{"title":"The transferable penis and the self representation.","authors":"M H Soll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A group of female patients is described whose self representation includes significant male as well as female aspects, but who are not perverse or borderline. The unconscious fantasy of a transferable penis found in these patients is linked to specific etiologic factors including only intermittently available, unempathic early mothering and a prolonged incestuous post-oedipal father-daughter sexual relationship. Use is made of the concept of differing and conflicting aspects of the self-representation to elucidate the particular nature of these patients' bisexual fantasies, which allowed appropriate sexual gender and role to develop, and yet which, at times, also permitted drive gratification associated with the fantasy of being male and possessing a penis.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"473-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17568437","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":"Studies on hysteria: Dora.","authors":"W W Meissner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reviews the fascinating case material of Freud's \"Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria\" and the subsequent material that has come to light about Dora. The analytic material is reinterpreted in the light of more contemporary analytic perspectives. The difficulties can be considered in terms of the problem of diagnosis, in terms of the dynamics inherent in Dora's personality structure, and finally in terms of the difficulties in the transference-countertransference interaction that played such a significant role in the premature termination of the case. Dora is far from simply a case of hysterical neurosis, but her pathology not only reflects the dynamics of the paranoid process, but also falls within the range of the borderline spectrum of personality disorders that have been described previously (Meissner 1982b.). Moreover, the borderline quality of her psychopathology gave rise to certain transference-countertransference interactions that lend themselves to more adequate formulation in terms of the paranoid process (Meissner 1978b). This gives rise to a variety of theoretical and therapeutic considerations that bear on our understanding of the nature of hysteria and of the psychoanalytic process itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"567-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17567424","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":"An educational-evaluation perspective on the training analysis.","authors":"D Shapiro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"289-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17568427","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 role of the analyst's facial expressions in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy.","authors":"H F Searles","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper, while acknowledging implicitly the importance of transference-distortions in the patient's perceptions of the analyst's countenance, focuses primarily upon the real changes in the latter's facial expressions. The analyst's face has a central role in the phase of therapeutic symbiosis, as well as in subsequent individuation. It is in the realm of the analyst's facial expressions that the borderline patient, for example, can best find a bridge out of autism and into therapeutically symbiotic relatedness with the analyst. During this latter phase, then, each participant's facial expressions \"belong\" as much to the other as to oneself; that is, the expressions of each person are in the realm of transitional phenomena for both of them. The analyst's facial expressions are a highly, and often centrally, significant dimension of both psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy. Illustrative clinical vignettes are presented from work with both patients who use the couch and those who do not.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"47-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17568436","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 use of psychoanalytic theory and technique on the medical ward.","authors":"S Grossman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years an increasing number of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists have entered the field of general hospital psychiatry. Not only do psychoanalytic principles help in understanding the patient and his reaction and interaction, their application in a consultation also has therapeutic benefits. These therapeutic aspects are often not appreciated. This paper demonstrates the value of applying psychoanalytic concepts in consulting on medical patients in the hospital setting and, concurrently, explores some obstacles to the application of these concepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"533-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17567422","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":"Alcohol abuse and superego conflicts.","authors":"B Berggren","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reports the author's experiences with alcohol abusers in their initial or premorbid phase. The emphasis is on their superego conflicts and how these conflicts relate to their alcohol abuse. The adaptational function of their heavy drinking pattern is to neutralize an archaic persecutive superego through an oral-sadistic counterattack. The drinking is an attempt to reach inner structural change, which is successful during the first moments of intoxication, but often backfires when the ego strength is lessened under the influence of alcohol.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"215-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17568425","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":"Developmental issues in borderline personalities.","authors":"D C Levin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"173-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17567636","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 management of countertransference in time-limited psychotherapy: the role of the central issue.","authors":"J Mann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"205-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17567635","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":"Countertransference difficulties in a time-limited psychotherapy.","authors":"M F Hoyt, D Farrell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A dramatic episode of patient-therapist interaction near the conclusion of a brief, time-limited psychotherapy is described with the help of a verbatim transcript. Our understanding of these events is based primarily on an awareness of the therapist's countertransference. The traumatic nature of the event that brought the patient to therapy, his narcissistic and borderline character structure, the therapist's own personal vulnerabilities to feelings of loss and guilt, and the additional difficulty for both therapist and patient of a brief, time-limited psychotherapy were factors contributing to the development of these countertransference disturbances.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"191-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17567634","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":"Levels of mental representation and communicative modes of the bipersonal field.","authors":"L J Brown","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The bipersonal field is an extraordinarily subtle and complex pattern of interaction which has roots in the first weeks of life. The communicative modes described by Langs (1978a,b) are implicitly tied to cognitive functioning, although the relationship between the interpersonal/interactional aspects of the bipersonal field and cognitive development have yet to be explored. A theory of cognitive development is advanced in which close connections are made between early object relationships and various levels of cognitive functioning. The building up of increasingly more sophisticated mental representations is traced, and the slow emergence of mature techniques of thinking is described. Both are intimately tied to the unfolding of object relationships. It is concluded that the communicative modes (Types A,B,C) involve important differences in the nature of the mental representations and the techniques of thinking associated with each.</p>","PeriodicalId":75941,"journal":{"name":"International journal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy","volume":"10 ","pages":"403-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17568433","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}