[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience: the end of a schism ?]
Lotstra F Rev Med Brux 2007 Mar-Apr;28(2):91-6 PMID: 17561723 Abstract For some neurobiologists, present biological descriptions of the brain may integrate the theoretical frame initiated by Freud. The recent acquisitions of neurobiology prove a plasticity of the neural network anabling the inscription of the experiment. The neuroplasticity constitutes the cornerstone of the reconciliation between the […]
[The role of biography in 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 […]
Can psychiatry residents be attracted to analytic training? A survey of five residency programs
Katz DA, Kaplan M J Am Psychoanal Assoc 2010 Oct;58(5):927-52 PMID: 21148130 Abstract In the face of fewer psychiatrist applicants for psychoanalytic training, determining the interest of current psychiatric residents in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry is a pressing concern. To gauge this interest, an anonymous online survey was sent to residents from five psychiatry residency […]
Is the Oedipus complex still the cornerstone of psychoanalysis? Three obstacles to answering the question
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 […]
Discourses of anxiety and transference in nursing practice: the subject of knowledge
Evans AM, Pereira DA, Parker JM Nurs Inq 2009 Sep;16(3):251-60 PMID: 19689652 Abstract The nurses' relationship to knowledge has been theorised in a variety of different ways, not the least being in relation to medical dominance. In this study, the authors report on one of the findings of a case study into nurses' anxiety informed […]
Jung and the Nazis: some implications for psychoanalysis
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 […]
Implications of the current insolubility of the mind-brain problem for the contemporary practice of psychodynamic psychiatry
Chessick RD J Am Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry 2009;37(2):315-51 PMID: 19591564 Abstract Abstract Even in this so-called era of the brain, there has been no consensual agreement on understanding the genesis of the mind by the brain, the problem that also baffled Freud, the neurologist at the start of his great discoveries. Especially, there has […]
Between paranoia and creativity: candidates' experience of psychoanalytic training
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 […]
Paradigm and ideology in psychiatric history writing: the case of psychoanalysis
Micale MS J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 1996 Mar;184(3):146-52 PMID: 8600217 Abstract The influence that paradigms may exert on scientific research programs is well established. The effect of organizing cognitive models on the writing of disciplinary histories, however, is less familiar although equally decisive. This essay explores the effects of ideological and paradigmatic factors on the […]
The importance of capacities in psychoanalysis and the language of human development
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 […]
Paradigms and crises in psychoanalysis
Knight IF Psychoanal Q 1985 Oct;54(4):597-614 PMID: 3906734 Abstract The use of T. S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a model for the history of psychoanalysis is addressed. It is shown that his categories have been regularly misapplied in the interest of establishing the scientific status of psychoanalysis, or of proposing a new theoretical […]
This art of psychoanalysis. Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries
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 […]
Foreign bodies; or, how did Darwin invent the symptom?
Rowlinson M Vic Stud 2010;52(4):535-59 PMID: 21294375 Abstract Beginning with a discussion of the sources in Darwin's writing for Freud's theory of the hysterical symptom, this essay proceeds to a symptomatic reading of Darwin himself. With reference to "The Origin of Species," "The Descent of Man," and "The Expression of the Emotions," this essay shows […]
The relevance of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit to the process of contemporary psychoanalysis
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 […]
The psychodynamic diagnostic manual: an effort to compensate for the limitations of descriptive psychiatric diagnosis
McWilliams N J Pers Assess 2011 Mar;93(2):112-22 PMID: 21347961 Abstract This article describes, from the perspective of a participant in the process, the background of and rationale for the development of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM), a classification system based on both long-standing clinical observation and recent empirical research. It was hoped that the PDM […]
[A glossary of the terms used in psychoanalysis]
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 […]
Coincidences in analysis: Sigmund Freud and the strange case of Dr Forsyth and Herr von Vorsicht
Pierri M Int J Psychoanal 2010 Aug;91(4):745-72 PMID: 20840637 Abstract Freud's interest in thought transference opens the possibility for psychoanalytic research on the primary preverbal language and the maternal function, which the emphasis on verbal and paternal communication had hidden in the background of the setting. The author advances a new interpretation of coincidences in […]
The development and organization of attachment: implications for psychoanalysis
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, […]
[Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939) and German psychiatry]
Tölle R Nervenarzt 2008 Jan;79(1):90-6, 98 PMID: 18058081 Abstract Eugen Bleuler was born 150 years ago, and about 100 years ago he published his "Schizophrenia" for the very first time-giving rise to a retrospective view especially concerning German psychiatry. Together with Emil Kraepelin, who was more or less of the same epoch as Freud, E. […]
On "action language" in psychoanalysis
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 […]
Privacy and disclosure in psychoanalysis
Kantrowitz JL J Am Psychoanal Assoc 2009 Aug;57(4):787-806 PMID: 19724067 Abstract The tension between privacy and disclosure in psychoanalysis operates in various ways in analyst, supervisee, and supervisor. Analysts need to maintain the privacy of their patients by keeping their material confidential; they also need to know and share their own internal conscious conflicts to […]
Current developments in French ethnopsychoanalysis
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 […]
[Hans Prinzhorn. His discussion of psychoanalysis in Dresden and Frankfurt (1922-1928)]
Hoffmann K Luzif Amor 2008;21(41):153-9 PMID: 19230332 Abstract Hans Prinzhorn, author of a classical work on the art of mentally ill patients, has almost been forgotten as a psychotherapist discussing psychoanalysis. For several years he worked in a sanatorium in Dresden where Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was one of his colleagues. He supported psychoanalysis at first, but […]
["A magical atmosphere was our vision when we founded the institution". The sanatorium "Schloss Tegel" in statu nascendi (1904-1907)]
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 […]
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
Eckardt MH J Am Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry 2006;34(1):5-12 PMID: 16548742 Abstract On the occasion of its 50 anniversary, the members of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry can look back with pride and be aware that this professional society has been true to its original goal and passionate mission. Thanks for this […]
Vitamins for the soul: John Bowlby's thesis of maternal deprivation, biomedical metaphors and the deficiency model of disease
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. […]
Affirming 'That's not psycho-analysis!' On the value of the politically incorrect act of attempting to define the limits of our field
Blass RB Int J Psychoanal 2010 Feb;91(1):81-9 PMID: 20433476 Abstract This paper is concerned with the value of the act of defining the field of psychoanalysis. It examines the reasons why adopting and especially giving voice to a definition that excludes approaches considered by some analysts to be analytic is commonly regarded as unacceptable within […]
Norman Vincent Peale, Smiley Blanton and the hidden energies of the mind
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 […]
Separation and divergence: the untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation
van der Horst FC, van der Veer R J Hist Behav Sci 2009;45(3):236-52 PMID: 19575387 Abstract The work of Robertson and Bowlby is generally seen as complementary, Robertson being the practically oriented observer and Bowlby focusing on theoretical explanations for Robertson's observations. The authors add to this picture an "untold story" of the collaboration between […]
Notes on psychoanalysis by a participant observer: a personal chronicle
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 […]
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