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{"title":"Safety in control-mastery theory","authors":"Eleonora Fiorenza, Marianna Santodoro, N. Dazzi, F. Gazzillo","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2168056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2168056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study presents an overview of the development of the main psychoanalytic conceptions regarding safety, an aspect that has received increasing attention within the psychoanalytic literature. After describing the hypotheses of Sigmund Freud, Joseph Sandler, John Bowlby, and Harry Stack Sullivan, the study focuses on the ideas proposed by Joseph Weiss and on control-mastery theory (CMT), a cognitive-dynamic relational theory of mental functioning, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Unlike other models, CMT stresses that human beings need to feel that both themselves and the people they love are safe; each person, however, may need something different to feel safe. Two clinical vignettes are used to illustrate how the therapist can understand, from the outset of the therapeutic process, how to help the patient feel safe, stressing the case-specific nature of the conditions of safety.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42542658","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":"Voices from the war: Some notes on the emotional experience of the war in Ukraine told by two Ukrainian psychoanalysts","authors":"P. Solano, Michele Vargiu, Ksenia Zaitseva","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What is the real experience of war? How does our mind react to the sudden threats and losses of our lives, homes, and beloved objects? What understandings can it offer to make sense of the atrocities it witnesses? What adjustments can we carry out in these circumstances? Two colleagues from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and affiliated to the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group and the Institute of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Study Group help us to shed light on these questions by sharing their personal experience and understandings of the current war that started on February 24, 2022 when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. This contribution aims to report their voices and the emotional experience of encountering their stories in order to provide readers with an unsaturated and unmediated contact with at least some aspects of the reality of war.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44847073","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":"Conditions for love: The psychoanalytic situation and the analyst’s emotions","authors":"G. Lev","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2171118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Freud has stated that the psychoanalytic cure is effected through the love of the patient for the analyst. This paper claims that the analyst’s love towards the patient is often essential as well. Countertransference love might indeed be associated with therapeutic risks, yet it is often a crucial part of the analytic process, since in order to be able to change, many people need to feel loved. The analyst’s curative love is defined by being both sublimated and passionate, modulated as well as libidinal. In addition, it is conscious, aware, and reflective, and hence any act based on it is directed solely to the patient’s psychic growth. Developing and maintaining such love is not easy. What comes to the aid of the analyst is the special construction of the analytic setting, which brings up a profound, loving interest in patients’ psyche as well as a “second self” that is consistently benevolent and loving and acts at a level of empathy rarely encountered in ordinary life.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43880806","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":"From green grass to green fields: Intersubjective thoughts about “generative” envy and jealousy","authors":"K. Eliezer","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2135762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2135762","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper ‘jealousy’ and ‘envy’ are discussed from a unique perspective: as therapeutic goals rather than as maladaptive mechanisms. Furthermore, I suggest that jealousy be regarded as a performance of love. Four states are distinguished here; two of them are ‘primal narcissistic’, and the other two are ‘intersubjective’. Intersubjective envy and jealousy should be embraced as a ‘welcome flag’ that signals a couple's entry into the oedipal layers. Mutuality and shared unconscious are described by means of ‘recognition’ as a central concept. This article views recognition as a form of identification that allows ‘me parts’ to be found and reclaimed from the significant ‘other’. In favor of historical justice and clarity, I introduce a less familiar case of Freud (1933) – Herr. P, and conclude with my own case story.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884439","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":"Veiling and unveiling: Identity formation in young Muslim women living in Germany","authors":"Lena Barth, P. Kaiser, Gonca Tuncel-Langbehn, B. Ruettner, L. Goetzmann","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2022.2126519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2022.2126519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46391589","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":"From psychoanalytic ego psychology to relational psychoanalysis, a historical and clinical perspective","authors":"M. Conci, G. Cassullo","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2186002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2186002","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2019 one of us (M.C.) published a book with the title Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis, in which he connected the clinical approach of those authors and their psychoanalytic perspective to their most important life experiences and to the scientific and interpersonal contexts in which their contributions developed, including the main partners accompanying their professional evolution. He thus tried to demonstrate not only the importance of the history of psychoanalysis for the practicing clinician, but also its relevance as a key to the pluralistic and international character of contemporary psychoanalysis. In the fall of 2018, M.C. had been contacted by Eva Papiasvili (New York) and Arne Jemstedt (Stockholm), who invited him to collaborate on the preparation of the item “Ego psychology” for the Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED). The IRED was originally conceived by Stefano Bolognini at the time of his IPA presidency (2013–2017), and is published online by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). The task that M.C. readily accepted was to contribute to the revisitation of the development of ego psychology in Europe, the reconstruction of its development in North and South America being the task of the other two regional teams, with Arne Jemstedt coordinating the European team, and Eva Papiasvili coordinating the whole work. Fascinated by such a research project and determined to do his best, M.C. came to the following two discoveries. In the first place, ego psychology had been alive and well in Europe – and not only in North America – both before and after World War II. Important ego psychologists after the war were, for example, Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982) and Paul Parin (1916–2009), who both emphasized its critical potential – which they considered to have been lost in the North American emigration. Also ego-psychologically based is the German Kassensystem, that is, in the way in which a clinical report has to be written so that the treatment will be paid by the Kassen – the German Social Security System. The nature of the most important German analytic concept, that is, the concepts of “szenisches Verstehen” and “szenische Funktion des Ich” – scenic understanding and scenic function of the ego – is ego-psychological as well. Second, M.C. came to realize that the line of thought he was articulating in the book he was then writing (see above) was in fact also applicable to ego psychology. In other words, we have almost as many approaches to ego psychology as we have pioneers dealing with it, according to their personalities and priorities. Some examples include the following: Heinz Hartmann, whose priority was the ego as the center of a new general psychology; Otto Fenichel, before him, who looked at ego psychology as the best way to formulate the analytic technique he used with his patients; Paul Federn, who developed his own ego psyc","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48117120","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":"Psychoanalytic ego psychology: A European perspective","authors":"M. Conci","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2128210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2128210","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The best way to reconstruct the history of psychoanalytic ideas is to begin from the study not of theories, but of the various authors and their contexts. Important contributions to the study of the ego in Europe had already come from Ferenczi and Fenichel, well before Hartmann founded Ego Psychology (EP), which became mainstream in North America. In Europe, before World War II, significant contributions to what here is called “psychoanalytic ego psychology” (Pep) (contrasted with Hartmann’s EP) came from Anna Freud, Paul Federn, and Gustav Bally. After World War II, contributions came from Alexander Mitscherlich, Paul Parin, and Johannes Cremerius in the German-speaking community, and from Joseph Sandler in the UK. If this is the case, we should then talk of “ego psychologies” in the same way as we talk of the various object relations theories. Pep – as it was described in the guiding principles formulated by Fenichel in the 1930s – keeps informing the clinical work of many psychoanalysts, even if they are not fully aware of it. For example, it represents the basic ingredient of the empirically verifiable “psychoanalytic therapy” formulated in detail by Helmut Thomä and Horst Kächele.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41887811","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":"Psychoanalytic theories and techniques: Dialogue, difficulties and future – Papers from the XXIInd IFPS Forum, Madrid, October 19–22, 2022","authors":"M. Conci","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2023.2184954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2184954","url":null,"abstract":"What a huge relief and what great joy for all of us to be able to meet again in person after the two and a half years that had elapsed since the XXIst International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) Forum held in Lisbon on February 5–8, 2020, with the beginning of the pandemic lockdown only about one month later! This is why we were all so thankful to the Executive Committee of the IFPS and to Miguel Ángel González Torres, the president of the Centro Psicoanalítico de Madrid and the chair of the scientific committee of the Forum, and to the colleagues who collaborated with him in organizing the latest Forum. Among these had been Romulo Aguillaume, who had organized the previous Forum inMadrid inMay 1998, together with Alejandro GállegoMeré (1929–2000) both pioneers of the IFPS in Madrid. Two of the main speakers at that time had been Gaetano Benedetti (1920–2013) and Adolf Grünbaum (1923–2018), the former dealing with the psychotherapy of schizophrenia, and the latter with his philosophical critique of psychoanalysis (see Conci, 1998). More than 200 colleagues from 21 countries participated in the 2022 Forum, which was hosted by the Madrid Academy of Medicine, situated behind the Reina Sofia Museum, close to the Atocha Railway Station. Four were the guest speakers, 26 the colleagues who delivered the plenary papers, and 48 those who presented the individual papers, with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. The Forum was also meant to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foundation of IFPS (in Amsterdam on July 30, 1962), one of the topics of the historical panel that took place on the Friday morning. As usual, the Executive Committee (EC) worked the whole day on Tuesday October 18, starting with the report on the organization of the Forum by Miguel Ángel Gonzalez Torres, the financial report by Valerie Angel, and the report on the Section of Individual Members by Jan Johansson and Darius Leskauskas. In the second part of the morning, Marco Conci presented to the EC the application of the Milan Scuola di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica (SPP) to become a member society in its own right, having separated from the Milan Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici (ASP). After a long and articulated discussion the EC decided that a site visit to the new group would take place in the spring of 2023 – with immediate affiliation in the case of a positive outcome. A further prospective affiliation positively discussed was represented by the South Korean group, which was put in touch with the IFPS by the New York colleague Ernesto Mujica. One of the main events of the EC meeting, as well as of the meeting of the Assembly of Delegates taking place on Wednesday October 19, was the change to the editorial board of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, with Gabriele Cassullo (Italy) succeeding Grigoris Maniadakis, who had collaborated with Marco Conci as a coeditor-in-chief since October 2014. The author of this Report started doing this w","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47005024","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":"The multiple dimensions of our contemporary psychoanalytic discourse","authors":"M. Conci","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2133302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2133302","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2019 I published a book with the title Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis, in which I connected the clinical approach of the abovementioned authors and their psychoanalytic perspective to their most important life experiences and to the scientific and interpersonal contexts in which their contributions developed, including the main partners accompanying their professional evolution. I thus tried to demonstrate not only the importance of the history of psychoanalysis for the practicing clinician, but also its relevance as a key to the pluralistic and international character of contemporary psychoanalysis. A pioneer of the field of “comparative psychoanalysis,” the sociologist Edith Kurzweil (1924–2016) showed in her 1989 book The Freudians. A comparative perspective how psychoanalysis differs in the various countries of the world, and how we should take cultural, social, and political factors into consideration, together with the theoretical ones. According to Jay Greenberg and Stephen Mitchell (1983), Roy Schafer (1922–2018) had been the pioneer of the kind of theoretically grounded “comparative psychoanalysis” so well articulated by them in Object relations in psychoanalytic theory. Although I helped Stephen Mitchell (1946–2000) introduce and promote his work in Italy, and still value very much his generous and creative contribution, I ended up appreciating Joseph Sandler’s (1927– 1998) “mixed model” more than a simply relational model like the one Mitchell started formulating in 1988 through Relational concepts in psychoanalysis. An integration. Out of it came an important enrichment of our clinical work, but also an underevaluation of the complexity of psychoanalysis, Mitchell having downplayed several dimensions of it, that is, not only the originality and ongoing value of Freud’s contribution, but also, for example, the importance of empirical research. My book was so well received that it won the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis 2020 Historical Book Prize and was positively reviewed – in English – by Carlo Bonomi (2020), John Foehl (2021), and Giovanni Foresti (2022). Two days before writing this Editorial, on September 28, 2022, the German colleague Herbert Will gave a very interesting paper on the complex structure of psychoanalytic clinical work at the Munich Akademie für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, in which he distinguished the following dimensions: general psychoanalytic theory, theory of technique, and what he called “subjective theory” (Will, 2022). Through the first dimension we learn how our psyche works, and through the second how to treat our patients, with the third one allowing us to understand what we feel and how we can best work with our individual patients. Joseph Sandler was a pioneer of the third dimension through his 1983 article “Reflections on some relations between psychoanalytic concepts and psychoanalytic practice,” in which he introduce","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44655030","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":"Probing the impact of psychoanalytic therapy for bipolar disorders: A scoping review","authors":"A. Stefana, D. D’Imperio, A. Dakanalis, E. Vieta, P. Fusar-Poli, E. Youngstrom","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2022.2097307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2022.2097307","url":null,"abstract":"No systematic review has been conducted to provide an overview of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis on outcomes for bipolar depression and mania. The present study undertakes a scoping review on the effectiveness of psychoanalysis for bipolar disorder (BD), provides a summary of the evidence base, and identifies issues for future research in this area. A thorough search of journal articles in MEDLINE, PEP-Web, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science was carried out to obtain available studies of psychoanalytic treatment for BD published 1990-2021. We searched for either quantitative or single-case studies. Twenty-six single case reports from 21 articles and no quantitative studies met a prior inclusion criteria. Qualitative analysis suggests efficacy and cost-effectiveness but thus far there is no scientific evidence in support of psychoanalysis. Although these pilot findings suggest that psychoanalysis may impact symptoms and global functioning in patients with BD, the underlying evidence is poor and should be confirmed by experimental studies.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47381372","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}