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Psychoanalytic Interpretation
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Sigmund Freud's five long case histories have been the focus of seemingly endless fascination and criticism. This article examines how the long case-history genre developed and its impact on the professionalization of psychoanalysis. It argues that the long case histories, using a distinctive form th...
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PMID: 21488427
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The author considers sensory perceptions arising from the body to be the first expressions of self-consciousness and mental existence in patients who are overwhelmed by a dimensionless abyss of nothingness. This perspective can help the analyst in catalyzing the patient's integration with his deepes...
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PMID: 21141781
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The Greek myth of Kore/Persephone captures a particular psychopathology of women who are torn between a deadened and often asexual husband (Hades) and an ongoing close relationship with a caretaking mother (Demeter). Psychoanalytic work often reveals that these women live in the shadow of their moth...
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PMID: 21141782
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I experiences as a tank officer, thus engaging in historicizing a traumatic emotional experience. A close reading of the many layers in these writings suggests that the war experiences influenced the metapsychology he created. The author argues that haunting questions regarding the ability of the mi...
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PMID: 21141783
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I use the film Babette's Feast as a parable to portray the impasse that often arises out of the experience of complex trauma. The experience of such trauma invokes a crisis of reality. It overflows the boundaries of rational containment. There are no mechanisms with which to apprehend such an event,...
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PMID: 20883311
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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Despite advances in psychiatry, treatment outcomes are still a big problem, and are not always substantially better than it was in the past time. Treatment resistance remains a serious psychiatric problem. One of the reasons for that is that the pendulum has swung from a psychodynamic framework to a...
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PMID: 20562772
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I will describe the relation between these defences and the role of the superego and their specific function in adolescent breakdown. While one type of manic defence operates by the ego's identification with a sadistic superego the other one operates via evacuation of a guilt-inducing superego. I wi...
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PMID: 20590929
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We are awake and while we are asleep. From another somewhat puzzling perspective, he views dreams solely as manifestations of what the dreamer is unable to think....
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PMID: 20590926
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We have virtually no access to individual terrorists; only their actions are visible. The founders of the Italian terrorist group, the Red Brigades, on the other hand, have written about their experiences and have exhaustively explained their motivations. The author's premise is that these autobiogr...
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PMID: 20590927
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There has been increasing interest among analysts in the possibilities of enriching psychoanalytic thought through fuller incorporation of attachment theory and research. This paper offers a clinical illustration of the ways in which attention to an attachment perspective can lead to novel and usefu...
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PMID: 20590928
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Archives de Pédiatrie (17)4 2010
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Teenagers' suicidal gestures are a major problem of public health and it is important to understand its meaning. A global taking care of teenagers hospitalized after a suicide attempt or a suicidal threat by the pediatric teams and by the team of child psychiatry, having links with each department,...
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PMID: 20176463
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The author believes that contemporary psychoanalysis has shifted its emphasis from the understanding of the symbolic meaning of dreams, play, and associations to the exploration of the processes of thinking, dreaming, and playing. In this paper, he discusses his understanding of three forms of think...
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PMID: 20496835
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The author presents case material of a rigid, schizoid patient who at some point during his treatment began to come late for sessions. He once missed an entire session only to appear at the door after the scheduled hour had passed; this "timing" was evidently intentional. Discussion centers upon the...
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PMID: 20496838
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The author discusses the analyst's reactions to being the object of the patient's transference, noting that this topic has been somewhat neglected in the psychoanalytic literature because of the centrality of transference analysis to the psychoanalytic method. He identifies different dimensions of c...
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PMID: 20496836
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Using material from the analysis of a male patient, the author examines the meanings of the decapitated body of a woman in various religious and cultural beliefs and myths, including those represented by the image of the Hindu goddess Lajja Gauri, and the relevance of these to male denial of creativ...
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PMID: 20496840
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The importance and difficulty of validating psychoanalytic interpretations at the time they are made led the author to propose an existential hypothesis method, which involves formulating fundamental psychoanalytic theories as existential hypotheses (i.e., hypotheses that claim the theories are true...
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PMID: 20496841
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We mean by technique these days, a question that has implications for analytic training and supervision. In this paper, the author reflects back on his analytic training experience, specifically at how two of his supervisors regarded technique, how it was taught, and the various ways in which it was...
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PMID: 20212442
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This paper describes the author's experience of initial disorientation when encountering for the first time in supervision an interpersonal analytic approach with an emphasis on active questioning of the patient through the use of a detailed inquiry. This initial disorientation is linked to a predom...
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PMID: 20212443
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The poignant and timeless Broadway musical West Side Story is viewed from the standpoint of taking musical forms as psychoanalytic data. The musical configuration of notes called the tritone (or diabolus in musica) is taken as a sonic metaphor expressing ambiguity both in musical voc...
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PMID: 20234007
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Psychoanalytic review (97)1 2010
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Psychoanalytic review (97)1 2010
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Our paper deals with a short Jungian interpretation of Csontvary's art, too....
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PMID: 20938061
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychiatria Danubina (21 Suppl 1) 2009
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Sexuality and sexual disorders of patients with psychoses are frequently neglected and under-investigated. The main purpose of the present study is to discuss the subjective experience of sexuality in patients with psychosis within the general psychodynamic and phenomenological understandings of psy...
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PMID: 19789494
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Through her description of the analysis of a traumatized woman dedicated to the search for power, the author elaborates Bion's (1958) concept of the obstructive object. The complex relationships among the obstructive object, later trauma, and the development of a pathological organization of the per...
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PMID: 19685814
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In the spirit of Freud's invitation to other investigators to elaborate on his "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (1909), the author offers additional and differing views on the case of the Rat Man (Dr. Ernst Langer). These views have been informed by the evolution of psychoanalysis over th...
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PMID: 19685813
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We learn about ourselves by imaginatively listening to our own thoughts through the ears of the other. At the beginning of life, we need a witness to become a self. Later, patients listen to themselves as they imagine their analysts hear them, and in this way create new narrative freedom. The resolu...
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PMID: 19685811
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The author traces the development of Freud's conception of the nature and significance of transference in the psychoanalytic process. He notes that from 1910 onward, Freud was convinced that the analysis of the transference is the sole factor involved in the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic trea...
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PMID: 19685817
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The author presents an overview of recent clinical/theoretical work on the construction of otherness in structured forms of hatred. He then uses clinical material to demonstrate three interwoven strands of meaning attached to the word nigger, a pejorative used frequently by a patient during the cour...
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PMID: 19685815
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A case is discussed in which the patient's management of aspects of the payment process is seen as a focal point in a perverse defensive structure operating in the treatment. Detailed process material is examined with attention to transference and countertransference components of this defensive pro...
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PMID: 19685816
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This article focuses on the personal experience of regret and the importance of coming to terms with our regrets. It begins with a sermon preached by the first author in which the issue of regret is explored by means of a summary of the film The Big Kahuna, continues with a discussion of recent arti...
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PMID: 19252986
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This paper examines the book of Job for encoded psychological meaning. Its main conclusion is that the story imagery expresses a need to rectify fatherly and parental oblivion for a child who is the object of the destructive envy of a sibling. A family dynamic is constructed from the story's repeate...
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PMID: 19421870
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This study of the modern film version of "Phantom of the Opera" employs a mythic theme to illustrate how women can involve themselves with charismatic and eroticized narcissistic men, who are unavailable for true relationship within the conscious world of societal connection. How can the healthy-her...
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PMID: 19536180
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Insider trading scandals on Wall Street have focused public attention on the abuse of money and power in the service of greed. The analytic situation described in this paper involves a patient who was involved in a major white-collar crime in the 1990s and imprisoned on charges of fraud. Release fro...
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PMID: 19536178
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Psychoanalytic review (96)2 2009
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Jane Austen's most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813), illuminates and is illuminated by psychoanalytic aesthetics. When Austen dramatizes unconscious oedipal/sibling rivalries, irony acts as a type of aesthetic ambiguity (E. Kris 1952). A psychoanalytic perspective shows that Austen uses a g...
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PMID: 19507448
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A study of the Greek text of Sophocles' Antigone provides a deeper understanding of the identities and psychodynamic interaction between the play's two main characters. Creon's particular diction, imagery, and even syntax constitute a subtext reflecting his rigidly hierarchical attitude and paranoid...
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PMID: 19507449
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The author applies Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking to study the influence of imaginative literature on the development of the capacity for figurative or metaphorical thought in response to affect-laden experience. Using a selection from Emily Dickinson's poetry and a soliloquy from Shakesp...
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PMID: 19507452
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The ways in which Kafka and Borges struggled with the creation of consciousness in their lives and in their literary works are explored in this two-part essay. In Part II, a biographical sketch of Jorge Luis Borges is juxtaposed with a close reading of one of his fictions, "The Library of Babel" (19...
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PMID: 19507445
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The author discusses the special role played by Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet in the history of psychoanalysis. Freud and many of his followers have treated Hamlet as if he were a real person inhibited by the Oedipus complex. In this presentation, Hamlet is understood as the embodiment of a brill...
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PMID: 19507446
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The ways in which Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges struggled with the creation of consciousness in their lives and in their literary works are explored in this two-part essay. In Part I, the author juxtaposes a biographical sketch of Kafka with a close reading of his story "A Hunger Artist" (1924),...
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PMID: 19507444
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The author argues that Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600) was influenced by the death in 1596 of the playwright's 11-year-old twin son, Hamnet. Beyond the similarity between the dead child's name and the play's title, the language of the play, a supreme act of sublimation, does at times seem preoccupied wi...
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PMID: 19507447
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In terms of symptom change, women responded better to therapy with transference interpretations, while men responded better to therapy without transference interpretations. Patient sex showed moderator effects over and above the moderator effects of QOR. Clinical Trial Registration Number: NCT004234...
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PMID: 19254438
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The superior temporal lobe is currently at the focus of intensive research in infantile autism, a psychopathologic disorder apparently representing the severest failure of access to intersubjectivity, i.e. the ability to accept that others exist independently of oneself. Access to intersubjectivity...
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PMID: 19718888
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Psychoanalytic review (96)1 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)1 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)1 2009
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Psychoanalytic review (96)1 2009
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The article analyzes the concepts of archive, memory and tradition in the work of Mário de Andrade, highlighting the fundamental theoretical references to the concept of the unconscious in Freud's psychoanalytical discourse.
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PMID: 19824338
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