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{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"title":"One life heals another: Beginnings, maturity, outcomes of a vocation","authors":"G. Maniadakis","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2063583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2063583","url":null,"abstract":"must run twice as fast as that” (Carroll, 1865; reprint 1993, p. 79). On the other hand, it is clear in psychoanalysis there is little consensus: when discussing analytic techniques Charles Brenner wrote: “All are agreed that an analyst listens while the patient talks and then intervenes at what is considered to be an appropriate time, but there agreement ends” (Brenner, 2007, p. 49). However, there are also some surprises. Stefana makes a continuous and constant crosslink between the theoretical positions of the various scholars. This allows the reader to “fly” from one continent to another, following the clinical and theoretical manifestations of the concept of countertransference. Thus we can appreciate authors who remain adherent to the clinic and the therapeutic encounter with the patient, and others who slide towards theories that can appear decidedly abstract. In fact, by reading these pages over and over, new things can be found. Sometimes we pause to reflect on a sentence; other times we are induced to explore other books and correspondence. Sometimes, the reader can take notes to follow up their curiosity of wanting to know more: for example, to gain more knowledge on the Scottish psychoanalyst Denis V. Carpy, or on Otto Gross’s (mutual) analysis with Jung. Stefana closes his work with a chapter called “Some non-conclusive considerations”. Wisely, he writes:","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44859949","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":"Hezbollah: Lebanon’s identified patient?","authors":"Hana Salaam Abdel‐Malek","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.2021284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.2021284","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, I interpret Hezbollah’s birth and role in Lebanon’s sociopolitical life from a group and family psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, I examine whether Hezbollah, as one of Lebanon’s “children,” can be seen as the “designated patient” and “symptom” of its large family, nation-state “incestual” dynamics and complicated separation and individuation process. As a designated patient, Hezbollah performs the double-sided function of gluing its fragmented nation-state together while carrying the weight of being its breaking force. In this logic, Hezbollah’s paradoxical role in the Lebanese nation-state family would be similar to that of a “scapegoat/Messiah,” who carries both the family’s incestual dynamics and internal tensions and its hope for a solid and cohesive nation-state identity. To build a cohesive nation-state identity, Hezbollah’s ideology acts as a prosthesis for Lebanon’s narcissistic fragility, which replenishes the narcissistic hemorrhage of its perforated bodily and psychic envelopes. I also reflect on whether a national mediation process informed by a group psychoanalytic approach could help Lebanon constitute a more functional ego-nation-state and thus renounce the need for a designated patient. Hezbollah would be better capable of giving up its pathological ideological position.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238142","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":"Unresolved shadows: German encounters in the consulting room","authors":"Stefanie Sedlacek","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2040745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2040745","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The reunification of Germany took place in 1990. As an analyst brought up in the former West Germany, but practicing in Berlin, I have observed over and over again that patients who come from what used to be East Germany (German Democratic Republic) – even those born after 1990 – have a strong need to distinguish between East Germans and West Germans. In their minds, Germany seems still to be a divided country. A split identity appears to have been internalized, producing “West German” and “East German” racists who despise, in the “other” kind of German, a devalued aspect of what being German means. I have tried for many years to understand the hidden meanings of this defensive maneuver for the analytic couple, and beyond this for the relation between the East and West German societies. Here I discuss these unresolved shadows in German identity. Analyses in Germany may be dominated by the splits they provoke, which interfere with patients’ capacities to think. Patients may relate instead to a “German” object that is impersonal, nonempathic, and rejects the idea of an independent internal world. The defensive use of this object in the transference has to be continually worked through in the analysis.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42480199","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 riddle of time and space","authors":"A. Pajoohandeh","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1957146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1957146","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Time is the most important feature or fundamental describer of normal human experience and is also the most eminent forgotten element of psychoanalysis. Freud believes that the unconscious is timeless and believes that it perceives any given moment as new and immaculate. He makes very little effort to illustrate the origin of time; however, he points to the function of the Pcpt-Cs as the key to this riddle. After him, fewer psychoanalysts can be found who have systemically researched this subject, except for André Green, Hartocolles, Arlow, and Sabbadini. In this paper, I have tried to illustrate how the sense of time is related to libidinal cathexis. I have displayed, through some pathological situations such as melancholy, mania, and schizophrenia, and a clinical vignette, that the more ego invests libido in the objects, the faster we sense the passage of time and the more it withdraws libido from the objects into itself, the slower time passes. Finally, using my previous viewpoint about transitional time objects and phenomena, I have presented some ideas about an object relation account of the origin of the sense of time.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47907363","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}