{"title":"The \"Fact of the Matter\": A Model for Working with Activated Internal Object Relations in Psychodynamic Couple Therapy.","authors":"Barry L Stern","doi":"10.1177/00030651241257525","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00030651241257525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extensive clinical scholarship has described the application of object-relational principles, particularly the operation of projective identification, to psychodynamic psychotherapy with couples. The author explores the way in which a more complete depiction of projective processes, one that incorporates each partner's intrapersonal management of multiple internal object relations, interacting interpersonally in the couple therapy process, can explain the escalating cycles of conflict between couples that are elaborated in the family-systems literature, and be helpful in understanding the object-relational substrate of chronic conflict in couples more generally. A description of how to map each partner's internal object world through the identification of these cycles in the early couple therapy process is elaborated in a theoretical model and illustrated with case material.</p>","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"185-215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761631","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 the Editor.","authors":"Anne Adelman","doi":"10.1177/00030651251325529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251325529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251325529"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664832","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":"Representation and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis: A Semiotic Perspective","authors":"Bonnie E. Litowitz","doi":"10.1177/00030651251315833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251315833","url":null,"abstract":"Psychoanalytic understanding depends on interpretations of evidence from speech and behaviors within clinical encounters. A clinician’s particular theoretical perspective orients them to favor one interpretation over another. Yet, this continuous processing of evidence often proceeds without a careful examination of the underlying basic concept: the representation being interpreted. This essay is an application of Charles Sanders Peirce’s theory of semiosis, which articulates types of representation and their implications for interpretation. A more nuanced understanding of aspects of representation and their use for specific purposes could generate greater consensus in psychoanalytic interpretations and their uses for clinical diagnosis or treatment—as Freud originally envisioned but lacked a semiotic theory to describe.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143631478","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":"Earthquakes In The Analytic Field: A Post-Bionian View of Negative Therapeutic Reaction.","authors":"Caron Harrang","doi":"10.1177/00030651251319687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251319687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines Negative Therapeutic Reaction (NTR) as proposed by Freud and extended by Kleinian and North American analysts before reinterpreting this well-known phenomenon through the lens of post-Bionian field theory. Employing Bion's concept of the obstructive object, the author suggests that NTR is characterized by a recognizable phenomenological sequence including impairment of the analyst's alpha function. When, as advocated by post-Bionian field theory, these reactions are understood as co-generated by the analytic group-of-two a more collaborative atmosphere develops in the analytic field. Just as pressure within the Earth produces movement of tectonic plates resulting in earthquakes of varying intensity, the author finds it metaphorical to consider NTR an emotional \"earthquake\" that can erupt following increasing intimacy in the analytic relationship. Clinical material illustrates how the analysand's experience changes depending on how the analyst listens to transformations occurring in the analytic field. In one case, the analyst employs a \"you/me\" mode of listening which hinders receptivity to communication via projective identification making NTR the dispatch of last resort. In a second, the analyst adopts a \"we/us\" mode of listening enabling her to employ NTR to restore a co-dreaming function as terra firma of the analytic relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251319687"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143543719","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":"Person Schemas and Emotion","authors":"Mardi Horowitz, Bram Fridhandler, Charles Stinson","doi":"10.1177/000306519103901s01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/000306519103901s01","url":null,"abstract":"A relational theory of emotion allows one to understand complex feelings toward and about self and others. By use of state theory, schemas theory, and control process theory, emotionality can be understood in terms of sequences of experienced and expressed affects, actions, and internal thoughts, reactions, and reappraisals. This paper presents a relational theory that includes unconscious processes that anticipate conscious feelings and regulate affect expression in thought or action. A case example of pathological grief provides a concrete illustration of what is meant at each level of theoretical discussion.","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143546437","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":"Dancing on the Edge: Vulnerability, Shame, Dissociation, and Authenticity","authors":"Marie Saba Veile","doi":"10.1177/00030651251317712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251317712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"50 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143538455","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":"Why I Write: Surprise.","authors":"Steven Luria Ablon","doi":"10.1177/00030651251321468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251321468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251321468"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524850","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":"Book Review: In Leaps and Bounds: Psychic Development and its Facilitation in Treatment","authors":"Andrew Bennett Klafter","doi":"10.1177/00030651251321471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251321471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506797","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":"Book Review: Uneasy Listening: Notes on Hearing and Being Heard","authors":"Edie Hitchcock","doi":"10.1177/00030651251317622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251317622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506796","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":"Why I Write: I Write to Bring My Dreams to Life.","authors":"Charles P Fisher","doi":"10.1177/00030651251317601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251317601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":" ","pages":"30651251317601"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494040","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}