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{"title":"“Being myself as the analyst I have become:” An interview with Jay B. Frankel","authors":"Aleksandar Dimitrijević","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2022.2077435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2022.2077435","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, during the IPA Congress in Boston, Jay Frankel, Gabriele Cassullo, and I started editing a book about Sandor Ferenczi (Dimitrijevic,́ Cassullo, and Frankel, 2018). In the following couple of years, we met regularly online, for the most part once a week, and gathered in Berlin, where Jay gave a lecture at the International Psychoanalytic University, in Florence, in Paris, where we interviewed Judith Dupont (Dimitrijevic,́ in press), in New Jersey, and in Washington D.C., where all three of us presented at a conference about the “Lines of Development” book series. This collaboration – successful despite many challenges – led to a personal friendship and new joint projects (see Frankel, 2020, 2022). I had the privilege of talking to Jay about his interpretations, impressions, and plans, and about his reminiscences and contacts. I felt he had lived at the epicenter of contemporary American psychoanalysis, but I also felt that my image was only fragmentary. When my interview with Professor Michael B. Buchholz was published in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Dimitrijevic, 2021), a detailed conversation about Jay’s contributions, development, and experiences seemed like a most natural continuation. Recordings of our four meetings, held over April and May of 2020, were kindly transcribed by Ms. Gamze Farz, MA, edited by myself, and corrected and approved by Jay Frankel. This text is a slightly condensed version of the transcript, kindly accepted by Dr. Marco Conci and Dr. Grigoris Maniadakis, the Coeditors-in-Chief of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, without significant cuts, as this Bildungsroman deserves.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43849068","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":"When patients probe the analyst: Manifestations of patient testing and its complexity – An in-depth exploration of case examples of extant research","authors":"A. Novak, Jonas Luedemann, S. Andreas","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2075564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2075564","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Patients probe the analyst with the goal of challenging pathogenic adaptations to early experiences. As the core concept of control mastery theory (CMT), testing is contextualized within psychoanalytic theory. The current work examines 29 articles illustrating therapies performed or analyzed using the CMT approach for the occurrence of testing, which takes place through interaction, self-presentation, narratives, or the use of the setting. The various manifestations of testing and their potential meanings are described. An in-depth analysis of selected testing examples is performed to compare tests within patients and across studies. The results show that patients differ in their testing strategies, shift testing strategy during the process of treatment, combine tests, and test multiple conflictual themes within a single test. Therefore, the importance of applying a case-specific approach, based on a thorough understanding of a patient, becomes evident. Recommendations concerning psychoanalytic technique, including the role of interpretation, as illustrated in case vignettes, are introduced.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48158077","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 promotion and affect mobilization in clinical work","authors":"Daniela de Robertis","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2039407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2039407","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The author presents a model of clinical intervention based on patients’ mentalization, or mind reading, that is, the function of the mind to understand the mind. The action of mind reading means a type of thought, mostly not conscious, implicit, often not even encoded in words, that expresses the meaning “I think that you think that I think.” Thoughts about the analyst’s states of mind crowd the minds of patients, taking shape in these questions: “What do you think I have in mind?” and so “How do you plan to act towards me?” If the analyst does not capture and does not disambiguate the doubts, the patient’s perplexity and insecurity can intensify and produce emotions of anxiety, fear, fright, but also anger towards a silent interlocutor. Conversely, the analyst who mentalizes the state of mind of the patient and verbalizes it heteroregulates the patient’s fears and anxiety level. Mentalization and affect regulation are also related to the analyst’s recognition of the patient’s metacognition process. At the conclusion of the theoretical section, a clinical sketch shows examples, and highlights in therapeutic work the abovementioned theoretical issues.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48458496","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":"Reflections on dying patients, hospices, assisted suicide, and euthanasia","authors":"C. Sjödin","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2032332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2032332","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract My parents’ death struggle, my clinical work with dying patients, the euthanasia of Freud, and a fear of dementia form the background to my reflections on dying patients, hospices, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. The change in public opinion has resulted in a displacement from Nazi crimes to the present focus on the right to self-determination. Consequently, a law allowing assisted suicide or euthanasia has been adopted in several locations, such as Oregon in the USA, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, and Canada. The fear of suffering, hopelessness, and inability are strong arguments to allow euthanasia and aided suicide. A compelling case against it is its negative social consequences, the infringement into the private sphere when the sick person and their family must decide if they are willing to accept assisted suicide or euthanasia. Although the “right to death” provides freedom to some, for others it is a forced choice that interferes with the dying process. I conclude by highlighting the palliative model, wherein death is perceived as a part of an individual’s life and as a normal process, although this task is hard for the family to contain, especially when the dying person is in pain and agony. Dying is not merely an individual process. It affects the whole family as well as the future generations’ views on reciprocity and responsibility.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44830560","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 encounter: Conflict and change – Papers from the XXIst IFPS Forum, February 2020, Lisbon","authors":"M. Conci, G. Maniadakis","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2093082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2093082","url":null,"abstract":"The papers we have put together in this issue represent the selection that our Editorial Board made of the many papers presented at the XXIst IFPS Forum held in Lisbon on February 5–8, 2020, about which one of us wrote the report published in No. 2 of Vol. 29 of this journal (Conci, 2020). Writing now, with the pandemics not fully behind us and the war in the Ukraine accompanying our daily life, we can only hope to be lucky enough to be able to meet next October 19–22 in Madrid, for the XXIInd IFPS Forum, organized by the Centro Psicoanalìtico deMadrid under the title “Psychoanalytic Theories and Techniques: Dialogue, Difficulties and Future. 60 Anniversary of the IFPS.” Of the eight papers of this issue, three come from Portugal, three from the USA, Brazil and Italy, and the last two –which were not presented in Lisbon – from Iran and from Israel. One of the best and most appreciated papers given in Lisbon was Sandra Buechler’s paper “King Lear and the challenge of retirement,” dealing as it does with a question that most of us experience as rather embarrassing, problematic, if not wholly impossible to deal with. But Sandra was courageous enough to be able to draw a line and retire from working with patients, on May 31, 2019 – the day before she turned 73. This allowed her to formulate a series of thoughtful considerations on how such a decision impacts our personal identity, and on how we can survive living without the structuring – and reassuring – routine of our analytic work. Of course, Sandra was helped in such a difficult transition by her passion for writing, which allowed her to publish her seventh book, Poetic dialogues, in the fall of 2021 (Buechler, 2021). Her first book, Clinical values: Emotions that guide psychoanalytic treatment (Buechler, 2004), was reviewed by one of us in this journal (Conci, 2006). Sandra Buechler is not only one of the most productive colleagues of the W.A. White Institute of her generation, but also the one who has most actively participated in the life of our Federation since the time in which Gerard Chrzanowski and Buechler’s own analyst, Rose Spiegel, contributed so greatly in linking their society to the IFPS (see Conci, 2021). A similar function has also been played by Jô Gondar, a Brazilian colleague and a member of the Circulo Psicoanalitico de Rio de Janeiro, a member society of the IFPS since 1980; for many years it was represented on the Executive Committee by Edson Lannes – who had trained in the 1960s with Katrin Kemper, a German pioneer of the Brazilian IPA and IFPS psychoanalysis. In her paper “‘To hear with eyes’: Gestures, expressions, rhythms,” the author borrows a Shakespearean expression used by Masud Kahn in The privacy of the self (1974), to show how his eyes could detect inscribed in the body of a patient lying on his couch different things from the ones he was hearing from the patient. Referring also to Sándor Ferenczi’s Clinical diary (Ferenczi, 1988), Jô Gondar shows how important it","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46617784","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":"Sanity and madness within the therapeutic setting: A case study","authors":"Alexandra Medeiros","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2075563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2075563","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses a particular case of sanity and madness within the therapeutic setting as an expression of psychosis. It describes the story of a boy named Pedro who, between the ages of 12 and 16 years, struggled with mental balance – oscillating between lucidity, within a broken mind, and the madness required to stay healthy. The psychotherapeutic path was marked by a set of characters – real and fictional – that revealed his split functioning. In the plots Pedro created, he used the evil characters of any given movie saga in order to express himself. Like a dream, these narratives functioned as metaphors and metonyms, where the condensed forces of evil took over the symptom – which brings us to psychosis – while the good side, represented by an isolated and unprotected figure with which Pedro identified, revealed the displaced material of his unconscious desire. Although the psychotic parts of Pedro’s personality had been rehabilitated and integrated, his mental functioning remained marked by dissociation with reality, linked to the psychotic dysfunctionality. Therefore, even if his psychotic parts were contained and masked by clever humor, they were an indelible trace of his mental life.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44808179","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":", with Sandra Sherman. Psychotherapy and personal change: Two minds in a mirror","authors":"H. Lothane","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2021.1970223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2021.1970223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48462437","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":"Evolution of Freudian psychoanalytic thought in the twentieth-century USA: The influence of the European émigrés","authors":"H. Blum, E. Blum","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1984576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1984576","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper briefly reviews major theoretical and clinical changes in American psychoanalysis since its beginning in the early twentieth century. The immigration of European analysts in the 1930s and 40s was of major significance. Infant development research promoted a shift towards the importance of object relations, reducing the importance of the Oedipus complex. The increasing focus on narcissism and borderline personalities is discussed, as well as the applications to dynamic psychotherapy. Dogma dissipated with increasing latitude in theory and clinical work within “classical” psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49004601","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":"Online psychoanalysis: Interview with Paolo Migone","authors":"Giuseppe Salerno","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1991593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1991593","url":null,"abstract":"Paolo Migone: Psychoanalysis via the Internet is certainly possible, and the theoretical premises are the same as those underlying “normal” psychoanalysis, that is, psychoanalysis not involving the Internet. I have used quotation marks for the adjective “normal” to imply that it is a theoretical error to think that there is a normal psychoanalysis, which is in fact a myth (recalling the myth of the “classical technique,” which exists mostly in books). Psychoanalysis is a general theory that is applied to infinite clinical situations: different settings, different weekly frequencies, groups, couples, families, emergencies, brief therapies, severe diagnoses, and so forth. In each of these cases, psychoanalysis must be adapted to the situation and needs of individual patients, at least according to ego psychology, the important psychoanalytic school, which began as early as the 1930s and spread mainly in the USA in the middle of the twentieth century. To make things clearer, I will give an example: if we, in order to remain “psychoanalysts,” will not modify our so-called “classical” technique with patients who need it to be modified or who cannot tolerate it, paradoxically we cease to be psychoanalysts, or rather we are bad psychoanalysts. The thought that psychoanalysis is just the one referred to as “classical” (outside the Internet, use of the couch, high weekly frequency, etc.) does not mean only impoverishing, but also misunderstanding it and showing a lack of comprehension of the theory of technique. It means using a stereotyped technique, learned in the wrong way. I will say more: to think that online and offline therapy are “different objects” means having a theory of technique that makes us make mistakes even in traditional therapy, that is, therapy not involving the Internet. It also shows a lack of understanding what “communication” is about. It is obvious that an online and an offline therapy are very different, but in the same way that two offline (i.e. “normal”) therapies can be extremely different from each other, and there can be more difference between two offline therapies than between an online therapy and an offline therapy. Thinking that diversity resides only in the communication methods means not knowing what the main variables at play in a therapy are. And it is equally obvious that a patient, for transference reasons (or a therapist, for countertransference reasons), may prefer Internet therapy (some patients may want to defend themself, without realizing it, from the “real” relationship, or rather from the fantasy they have of the real-life relationship, for example being afraid of dependency, etc.), and it would be the therapist’s mistake not to see and not to interpret this defense. However, it is equally obvious that a patient and a therapist can defend themselves from the fantasy they have of Internet therapy, and often this defense is not analyzed precisely because the therapist considers “normal” only a therapy not vi","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47484481","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":"Gender dysphoria – A therapeutic model for working with children, adolescents and young adults","authors":"M. Buchholz","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1999498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1999498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49216001","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}