{"title":"Freud's Standard Edition Gets an Upgrade: An Interview with Dr. Mark Solms, Translator of the <i>Revised Standard Edition (RSE) of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud</i>.","authors":"John G Cottone","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dr. Mark Solms recently completed a 30-year update of the definitive English-language version of the complete works of Sigmund Freud. This new 24-volume set, referred to as the <i>Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud</i> (RSE), was published in the spring of 2024. In this interview, Dr. Solms discusses Freud's scientific works and correspondences that were either newly discovered or newly translated (by him) into English and added to this new edition. Included in this discussion are writings that, Solms believes, have the potential to change the way Freud is viewed within his cultural epoch. Also discussed are the ways that Freud's religious background may have shaped his theories.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"53 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651254","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":"Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Psychotherapy: A Medical Student Perspective.","authors":"Christopher Campbell","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.33","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the ways artificial intelligence (AI) may impact the field of psychotherapy through the perspective of a prospective psychiatric trainee. The author discusses how AI may facilitate psychotherapy training and increase psychotherapy treatment outcomes. Therapy chatbots and their potential to increase access to care, particularly for marginalized populations, are discussed. Concerns regarding the integration of AI with psychotherapy are also examined, including the potential diminishment of the role of psychotherapists, negative sequelae of therapy chatbots, ethical concerns, and limitations of AI. The author concludes that psychotherapists may cautiously embrace and explore AI technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"53 1","pages":"33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651202","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":"Communication Paradoxes in Borderline Personality Disorder.","authors":"Mark L Ruffalo","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.27","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Borderline personality disorder is a disorder marked by a pattern of contradictory, paradoxical, and self-defeating behavior, yet the communication methods of patients with the condition have remained largely unexamined since the disorder was first described nearly a century ago. This article applies communication theory to the study of borderline personality disorder in an attempt to understand patients' characteristically paradoxical modes of relating. Three types of double-bind communications are examined-the \"be spontaneous\" paradox, the covert contract, and the Kafka trap. The potential psychodynamic mechanisms and interpersonal effects of double-bind communication in patients with borderline personality disorder are briefly explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"53 1","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651230","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":"Adolescent School Shooters and Traumatic Childhood Development: Chronic Abuse, Deprivation, Isolation, and Soul Murder.","authors":"Nina E Cerfolio","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.61","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2025.53.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the roots of school violence are complex and multidetermined, the origins remain deeply embedded in our society. It is now established that there is a high prevalence of mass shooters with undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric illness. In this article case material illustrates the psychodynamic and psychosocial determinants of school shootings. Shooters typically experience loss, trauma, bullying, abandonment, and undiagnosed psychiatric illness. They are often unwanted and marginalized children living in abusive environments. This article describes the psychodynamic relevance of the concept of soul murder and emphasizes the extreme isolation and loneliness experienced by shooters. The cases described might have been prevented had the assailant, after typically being identified as \"troubled\" by secondary support systems, such as families, schools, and law enforcement officials, received appropriate psychiatric treatment. There is an urgent need for more of an interdisciplinary approach involving families, school counselors, law enforcement, mental health workers, and lawyers, with a redoubling of efforts to secure appropriate psychiatric treatment for children with mental illnesses who are marginalized and may have a higher risk of violence than the general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"53 1","pages":"61-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651188","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":"Introduction to the Special Issue of Mentalization-Based Treatment with Children, Adolescents, and Families.","authors":"Efraín Bleiberg","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.425","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This introduction to the special issue on mentalization-based treatment (MBT) with children, adolescents, and families highlights a range of conceptual and clinical contributions that illustrate the richness and usefulness of applying developmental and family systems perspectives to an MBT framework to alleviate the plight of young people and their parents.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"52 4","pages":"425-434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830183","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":"Mentalization-Based Work with Families.","authors":"Eia Asen, Efrain Bleiberg, Peter Fonagy","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.563","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reviews an approach to working with families that grounds in systemic thinking the framework of mentalization-based treatment. Employing a mentalizing stance, this approach aims to interrupt coercive, nonmentalizing cycles of interaction within the family system and replace them with mentalizing conversations in which epistemic trust and the shared social-emotional learning of the we-mode can be generated. The process thus promoted is a spiral of shared attention and co-mentalizing, constantly lost and then recovered, in which therapist and family members learn to hear, recognize, understand, and trust one another and repair the inevitable disruptions in mentalizing and trust that allow family members to experience a way of shared knowing- the we-mode-that they can apply to communicate and solve problems both within the family system and in the broader social systems in which the family is embedded.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"52 4","pages":"563-583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830192","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":"Author Index to Volume 52, 2024.","authors":"","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"52 4","pages":"607-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830111","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":"Recognizing Social Injustice and Epistemic Mistrust in Helping Adolescents with Multiple Needs: The AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment) Approach.","authors":"Liz Cracknell, Peter Fuggle, Dickon Bevington","doi":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.584","DOIUrl":"10.1521/pdps.2024.52.4.584","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epistemic trust-trust in the relevance and utility of social learning-is central to helping processes between clients and workers in helping services. Yet, due to their experiences, clients may <i>adaptively</i> develop predispositions toward stances of epistemic mistrust or epistemic credulity. From an AMBIT (adaptive mentalization-based integrative treatment) perspective, this article argues that epistemic mistrust and credulity are both <i>caused by</i> social injustice and <i>generate</i> further social injustice. Helping services commonly respond in ways that fail to acknowledge this social injustice and, perversely, deliver further injustice still. Our primary focus is how these issues relate to work with clients, but we argue that they are present in work within AMBIT's other foci, too: in teams, multiagency networks, and learning. We conclude that workers and helping services have a moral duty to recognize and attend to the multiple social injustices associated with epistemic mistrust and credulity.</p>","PeriodicalId":38518,"journal":{"name":"Psychodynamic Psychiatry","volume":"52 4","pages":"584-605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830143","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}