{"title":"A hypothesis on the enigmatic nature of psychosis","authors":"F. de Masi","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.1917968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.1917968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This contribution deals with the difficulty in understanding the specific nature of psychotic functioning. These patients distort their perceptive apparatus to create dissociated sensorial worlds in which to live. They cannot be treated with the analytic technique employed with neurotic patients because they are unable to use the intuitive functions that enable psychic reality to be recognized. My hypothesis is that their mind functions as a sensory organ that is able to produce a new alternative reality to the real one. This paper develops a series of considerations on the nature of the enigma of psychosis and the way in which it is possible to analytically meet the psychotic patient.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123417123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Goldblatt, E. Ronningstam, B. Herbstman, M. Schechter
{"title":"Therapists’ reactions to the suicide of a patient: traumatic loss impairing bereavement and growth","authors":"M. Goldblatt, E. Ronningstam, B. Herbstman, M. Schechter","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.1892905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.1892905","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When a patient dies by suicide while in treatment, there are a wide range of reactions from therapists involved in the patient’s treatment. Intrapsychic, interpersonal and systemic responses sustain or impair the bereavement process. At times this loss can be experienced traumatically such that it interferes with the therapist’s grieving process and undermines their capacity to mourn and grow. In this paper we discuss the therapist’s experience of the patient’s suicide as a traumatic loss that challenges the coping defenses and affects bereavement and growth.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121809542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is the psychic, how can it be grasped and understood? Bernd Nissen, Berlin","authors":"B. Nissen","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2021.1930505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2021.1930505","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When can we speak of psychic quality? Does an affect, e.g., anxiety, already have mental quality? Does the expectation of the breast, for example, already have a psychological quality? The author puts forward the thesis that psychic quality only arises when elementary and conceptual levels are combined. The sensory impressions and sensations transformed into α elements combine in the conception, which is resulting from the realized pre-conception, and stabilize it. It is theoretically and metapsychologically explained how mental quality arises in a moment of presence and how the transformation of this moment into the presentational brings about a naming and the differentiation of the mental system. Since this process takes place in the analysis in the transference relationship, it is accessible to both participants and leads to understanding. Only the pair can discover and create psychic quality. In a detailed clinical vignette of an initial interview, this view is traced in detail and the interwoven interplay between emerging pre-concept and the grasping of sensory phenomena is traced. A young woman, severely ill with hypochondria, instantly stages a storm of sensual impressions that cannot be understood. Only an idea of the patient’s inner world opens up a perspective and can then connect with a specific silence that appears twice. In this way, an interpretation succeeds that makes the patient listening up.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114773035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gilgamesh: The First Tragic Man","authors":"K. Türkarslan","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1782703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1782703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studying myths with psychoanalytic understanding is an attempt as old as psychoanalysis itself. Being the oldest written story, the Epic of Gilgamesh narrates the heroic journeys and the desperate search for the immortality of Sumerian semi-legendary king, Gilgamesh. In the present article, the main themes of the epic, comprising fellowship and fear of death, were analysed through self-psychological concepts of twinship selfobject needs and the transformations of narcissism. One of the major schools of psychoanalysis, self-psychology, investigates and understands human experiences from the perspective of selfobject experiences in which the psychological functions of selfobjects are utilized to preserve cohesiveness, vitality, and harmony of the self as extensively described by Heinz Kohut and other self-psychologists.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133672716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilhelm Reich’s character analysis revisited","authors":"P. Anthi","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1797436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1797436","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Reich character analytic technique is revisited. Many psychoanalytical researchers maintain that real psychic change only can occur through alterations in the implicit/procedural memory system. Therefore, they claim that analytical work should be focused on helping the patient to be aware of patterns of non-verbal manifestations and modes of behaving. The prominent problem of these researchers is that they do not have a workable and adequate methodology for investigating early experiences implicitly encoded. An improved character analytic approach can be applied to detect and explore such early experiences. The author presents clinical examples demonstrating that a character analytic approach to various non-verbal phenomena implicitly coded, can trigger and evoke different affects as crying, anger, laughter and anxiety etc. Moreover, clinical observations indicate that in the wake of such feeling states there quite often follows memories in the form of fragmented visual pictures related to relevant preverbal experiences.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127580211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming an individual – integrating the working through in the countertransference","authors":"M. Isachsen","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1782705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1782705","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a clinical case where the therapist experiences negative countertransference reactions that impair the sense of herself. The therapist feels totally controlled by her negative feelings activated by the patient; making her incapable to think her own thoughts and triggering a loss of her own subjectivity. The therapist’s countertransference reactions may appear due to a confusion between the self and the object in the patient which is further evoked in the therapist through projective identification. Essential for the therapy is the therapist’s working through in the countertransference to recover her own self in a relationship with the patient. A struggle for a true self and sounder object-relationships may be considered a goal in therapy in psychoanalytic theory. The movement from the paranoid-schizoid to the depressive position, the resolution of the oedipal situation and the creation of the Third all emphasize the importance of a realistic experience of the other, the two latter clearly demanding the creation of a third part in this process. This article argues that the appearance of a triangulation in the therapist’s mind and in the patient–therapist relationship was crucial for the therapist to contain her countertransference reactions and for her subjectivity to recover.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"493 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121170408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dawning understanding of enactment and sado-masochistic interaction - a child analysis of a latency child","authors":"Henrik Kamphus","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1814088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1814088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper seeks to describe how a sado-masochistic dynamic for a long period of time characterized the relationship between the analyst and the analysand. But after a dawning reflective understanding that the analytic relationship was filled with sado-masochistic quality he succeeded better in liberating himself from a destructive pathological dynamic and reclaim an analytic attitude. The discussion of the clinical material consists of mainly three parts: The sadomasochistic relationship gives a picture of the power-struggle in the patient´s general way of relating. The understanding of enactment shows how this is played out in the relationship with the analyst, and technically how analyst-centred-interpretations can be a tool in addressing this difficult and emotional straining work. The author also claims that there is a natural connection between these constructs in analysis with children taken into account that children are emotionally more immature with a tendency to acting out and to a greater degree need the emotionally containing- and affirmative basis of analyst-centred interpretations that exemplifies the need of a containing analyst with an alpha-function.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126389185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A psychoanalytic perspective on the ‘foreigner’ and the ‘uncanny’ of cognitive psychology","authors":"Dario Alparone, V. L. La Rosa","doi":"10.1080/01062301.2020.1788797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01062301.2020.1788797","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Starting from the Freud’s text ‘The uncanny’, this paper aims to reflect on the uncanny in psychoanalysis and apply it to the reading of the social experience of strangeness that our communities experience with regard to the ‘foreigner’. For this purpose, various psychoanalytic perspectives on the uncanny are investigated and the Lacanian approach to the question of the Real is further explored. We also deal with cognitive social psychology that has developed interpretative models and intervention methods concerning the migratory phenomenon and the perception of diversity. Building on these insights, we can apply the salient points of the psychoanalytic approach to the foreigner, precisely in terms of uncanny. If in cognitivism the external and extraneous stimulus to the reference categories of the subject produces anxiety, in a psychoanalytic perspective the uncanny implies a subjective sharing in the perception of anguish.","PeriodicalId":346715,"journal":{"name":"The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124360453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}