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: 2024-06-07DOI: 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: 2024-05-30DOI: 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}
{"title":"Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis: New perspectives on race, gender, and sexualityINTERSECTIONALITY AND RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY. Edited by Max Belkin and Cleonie White. London/New York: Routledge, 2020. 232 pp.","authors":"Deborah Choate","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2253698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2253698","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Unless otherwise noted, page numbers are from Belkin M. & White C. (2020). Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. London/New York: Routledge.2 Crenshaw’s piece is the source of critical race theory (CRT), currently so woefully distorted by politicians.3 Bromberg, P. M. (2012). Credo. Psychoanal. Dialogues, 22:273-278, p. 273.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"74 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":"135432442","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":"Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice.","authors":"David Raniere","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2231319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2231319","url":null,"abstract":"Think of Henry Markman’s offering as a musical album with thirteen tracks, and when you read/listen along, you will find this metaphor is no stretch. For one thing, Markman writes explicitly about music as metaphor, jazz in particular, as he elaborates distinct forms of psychoanalytic accompaniment and improvisation in clinical practice. He even goes so far as to recommend for the reader specific pieces of music that illustrate distinct ways a drummer accompanies the soloist. For example, the palpable and energetic presence of Elvin Jones on drums provides John Coltrane with non-impinging “steady rhythmic support”—a pulse—that is “both strong and relaxed” on Coltrane’s Impressions (p. 127). If you find it on your preferred music platform and listen along, you can hear and feel what Markman means. As someone not at all musically versed, I found this and the book as a whole to","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"356 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44546629","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":"Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times","authors":"Henry J. Friedman","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2231316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2231316","url":null,"abstract":"fungi living symbiotically with their roots and the rhizomes of other herbaceous plants, they are able to secretly exchange essential nutrients. Mother trees can send their carbon to understory plants, increasing their chances of survival. The metaphor is illuminating. For survival, an invisible and vast network of communication relies on the foreign elements that are the filaments of mycelia for trees, true intermediaries as words are for humans. We almost see the chains of signifiers—even for us, largely foreign, that is, unconscious—that constitute the meaning that we are, and through which, through moments of at-one-ment or (Virginia Woolf’s) moments of being, we are born to ourselves from our prereflexive selves as subjects. This profound ethical sentiment of humanity as deeply immersed in nature and sharing the fate of all living beings is the gift Moss gives us with his book. Of course, the plague is not just the pandemic, but the plague in Igmar Bergman’s movie The Seventh Seal, a figure of death.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"342 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43703774","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":"From Listening to Overhearing. A Review of Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year","authors":"G. Civitarese","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2230067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2230067","url":null,"abstract":"At the time, I considered it an honor to have the opportunity to review Moss’s book I &You. And the same is true now for his new book Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year, which is just as fascinating as the first. The technique employed to write it is no different, and the author tells us about it in the preface. After each session, he would choose a sentence and extract it one at a time, leaving it where it lay. He would then proceed to link up the sentences and collate them into a daily verse. In this way, day after day, Moss composed 189 poems.","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"333 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46025467","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":"Hatred of Sex","authors":"E. Zickler","doi":"10.1080/00332828.2023.2232236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2023.2232236","url":null,"abstract":"have seen unfold in the United States that are worth considering but is not explanatory. Since Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the Presidency in 2015, the media has bombarded us with Trump stories, including details of a plainly disordered character who, while called by many commentators a narcissist, went far beyond the garden variety narcissistic personality. Such individuals—who are well known to those of us who work as psychoanalysts—are known to be destructive of their wives (or husbands) and children, but they don’t achieve the status and power of Hitler, Stalin, and Trump. The ability of certain individuals to mislead a nation—including Trump’s campaigns, presidency, and public incitement of an insurrection—remains a mystery despite attempts to explain their emergence as leaders of large and powerful countries. Michael J. Diamond is a psychoanalyst who cares deeply about what he has seen happening. In this book, the author’s effort to utilize his psychoanalytic knowledge to increase the reader’s understanding of unconscious factors that may determine why Donald Trump has been partially successful is, in a certain sense, a tour de force. But, in the end, I believe he will have to conclude, as I do, the unconscious cannot substitute for following what continues to happen in plain sight. HENRY J. FRIEDMAN (CAMBRIDGE, MA)","PeriodicalId":46869,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Quarterly","volume":"92 1","pages":"348 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44402272","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}