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{"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":"31 1","pages":"254 - 255"},"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":"32 1","pages":"87 - 92"},"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":"31 1","pages":"249 - 251"},"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":"31 1","pages":"191 - 192"},"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}

{"title":"Sense of self and psychosis, part 1: Identification, differentiation and the body; A theoretical basis for amniotic therapy","authors":"M. Peciccia, Livia Buratta, M. Ardizzi, Alessandro Germani, Giulia Ayala, F. Ferroni, C. Mazzeschi, V. Gallese","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990401","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We will describe in two articles (“Sense of self and psychosis”, 1 and 2) the theoretical basis and the methodology of a new therapeutic group approach called amniotic therapy, which aims to improve the sense of self of psychotic patients. In this first article we explore the role of the surface of the body and its early sensorimotor interactions in the processes of self/other identification and differentiation. We propose that these processes have common origins, the body surface and its interactions, but different destinies, depending on where the body’s surface is projected. When it is projected intrapsychically we have differentiation, and when it is projected externally onto the body’s surface of the other, we have identification. Identification is a reciprocal process, in which the self’s and the other’s surfaces mutually contain each other and co-create a shared field. The neural correlates of identification and differentiation are discussed. The second article, which follows, describes amniotic therapy and explores a single case study.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"226 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42241150","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":"Sense of self and psychosis, part 2: A single case study on amniotic therapy","authors":"M. Peciccia, Alessandro Germani, M. Ardizzi, Livia Buratta, F. Ferroni, C. Mazzeschi, V. Gallese","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990402","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia show an alteration of the sense of self. From a psychodynamic perspective, it has been hypothesized they have disorders of the integration of self/other identification/differentiation processes. From a neuroscientific view some with this diagnosis present dysfunctions in neural correlates of representation of self from other (the implicit sensorimotor-based bodily self), and self united with other. In “Sense of self and psychosis, part 1” we discussed scientific literature offering empirical evidence for the psychodynamic clinical observations that patients with diagnoses of psychoses didn't receive adequate early infancy parental care and sufficient affective-sensorial/tactile interactions. Introducing parental care/cutaneous interactions seemed relevant in the analytic treatment of psychoses, as the pioneers of the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis suggested. From this theoretical basis we developed amniotic therapy, which reproduces the affective-tactile interactions of early infancy, insufficient in cases of psychosis, and aims at integrating the processes of differentiation and identification. We present a single case study of an experimental intervention plan including amniotic therapy. Results showed increases in interoception and global functioning, with significant decreases in positive symptoms suggesting that amniotic therapy contributes to increasing the protective strength of self-boundaries and integration of identification/differentiation processes.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"237 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46674663","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":"Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum, part 2*","authors":"R. Ehrlich","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970225","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"153 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45427416","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":"Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum, part 1","authors":"R. Ehrlich","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970224","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"142 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49076088","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":"Psychoanalysis, society, and politics","authors":"M. Conci, G. Maniadakis","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2090202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2090202","url":null,"abstract":"It should come as no surprise to our readers that we dedicate this issue of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis to the ways in which the field of psychological research founded by Sigmund Freud can help us understand and deal with social and political problems, now that the war in the Ukraine has been going on for more than three months. One of us (M.C.) owes to the book by Andreas Kappeler Kleine Geschichte der Ukraine (Kappeler, 2022) the welcome and necessary knowledge of the complexity of the history and the development of the national identity of the Ukrainian people, a process which has been going on for several centuries, and which reminded him of the similar long process undergone by his own country, Italy. Although Italy had already started having a national literature in the thirteenth century, it was only in 1861 that it became a politically unified country. This happened with the Ukraine only in the summer of 1991, but given its position on the border between the European Union and Russia, as well as the lack of an adequate capacity of dialogue with and containment of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive strategy and plans, we are now confronted with the most terrible war we have had in Europe since the end of World War II. And there is no way yet in sight for how such a war can come to the end. “Psychoanalysis and political economy” by Siegfried Zepf andDietmar Seel (both from Saarbrücken, Germany) is the first article of this issue. We propose it to our readers also in order to remind them of how much its first author – who passed away in October 2021 aged 84 –was genuinely committed to a socially critical psychoanalysis. No wonder that his 2009 article “Consumerism and identity: Some psychoanalytical considerations” has received 2760 views and occupies second position on this journal’s list of Most Read Articles (see Zepf, 2009). One of us (M.C.) originally met Siegfried Zepf in 1990 through the German “Bernfeld-Gruppe,” a group of colleagues committed to developing a critique of “institutionalized psychoanalysis,” as the editor of the book “Wer sich nicht bewegt, der spürt auch seine Fesseln nicht” – Anmerkungen zur gegenwärtigen Lage der Psychoanalyse (Zepf, 1990). It is no wonder that, in the article written together with his colleague and friend Dietmar Seel, Siegfried Zepf focussed on the way in which psychoanalysis can be dealt with from a Marxist point of view, with particular regard for the way in which we have our patients pay us for the work we do with them, and not for the result we are able to obtain – that is, irrespective of whether or not we cure them. The authors’ analysis brings them to conclude that, in psychoanalysis, the suspension of truth value, the tolerance shown towards contradictory concepts, the lack of conceptual criticism, and the exclusion of sociocritical issues seem to be effects of psychoanalysts’ interest in realizing the exchange value of their psychoanalytic treatment and their accompanying lesser i","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45535823","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":"Psychoanalysis and political economy","authors":"S. Zepf, Dietmar Seel","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1977847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1977847","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The authors examine the influence that psychoanalysts’ economic situation has on the current state of psychoanalysis, particularly focusing on the situation in Germany and employing a perspective afforded by Marxian commodity analysis. Their analysis brings them to conclude that, in psychoanalysis, the suspension of truth value, the tolerance shown towards contradictory concepts, the lack of conceptual criticism, and the exclusion of sociocritical issues seem to be effects of psychoanalysts’ interest in realizing the exchange value of their psychoanalytic treatment and their accompanying lesser interest towards its use value.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"3 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45434226","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}