International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies最新文献

{"title":"Introduction to second special issue: Psychodynamic interventions in community mental health: We have come full circle!","authors":"Ghislaine Boulanger, Larry M. Rosenberg","doi":"10.1002/aps.1851","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 4","pages":"537-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512610","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":"Looking back into the future of psychoanalysis: A second chance","authors":"Juan Pablo Jiménez","doi":"10.1002/aps.1854","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1854","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the twentieth century took place a “battle of paradigms” involving all disciplines that inform Psychiatry and Psychology. Basically, the dispute was about the respective contribution of science and hermeneutics in disciplinary paradigms. Psychoanalysis has not been absent from this battle; it is still debated whether psychoanalysis should be considered a scientific discipline or a hermeneutic discipline. In this paper, the author reviews his 40-year career as a university professor of psychiatry and as a psychoanalyst, during which he has been a committed observer and active participant of psychoanalytic and psychiatric disputes. He reflects on how he lived this gap in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, and how he sees the future of Psychoanalysis under the light of new emerging epistemological frameworks.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 4","pages":"540-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512612","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 conspiracy narrative “The Big Lie”—Psychoanalytical considerations on the development of susceptibility to an “alternative reality”","authors":"Karin Johanna Zienert-Eilts","doi":"10.1002/aps.1845","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1845","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the narrative “The Big Lie,” which is placed in the socio-political context, and based on data gathered from social media, clinical material, interviews and documentaries, the author examines from a psychoanalytic perspective the effective power and dynamics of conspiracy narratives that create an “alternative reality” with “conviction capsules,” using lies and distortions of reality consciously employed as means of agitation on the breeding ground of unconscious relational and regression processes. To sketch the emergence and development of this willingness, the author combines the explanations of Wilfred Bion, Susan Isaacs and Herbert Rosenfeld and develops the <i>hypothesis</i>, including the concept of “perverted containing,” that due to unsuccessful containing processes in the earliest relationship experiences, defensively inflexible, sealed “conviction capsules” develop, permeated by fears of confusion and annihilation, by hatred as well as phantasies of powerlessness and superiority. Underlying these, experienced as existentially threatening, are panic about change and excessive identification with a hard, alleged omnipotent object, linked to an unconscious longing for symbiosis with a “savior”—a conglomerate that breeds susceptibility to conspiracy narratives and totalitarian, destructive populist leaders. As one example, the destructive-symbiotic relationship dynamic between Donald Trump and his supporters is outlined with the escalation of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341805","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":"Existential issues in the fictional writing of haruki murakami","authors":"David Potik","doi":"10.1002/aps.1844","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1844","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existential analyses of Murakami's fiction have dealt mostly with identity issues during adolescence and adulthood. This article presents a different existential conceptualization by examining how Yalom's four ultimate life concerns—isolation, meaninglessness, freedom, and death ─ are embodied in the life of some of Haruki Murakami's fictional protagonists. In this work, I will also bring standard diagnostic nomenclature and psychoanalytic conceptualizations into dialog with the existential tradition, by demonstrating how certain mental conditions, which are considered by clinicians as forms of psychopathology, can also be interpreted as modes of existence in an alienated reality, and as non-conformity.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1844","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Bulgaria on three seas!”: An example of regression as a defense mechanism experienced by a large-group in a response to its national inferiority complex","authors":"Yana Nikolova","doi":"10.1002/aps.1842","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1842","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“Bulgaria on three seas” is a commonly used phrase in Bulgaria. It is used on national celebration days, around government election days, in populist campaigns, on TV shows, on social media, at folkloric concerts and gatherings and in simple everyday conversations. The phrase signifies a specific golden century of Bulgarian history characterized by the fact that Bulgaria reaches the Black, White and Adriatic seas. Today, the phrase is regularly used by Bulgarians when they talk about their country. This glorious time is also used as part of the political and public rhetoric where ideology has nationalistic character. It is present during political public debates about the country's reactions to both its past and its future. The phrase “Bulgaria on three seas” lifts the national spirit during moments of struggle. And all that raises questions about why Bulgarians constantly refer to this part of their history and what this regressive behavior demonstrates. This article aims to provide a psychological explanation, combining the concepts of regression (going back to the past), denial of the present and national inferiority complex (perceived helplessness and weakness) in order to analyze how a nation could respond to its own feelings of national group inferiority. It explains how regression is a response to one's own feelings of inferiority and it contributes to the studies of large-group psychology established by Vamik Volkan by offering an alternative explanation. The work demonstrates that regression is the Bulgarian way of dealing with its own inferiority complexes when in denial about what is happening in the present. This takes place when group identity (or an aspect of it) is questioned. The article also provides a pathway to further exploration of how other nations deal with similar experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136130873","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 myth of gender neutrality in family court: A clinician's perspective on determinations of “the best interest of the child”","authors":"Stephanie Brandt","doi":"10.1002/aps.1838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1838","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Misogyny is a universal prejudice against women manifest in all areas of society. To interrogate the nature of this prejudice, the author uses the family court system as her focus. The myth of gender neutrality in family court is pervasive. Current laws are framed around the assumption that both parents are on a level playing field. The reality is that our legal system is biased against mothers. This often reveals itself in the way courts make determinations of “the best interests of the child”. Family court is a microcosm of societal attitudes about parents, especially mothers, and related beliefs about what protects children. A brief review of family law and the “best interest” standard follows as well as a review of what we know and do not know about what is protective for children. The author reviews the problems inherent in family law and mental health training and practice—forensic and clinical. Although mandated to protect children, family court decisions sometimes have the opposite impact, and at times, even endangering the most protective parent and the child. This occurs mainly by devaluing the caretaking role while requiring the more responsible parent to facilitate the other parent's relationship with the child—regardless of the impact on her and the child. There are many reasons for this, but the basic one is the misogyny built into this system. This essay describes how social science research, psychological theory, and developmental principles are misused by both the legal and mental health professions to that end.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 3","pages":"403-434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50151512","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":"Women's rights and child abductions under the Hague Convention","authors":"Valentina Shaknes,&nbsp;Justine Stringer,&nbsp;Stephanie Brandt","doi":"10.1002/aps.1832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1832","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is a multinational treaty designed to protect children internationally from the harmful effects of parental abduction. The Convention requires a mandatory return of a child who was wrongfully removed or retained outside the country of her habitual residence unless a narrow defense preventing return can be proven. When drafted, it was assumed that most abductors would be non-custodial parents disappointed by an adverse custody decision in the home country. It is now clear that women have been disproportionately affected because in many, if not most, U.S. cases, the respondents, that is, the parents accused of the abduction, are the children's primary caregivers. When the child's home country is not willing or capable of protecting the mother and the child, they are forced to flee from often near-lethal danger. Therefore, many cases brought under the Hague Convention involve severe domestic violence. The Hague Convention allows courts to deny the return if it would expose the child to a “<i>grave risk of physical or psychological harm</i>.” Nonetheless, a limited judicial understanding of domestic violence, coupled with societal gender biases, has impeded the application of this defense. Several recent developments discussed in this essay reflect a growing understanding of the lasting traumatic impact of domestic violence on these child victims.</p>","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 3","pages":"495-506"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50132076","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":"Brief introduction to part 2 of the “Hollywood Movie”","authors":"Thomas Wolman","doi":"10.1002/aps.1840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 3","pages":"390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50129227","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":"Editor's note","authors":"Nadia Ramzy","doi":"10.1002/aps.1843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1843","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"20 3","pages":"327-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117305","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":"Guilt and the arc of the moral universe","authors":"Neal Spira","doi":"10.1002/aps.1841","DOIUrl":"10.1002/aps.1841","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In May 2020, in the midst of our Covid plague, as I sheltered in place in front of my television screen, I observed the televised murder of a black man by a white policeman charged with serving and protecting the public. I could not believe what I was seeing with my own eyes. Of course, I had been cognizant of the injustices that seemed intrinsic to the status quo, but in my day to day existence I tended to dismiss them with a “yes, but…” Yet something in the experience of watching George Floyd being murdered by “the law” on national television broke through, and left me with an “Oh my God, what have we done” reaction to not only what we were doing to African Americans, but what the “American we” had done to the native Americans who had lived here for thousands of years before us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over the past few years the word “woke” has achieved currency as an awareness of a crack in the American myth of liberty and justice for all and the recognition that our country was built on a foundation of racism that remains embedded in our structure. Of late, the term has become invested (some might say infected) with the intense affects stirred up by the culture wars that characterize contemporary American life. As a psychoanalyst, I love the term. The idea of achieving awareness of something that had heretofore been out of reach reminds me of another word, insight, that's been part of our psychoanalytic culture from its earliest days. Insight can help us make sense of our inner lives and give shape to the way we live them. Similarly, “wokeness” can help us make sense of our history and holds the potential to shape it according to what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” Of course that requires us to face our demons, the painful truth of our origins as perpetrators of slavery and genocide, and the ways in which we perpetuate racial “othering” in our society. It's a perfect word to describe the experience I had watching the horror of the George Floyd murder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The “I” who speaks through this paper is a Jewish American male born in the post World War 2 baby boom, looking backwards and forward at the universe with a sense of heightened awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For me, the most painful aspect of this awakening has been the guilt that comes with recognizing the degree to which I've benefitted from a status quo that pulls like an undertow, away from the pole of justice toward the other side of the moral universe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I first encountered the line “the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality,” (attributed to Dante, but actually a paraphrase from the mouth of John F. Kennedy) I thought that “crisis” referred to external events. But now I began to think of “moral crisis” as a state of mind. It's an awareness of the gap between who one is and who one aspires to be. In much of our day to day life, this gap is out of our awareness. Otherwise, it would be hard to go on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that s","PeriodicalId":43634,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aps.1841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79291467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}