Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2369519
Steven H Cooper
{"title":"Playing, Paradox, and Analytic Activity Between Knowing and Being.","authors":"Steven H Cooper","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2369519","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2369519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author explores some ways that we help patients to hold paradoxical realities intrinsic to transference and play in analytic work. He suggests that Winnicott's guardianship of the setting for the emergence of playing raises questions about the role of neutrality in an ontological analysis. The author tries to demonstrate some ways that the work of helping patients to hold paradox in play overlaps with a concept that he has earlier referred to as an activity of neutrality. He explores how in the analytic process, understanding and being are two dimensions of the analytic process that work in concert with each other. Often the analyst works quietly in spaces between epistemological and ontological approaches in the holding of paradox.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"431-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2373418
Lien-Chung Wei
{"title":"RESPONSE TO THE BOOK REVIEW OF \"HISTORY FLOWS THROUGH US: GERMANY, THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY.\" By Tyger Latham. <i>Psychoanal Q.,</i> 92:543-549.","authors":"Lien-Chung Wei","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373418","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373418","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"555-556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2373972
Lawrence J Brown
{"title":"Bion's <i>Transformations</i> and Clinical Practice.","authors":"Lawrence J Brown","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373972","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2373972","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wilfred Bion's contributions to psychoanalysis are numerous: his early work on the psychology of groups that grew out of his experiences in the first World War; theories and work on the treatment of psychosis with Melanie Klein and later psychoanalysis with her; and the beginning of his own theoretical and clinical ideas, which nurtured analytic thinking and treatment approaches beginning in the mid-1960's followed by his relocation to the United States (1967). Bion's thinking can be deceptively simple, such as his statement that his third book, <i>Transformations</i> (1965), considered by many as exceptionally dense, is about \"the communication of both patient and analyst about an emotional experience\" (p. 29).</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"453-471"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2345804
Mounir Samy
{"title":"Tran in April: The Analysis of A Transgender Adolescent With Notes on the Metapsychology of Gender Transition.","authors":"Mounir Samy","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345804","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this article is twofold: firstly, to describe the seven-year analytic treatment of a TG adolescent (F \"April\" to M \"Tran\") and, secondly, based on the clinical observations, to propose a reflection on the intrapsychic events linked to gender transition. We could witness during this analysis that the dissonant anatomical sex, which is at the heart of the gender dysphoria, resists mentalization and consequently its psychological integration. The psychic events of transition, understood here on the model of a mourning process, could denote the various strategies necessary to the TG individual to negotiate the obstacle of mentalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 2","pages":"273-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141285004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2398590
Donnel B Stern
{"title":"Beginning the Treatment on a Personal Note: Creating Emotional Connection.","authors":"Donnel B Stern","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2398590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2398590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalysis reflects the minds of its creators and is an ethical practice in the sense that the theories with which we psychoanalysts identify are those that reflect what is most important in life to each of us. I present autobiographical material that points to the personal sources, even earlier than my psychoanalytic training, of my conviction that the creation of emotional connection between two actual persons lies at the heart of psychoanalysis and is the key element in the beginning of psychoanalytic treatment. I argue that the beginning of an interpersonal/relational treatment has more continuity with the beginning of non-psychoanalytic relationships than does the beginning of treatment carried out by analysts from other schools. I present what I believe are the reasons for this difference and offer comparisons and contrasts of these ways of establishing a psychoanalytic situation. The article ends with a brief clinical illustration.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 4","pages":"647-674"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2403420
Rosemary H Balsam
{"title":"Thoughts on the Beginnings of Psychoanalyses.","authors":"Rosemary H Balsam","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2403420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2403420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Musing on the topic of initiating analyses, I began asking myself, what do we experience and what do we mean when we commonly say \"an analysis unfolds\"? Hans Loewald understood the rhythms of psychic development as <i>coming into being</i>, and that an analysis (when it works) also seems to follow that pattern. This paper will focus on appreciating <i>the new within the old</i> in the analytic process as a way to illustrate narrative and behavioral themes in the analytic dialogue. It will explore how these themes relate to the creativity of analytic unfolding from an initial matrix of psychically overdetermined uncertainties. Analyst, supervisor, and patient can all notice and experience shifts of new forms intermingling with the old. This trope will be clinically expanded and examined (1) with materials from a candidate's first analytic case, (2) with a vignette from a seasoned analyst's beginning case; and (3) a Covid-era beginning treatment. A clinical footnote (dubbed by the author's supervisees \"The Balsam Sign\") describes a nonverbal mime in the office of a new development occurring within the familiar verbal communication, which may signal a patient's readiness to accept a recommendation to begin an analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"93 4","pages":"675-699"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2345785
Bernd Nissen
{"title":"Some Brief Reflections on \"Time\" from a Psychoanalytical Perspective.","authors":"Bernd Nissen","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345785","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2345785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An attempt is made to encircle time and the times psychoanalytically. They are understood as the result of the interplay of different psychic systems: Timelessness of the Ucs system (psychic reality), actual time in the Pcpt-Cs (perceptual reality), and vectorial-linear time in the Cs/Pcs systems (reality principle). Time shows itself in the moment of presence, but it can only show itself if there is a temporal antecedent. At the same time, time and space are intertwined, so that the past is initially the place where something happened. However, the interplay of the mental systems with time and space can only develop in the object relationship. A short clinical example of an autistoid perversion illustrates this dynamic.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"249-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141176542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychoanalytic QuarterlyPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130
Richard M Billow
{"title":"Kaës' Internal Groups and Actual Groups: A Relational Perspective.","authors":"Richard M Billow","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00332828.2024.2376130","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rene Kaës (2007), an influential French psychoanalyst relatively unknown to English-speaking readers, extends the field of psychoanalytic investigation and practice to groups. Building on Klein, Anzeiu, Bion, and Lacan, Kaës presents a dual-axes theory in which early oedipal and <i>sibling</i> complexes structure unconscious dynamics of <i>internal groups</i>. According to Kaës, analytic group psychotherapy provides access to the phantasies, affects, and action tendencies contained within internal groups that would be otherwise inaccessible. While a few reference articles have appeared in the English literature, Kaës' bold assertions, core concepts, and praxis have not been subject to critical evaluation. I introduce Kaës' main ideas, demonstrate their influence on my group work, and by comparing two case examples, from his practice and mine, articulate our differences, some of which arise from different conceptions of and approaches to <i>intersubjectivity</i>. The discussion continues in the final section which briefly considers the nature of psychoanalytic learning and how we may employ the therapeutic group to reach this goal.</p>","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"473-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141749190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History Flows Through Us: Germany, The Holocaust, and the Importance of EmpathyHISTORY FLOWS THROUGH US: GERMANY, THE HOLOCAUST, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY. Edited by RogerFrie. New York: Routledge, 2018. 194 pp.","authors":"Tyger Latham","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2253090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2253090","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Eisenhower, D. D. (1945). Diplomatic message to George C. Marshall, April 15, 1945. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes2 See, for example: Prince, R. (2009). Psychoanalysis traumatized: the legacy of the Holocaust. Am. J. Psychoanal., 69:179-194; Kuriloff, E. (2014). Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich. New York: Routledge (hereafter referred to as CP<R); Aron, L. & Starr, K. (2013). A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.3 Strozier, C. B. (2001). Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.4 CP<R, p. 396.5 Kohut, H. (1979). “The two analyses of Mr. Z.” Int. J. Psychoanal., 60:3-27.6 Ibid., p. 7.7 Ibid.8 Kohut, H. (1978). Self psychology and the sciences of man. In Self Psychology and the Humanities: Reflections on a New Psychoanalytic Approach, ed. C. B. Strozier. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1980, pp. 73-94.9 Ibid., p. 6.10 Ibid.11 Ibid.12 Faulkner, W. (1951). Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, p. 73.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"66 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135474599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}