{"title":"From victim to heroine: children's stories revisited.","authors":"A. Turkel","doi":"10.1521/JAAP.30.1.71.21988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/JAAP.30.1.71.21988","url":null,"abstract":"The need to escape reality and the taste for adventure with the unknown fills a universal need for both adults and children. Fairy tales have a powerful grip on the imagination because they are homespun versions of myths and have passionate intensity without epic grandeur. The happy ending of fairy tales reflects gender stereotyping because the heroine usually does very little except sit, wish, and wait for marriage. She has no control over her destiny and no active involvement in selecting or planning her future. These heroines are really passive victims. Sexism was once rampant in children's books. The Oz books, with their independent, courageous, and active heroine were way ahead of their time. The advent of women's liberation has led to a reappraisal of the female in folk literature. Anthropologists have now discovered stories of admirable women who were strong characters in their own epic dramas.","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"122 1","pages":"71-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77715093","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":"Revisiting Fromm's passions as presaging contemporary views of affect and dissociation.","authors":"Valentina Harrell","doi":"10.1521/JAAP.30.2.277.21950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/JAAP.30.2.277.21950","url":null,"abstract":"Fromm viewed intrapsychic dynamic processes as having their origin in a generalized organic life force that gets transformed into psychic energy called passions. He is acknowledged as one of the most original, creative writers of the mid-20th century whose fertile mind and humanistic sensibilities synthesized the domains of psychoanalysis, social philosophy, and politics. His unyielding belief that the development of the individual psyche is inseparable from its two-way interaction with a lived relational and cultural context presaged the evolution of the relational perspective in psychoanalysis, and his concept of passions foreshadowed contemporary neuroscientific theories of affect and its role in intrapsychic life and self-identity formation. Damasio's theory of emotions is reviewed as a specific example of the current revamping of psychoanalytic theory as bottom-up information processing, that is, the integrating and synthesizing of affective experience and memory (preverbal mentalization) as fueling the creation of a narrative self. Fromm's discussions of dissociation are linked both to Damasio's core self experiences and to Bromberg's conceptualization of psychoanalysis of dissociative experience as a process of \"standing in the spaces.\" And finally, Fromm's descriptions of psychoanalysis as an art are linked to Schon's action-oriented theory of practical knowledge.","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"277-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81337543","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":"Convergence: maturation and integration in the course of a religious conversion.","authors":"Mariam Cohen","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.3.383.21969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.3.383.21969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The process of religious conversion has not been the focus of psychoanalytic understanding. This article examines one conversion narrative, a spiritual autobiography, in which, the author asserts, evidence can be found that the conversion described involved a process of maturation of the subject's internal god-representation, with an integration of maternal and paternal aspects of that internal object representation. Such a process as one aspect of a religious conversion, has implications for psychoanalytic work with religious patients, including the necessity of acknowledging the psychological and deeply believed reality of God for religious patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 3","pages":"383-400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.3.383.21969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22073443","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":"Bion's grid: a tool for transformation.","authors":"Marilyn Charles","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.3.429.21971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.3.429.21971","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author explicates the principles underlying Bion's \"Grid\" in a way that makes them useful for the clinician. The grid represents an attempt to provide a tool by which we might better understand the abstract rules and principles that facilitate understanding in the analytic process. Bion believed that content often obscures meaning unless we can move beyond the ostensible meaning in our attempts to understand the complexity of a statement and the uses to which it is being put. For Bion, the grid itself was not so important as the attempt to increase one's powers of observation, intuition, interpretation, and transformation. A clinical illustration is provided in which the grid provides a useful means for facilitating these endeavours.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 3","pages":"429-45; discussion 447-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.3.429.21971","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22073446","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 object and the dream: Mark Rothko.","authors":"R. Turco","doi":"10.1521/JAAP.30.1.17.21984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/JAAP.30.1.17.21984","url":null,"abstract":"An exploration of unconscious determinants provides useful insights in considering Mark Rothko's creativity and behavioral characteristics. A basic focus is the issue of childhood loss and unresolved grief. The studies of Martha Wolfenstein on preadolescent and childhood parent loss are paramount in considering Rothko the man. Rothko, as a result of early losses, was predisposed to recurrent depressions and bouts of anger which created difficulties in his intimate relationships. Rothko evidenced a lifelong mistrust of male authority figures which may also account for his antipathy toward psychoanalysis. His psychological life was complicated by his experiences of institutionalized anti-Semitism which further diminished his trust in others.","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"8 1","pages":"17-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89724184","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":"Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth: a therapeutic relationship?","authors":"B. Paris","doi":"10.1521/JAAP.30.1.99.21987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/JAAP.30.1.99.21987","url":null,"abstract":"In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot presents Gwendolen as having been rescued by Daniel, and most commentators have agreed, with many comparing the relationship to that of patient and therapist. These commentators have allowed themselves to be unduly influenced by George Eliot's interpretations and judgments and have ignored the concrete depiction of her characters. While we are being told that Gwendolen is undergoing a conversion in which she develops a new consciousness, a new soul, we are being shown a character who is full of rage, self-hatred, and despair. Instead of leading her in the direction of psychological health, Deronda offers her his own defenses and fosters her dependency on him. Despite the upbeat tone of the ending, her prospects after he leaves England seem very bleak.","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"55 1","pages":"99-122; discussion 123-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90638103","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 Mortal Stage of late life.","authors":"David V Forrest, Lucien J Côté","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.3.329.21963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.3.329.21963","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A Mortal Stage of later life may be considered as a subdivision of Erik Erikson's eighth stage of life which he called Mature Age, characterized by issues of integrity versus disgust, despair. Mortality poses the optimal task of Realization (in many positive coping and existential senses) versus Denial (or other non-recognition or emotional paralysis) or Fear (or apprehension or even terror). Premorbid awareness of illness may contribute to or challenge Realization. Literary examples also suggest a reviewing of one's life and works, possible regressions from genitality to anal preoccupations, little social withdrawal, and a compassionate interest in the next generation. In dying the self is not given up, but rather the alternate universe of further interpersonal relations had one lived on.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 3","pages":"329-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.3.329.21963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22073440","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":"Not the same by any other name.","authors":"Shahid Insaf","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.3.463.21965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.3.463.21965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The names of individuals play a significant role in the organization of ego defenses and the consolidation of identity. Names have several conscious and unconscious meanings to patients in treatment. This article postulates that names also represent similar meanings to the therapist or analyst. The desire or reluctance to address a patient by a particular name can serve as an effective measure of the therapist's countertransference. This provides invaluable information about the patient's character structure and interpersonal relationships, which, if used appropriately, can favorably promote treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 3","pages":"463-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.3.463.21965","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22073448","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":"Walter Bonime's legacy: principal contributions.","authors":"Marianne Horney Eckardt","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.4.547.24189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.4.547.24189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Walter Bonime is best known for his influential book, The Clinical Use of Dreams, published in 1962. Though Bonime embraced a neo-Freudian orientation, The Clinical Use of Dreams is remarkable for an absence of theoretical discussions, emphasizing instead a detailed practical approach, aided by illustrative vignettes. His particular emphases are on collaboration in the discovery of meaning and the importance of recognizing feeling representations in dreams. Further writings focussed on character disorders with depressive and paranoid symptomatology, vividly describing the typical underlying neurotic character structures. An outstanding article, co-authored with his wife Florence Bonime, criticizes the usual obscurity of psychoanalytic writings and suggests that conceptual abstractions be well balanced by clinical illustrations. Bonime's style is an exemplary model for such balanced writings.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 4","pages":"547-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.4.547.24189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22254093","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":"\"Speak to me as to thy thinkings\" commentary on 'Interpersonal psychoanalysis' radical façade\" by Irwin Hirsch.","authors":"Philip M Bromberg","doi":"10.1521/jaap.30.4.605.24195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/jaap.30.4.605.24195","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article has two purposes. First, a rebuttal to those writers, including Irwin Hirsch, who criticize the current emphasis by relational analysts on the value of affective openness and affective honesty, particularly with regard to their use of clinical vignettes that vividly portray the analyst's use of self-revelation--as if these illustrations were revealing an endorsement of a naive and mindless invasion of the patient's psyche. The second, and perhaps more important purpose, is to illuminate something I feel is obscured by Hirsch's framing the topic of the analyst's \"spontaneity\" in the context of analytic politics--that an analyst's self-revelation in language is increasingly understood to be not simply \"allowable,\" but a necessary part of the clinical process. Language does not make it less spontaneous nor part of what Hirsch calls a \"standardized technique.\" Its most powerful therapeutic contribution is in facilitating linguistic symbolization of dissociated, enacted, subsymbolic experience that is immune to self-reflective cognition, immune to internal conflict, and thereby unavailable to interpretation until it becomes relationally accessible to language and thought. Both neuroscience and cognitive research support the need for a revised theory of therapeutic action consistent with the growing recognition of the human mind as a nonlinear, self-organizing dynamic system-a system in which normal maturation as well as therapeutic repair depends, developmentally, on an ineffable coming together of two minds in an unpredictable way. From this vantage point, the analyst's self-revelation contributes to the coconstruction of an alive intersubjective space through an ongoing process of engagement between two subjectivities, making the analyst's subjective openness as potentially negotiable as any other aspect of the patient/analyst relationship, rather than an unrepairable \"intrusion\" into a self-contained psyche.</p>","PeriodicalId":76662,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 4","pages":"605-20; discussion 621-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1521/jaap.30.4.605.24195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22255682","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}