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The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions , by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 160  pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What ’s new in parallel process? the evolution of supervision’s signature phenomenon
AbstractThe concept of parallel process has played a central role in psychoanalytic supervision for the last 60  years, generating continuing interest in the power of the unconscious to create unexpected intersections between the analytic and supervisory relationships. I track the evolution of the concept, starting with its invention by an interpersonalist psychoanalyst, adoption by two ego psychologists, en richment by object relations theory, and, finally, redefinition as a multi-directional dynamic by relational psychoanalysts. I then further elaborate the relational view of parallel process, illustrating its complex, ...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - July 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

On the Presence and Absence of Supervisors
AbstractThe presence or absence of another person, and the relationship between these two contradictory and complementary relational phenomena, significantly influence people ’s emotional experiences and developmental processes. These phenomena are often intertwined and in continuous dialectic with each other, thereby creating relational paradoxes in infant-parent, patient-therapist, and supervisee-supervisor relationships. Similar to other relational paradoxes, those created in supervision by supervisors’ intermittent presence, cannot and should not be resolved, but have to be comprehended and accepted by both partner...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - July 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century , by C ândida Sé Holovko and Frances Thomson-Salo, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 266pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - July 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion ’s Classic Work , edited by Catalina Bronstein and Edna O’Shaughnessy, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 186pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Freud ’s Legacy and Modern Theories of Ineffable Trauma
AbstractNotions of ineffability, what cannot be put into words, vary depending on the historical and cultural context and, in particular, on shifting linguistic ideologies about the capabilities and limits of language. In recent decades psychoanalysts have embraced a modern notion of ineffability centered around traumatic bodily experiences that are thought to be inexpressible. However, these ideas break with Freudian ideas about language and, most importantly, with his understanding of the processes of interpretation that give meaning to both psychic pain and attempts to heal it. Contra Freud, current theories of ineffabl...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience , edited by Phyllis L. Sloate, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, (2018), 288  pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - June 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Web of Sorrow: Mistrust, Jealousy, Lovelessness, Shamelessness, Regret, and Hopelessness, by Salman Akhtar, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 180pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Donnel B. Stern and Irwin Hirsch (Editors): The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960 ’s–1990’s : Rethinking Transference and Countertransference ; AND Further Developments in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, 1980’s–2010’s : Evolving Interest in the Analyst’s Subjectivity
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach by Patricia A. DeYoung, Routledge, New York, 2015, 190pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Dream and the Image: Creative Transformations in Psychoanalytic Space
AbstractPsychoanalysis is a transformational process through which meanings become visible and foreclosed identity may be further constituted. Winnicott (1971) marks the crucial developmental function of the relationship that is good enough to tolerate the separateness of the other. The analyst ’s ability to “take the transference” enables the patient to locate himself in relation to another mind and being in ways that did not happen sufficiently in childhood. This process requires the signification of personal meanings that can become consensual without subverting one’s own becomi ng in the process. The dream prov...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Considering Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
AbstractPsychoanalytic therapy is not supposed to cure man from death, nor to help him forget about it. It is supposed to deal with the soul, and it is up to the soul to deal with death. Death is actually not an issue for psychoanalytic therapy —its only problem can be the soul. On the other hand, only for the soul is death an authentic problem. Only the soul can authentically bring death into question. Psychoanalysis has indebted humanity by finding the strength and critical prudence in a crucial moment for civilization to remove the ve il of prohibition and shame from sexuality, which had been repressed for centuries. ...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Large-group identity, who are we now? leader –follower relationships and societal–political divisions
AbstractThis paper aims to explore severe societal –political divisions and interferences with democratic processes and human rights issues in many locations around the world, including in the United States, and examines the role of leader–follower relationships related to such developments. The term “large group” describes hundreds, thousan ds or millions of people— most of whom will never see or even know about each other as individuals, but who share many of the same sentiments. This paper first describes how a child becomes a member of a large-group and how adults sometimes develop a second type of large-grou...
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - May 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Postmemory
This article presents a psychoanalytic reading of the postmemory literature, drawing on second generation Holocaust literature and in particular rendering the distinction between po stmemory as a mode of traumatic identification and postmemorial work as a form ofworking through. Active memorial work that allows repetitions to be turned into processes of recovery is essential for the laying of ghosts to rest. (Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis)
Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - April 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Working-Through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising by Raluca Soreanu, Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2018, 247pp.
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Source: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research