certainpre-understanding of the patient ’s unconscious communications, emerge in countertransference and may reveal hitherto unexpressed dim...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - October 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From Ogden to Ferenczi. The constitution of a contemporary clinical thought*
AbstractThis paper, in its first part, offers historical and clinical research that aims to establish, in a new frame, forms of organizing psychoanalytic theories on psychopathology and its accompanying healing strategies. This new frame is based in two matrices ( “Freudo–Kleinian” and “Ferenczian”) and it organizes the wide knowledge established by different authors of the psychoanalytic field. Therefore, it recognizes the innovative proposals of the last three decades as transmatricial ones, in which the Freudo–Kleinian lineage and Ferenczian li neage are recognized as supplementary dimensions. In the second ...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - October 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

S ándor Ferenczi, A Classical and Contemporary Psychoanalyst
AbstractThe article intends to show how  Ferenczi is a genuine precursor for many of the themes which lie at the center of the current psychoanalytic debate and, for this reason, how he is the classical and the contemporary psychoanalyst par excellence, especially by the way he has progressively understood and learnt to operate with the patients focusing on working-through the mutual feelings engendered by the therapeutic process. (Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis)
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - October 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Constructing Intimate Space Through Narration: Ferenczi ’s Clinical Diary*
AbstractPsychoanalysis is a narrative activity of a very special kind. One could even say that the method of free association is a subversive activity since its purpose is to cut through layers of previous conditioning in the effort to open new spaces in the psyche. The hypercathexis of neurotic functioning can only be transformed if new, unknown dynamics are able to emerge, and can then be invested by the subject. This process necessitates economic change —investing novel psychic functioning. Aided by personal analytic experience, the psychoanalyst’s role is to help initiate and support this subversive activity in the...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - October 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside, by Cosimo Schinaia, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 296  pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - October 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research