Psychoanalysis

Küchenhoff J Z Psychosom Med Psychoanal 1996;42(1):1-24 PMID: 8852793 Abstract The construction of biographical data by the analyst and the remembrance of the past by the patient were regarded as vital for the psychoanalytic cure by Freud. Today the working-through of the transference in the actual therapeutic relationship is regarded as much more important. Whether […]

Simon B J Am Psychoanal Assoc 1991;39(3):641-68 PMID: 1939991 Abstract Current controversies about the centrality of the Oedipus complex in psychoanalysis are difficult to resolve unless we address three obstacles in the way of rational examination. The first is that the Oedipus complex, Freud's "shibboleth" of psychoanalysis, is politically controversial. Second is the great difficulty […]

Frosh S Psychoanal Hist 2005;7(2):253-71 PMID: 21877366 Abstract The involvement of Jung with German psychotherapy in the 1930s revealed a strong tendency to collaborate with the Nazis, even though his behaviour was more contradictory than has often been acknowledged. In part this was due to anti-Semitic sentiments; some of it was fueled by the apparent […]

Ward A, Gibson W, Miqueu-Baz C J Am Psychoanal Assoc 2010 Oct;58(5):891-925 PMID: 21148133 Abstract There is widespread concern regarding various aspects of psychoanalytic education. A recent paper by Patrick Casement, drawn widely from his long experience as a supervisor both in the U.K. and abroad, implied that the British Psychoanalytical Society is not exempt […]

French R Int J Psychoanal 1999 Dec;80 ( Pt 6):1215-26 PMID: 10669970 Abstract The author explores the human capacity to contain or hold experience--for self and other--by analysing the word capacity itself. Underlying the discussion is the proposition that hidden in the word capacity is a particular perspective on mental mechanisms fundamental to object-relations theory […]

Ogden TH Int J Psychoanal 2004 Aug;85(Pt 4):857-77 PMID: 15310425 Abstract It is the art of psychoanalysis in the making, a process inventing itself as it goes, that is the subject of this paper. The author articulates succinctly how he conceives of psychoanalysis, and offers a detailed clinical illustration. He suggests that each analysand unconsciously […]

Chessick RD J Am Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry 2008;36(4):677-706 PMID: 19113961 Abstract Do changes in psychoanalytic technique represent progress in knowledge or are they for the most part a sideways movement in tune with the particular changes in the socioeconomic milieu of the day? Hegel raised the question in the area of philosophy when discussing […]

Pirozynski T, Bild E, Chiriţă V Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi 1990 Oct-Dec;94(3-4):503-10 PMID: 2131542 Abstract The psychoanalytic direction in psychopathology is considered to be necessary as an explanation of concept and methodology for the medical training concerning the study and the care of mental diseases. Irrespective of certain controverted opinions on the […]

Slade A J Am Psychoanal Assoc 2000;48(4):1147-74; discussion 1175-87 PMID: 11212186 Abstract As a result of John Bowlby's breach with the British Psychoanalytic Society nearly forty years ago, his work, specifically the development of attachment theory, was until recently largely expunged from the psychoanalytic record. However, thanks to developments in both psychoanalytic and attachment theories, […]

Calogeras RC, Alston TM Psychoanal Q 1980 Oct;49(4):663-96 PMID: 7422749 Abstract The main tenets of action language are summarized in an attempt to discern the direction in which psychoanalysis might go if action language becomes the "new metapsychology." The principal roots of action language are traced to the different linguistic/language and personality-and-culture models of anthropology […]

Sturm G, Nadig M, Moro MR Transcult Psychiatry 2011 Jul;48(3):205-27 PMID: 21742950 Abstract French ethnopsychoanalytic approaches to therapy with immigrants combine the psychoanalytical interest in subjectivity with a specific concern for cultural factors and with the role migration plays as a crucial life event. Recent approaches consider culture as profoundly hybrid and use the notions […]

Bernhardt H Luzif Amor 2011;24(47):59-65 PMID: 21598592 Abstract This contribution addresses the early years of the sanatorium, founded by the medical doctor and later psychoanalyst Johann Jaroslaw Marcinowski. His approach to therapy, his ideas about interior design as well as landscape gardening were of significant influence on the sanatorium in which Ernst Simmel opened his […]

Duniec E, Raz M Hist Psychiatry 2011 Mar;22(85 Pt 1):93-107 PMID: 21879579 Abstract In 1951 John Bowlby, British psychoanalyst and child psychiatrist, published his now famous report, Maternal Care and Mental Health, commissioned by the World Health Organization. In this report, Bowlby coined the term 'maternal deprivation', which quickly permeated into Western psychiatry and psychology. […]

Capps D J Relig Health 2009 Dec;48(4):507-27 PMID: 19475512 Abstract This article on Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton, who cofounded the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in 1937, focuses on books that they wrote in the 1950s: Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) and Blanton's Love or Perish (1956). Similarities between Peale's […]

Brenner C J Am Psychoanal Assoc 1987;35(3):539-56 PMID: 3611581 Abstract Experience has shown how difficult it may be to decide which ideas are of passing interest and relatively little value and which are more important and fruitful. Examples of each are given in the form of a personal memoir. Some thoughts are added about the […]