H. Shmuel Erlich beleuchtet die fließende Grenze zwischen innerer und äußerer Realität und beschr... more H. Shmuel Erlich beleuchtet die fließende Grenze zwischen innerer und äußerer Realität und beschreibt die Positionierung des Psychoanalytikers/der Psychoanalytikerin an ebendieser Grenze. In den 15 hier erstmals auf Deutsch erschienenen Aufsätzen widmet sich der Autor einem breiten Themenspektrum: Er betrachtet unter anderem die analytische Ausbildung und die Identität des Analytikers oder der Analytikerin, reflektiert die Problematik von Paranoia und Regression in Gruppen und setzt sich mit der analytischen Untersuchung terroristischer Gewalt auseinander. Erlich macht deutlich, dass durch das Instrumentarium der Psychoanalyse ein tieferes Verständnis politischer Prozesse und sozialer Realität ermöglicht wird, das sowohl Individuen als auch der Gesellschaft insgesamt zugutekommen kann.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World, 2018
... The significance of this definition is that it eschews some of the motives frequently attribu... more ... The significance of this definition is that it eschews some of the motives frequently attributed to ... a mystery: how is this social dynamic explicable in terms of indi-vidual motivation and action ... Many (though not all) suicide bombers are youths, ranging in age from the late teens to ...
Phantasie und Realität in der Spätadoleszenz, 1993
Anfangen mochte ich mit einem Zitat von Winnicott; er sagt ungefahr folgendes: „Erwachsenwerden b... more Anfangen mochte ich mit einem Zitat von Winnicott; er sagt ungefahr folgendes: „Erwachsenwerden bedeutet, Elternstelle einnehmen — nicht mehr und nicht weniger. In der unbewusten Phantasie ist Erwachsenwerden im Grunde ein aggressives Handeln. Und das Kind ist kein kleines Kind mehr“1.
The chapters in this volume by behaviorally oriented therapists highlight some of the primary dif... more The chapters in this volume by behaviorally oriented therapists highlight some of the primary differences between our conception of therapy and theirs. The primary image of the behaviorally oriented therapist that emerges is that of teacher, coach, detective, researcher, and scientist. The task for patients (or clients) is to learn specific techniques that will supposedly enable them to solve problems and more effectively cope with disrupted aspects of their lives as they are expressed primarily in a specific, focused symptom formation. The therapeutic techniques are drawn from procedures frequently used by teachers to establish effective learning (lesson plans, homework assignments), by coaches to encourage greater commitment, or by scientists (or detectives) in the search for hypotheses and for experimental procedures that will either confirm, disconfirm, or lead to the refinement of the hypotheses. According to Turkat and Meyer, for example, “the clinician performs actual clinical experiments for isolating the relevant independent and dependent variables across cognitive, autonomic, motoric, and environmental modalities.” Techniques are selected on a purely “pragmatic” basis, primarily in terms of whether they will be effective in reducing the specific, distressing, and troublesome symptom. In contrast, we believe that the basic mutative factor in therapy is the patient’s experience of himself and of the therapist within the context of the therapeutic relationship.
The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences, 1995
A wide variety of conceptualizations exists to account for the facilitation of change in psychoth... more A wide variety of conceptualizations exists to account for the facilitation of change in psychotherapy. These are usually related to advances in psychopathological and/or developmental formulations. The approach to the subject usually follows causal logic, in the spirit of the medical model. The present paper argues that although causal factors operate in psychotherapeutic practice, alongside them there is a class of non-causal factors whose impact and contribution to therapeutic progress should not be underestimated. The paradoxical effect of these factors may be better understood if we examine those features that pertain not to focal "psychotherapeutic action," but to what enables it, namely to the background factors inherent in the psychotherapeutic situation. Of these, abstinence and constancy are two factors singled out for discussion. With the help of clinical vignettes, it is illustrated how these two controversial psychotherapeutic tenets contribute decisively to t...
H. Shmuel Erlich beleuchtet die fließende Grenze zwischen innerer und äußerer Realität und beschr... more H. Shmuel Erlich beleuchtet die fließende Grenze zwischen innerer und äußerer Realität und beschreibt die Positionierung des Psychoanalytikers/der Psychoanalytikerin an ebendieser Grenze. In den 15 hier erstmals auf Deutsch erschienenen Aufsätzen widmet sich der Autor einem breiten Themenspektrum: Er betrachtet unter anderem die analytische Ausbildung und die Identität des Analytikers oder der Analytikerin, reflektiert die Problematik von Paranoia und Regression in Gruppen und setzt sich mit der analytischen Untersuchung terroristischer Gewalt auseinander. Erlich macht deutlich, dass durch das Instrumentarium der Psychoanalyse ein tieferes Verständnis politischer Prozesse und sozialer Realität ermöglicht wird, das sowohl Individuen als auch der Gesellschaft insgesamt zugutekommen kann.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World, 2018
... The significance of this definition is that it eschews some of the motives frequently attribu... more ... The significance of this definition is that it eschews some of the motives frequently attributed to ... a mystery: how is this social dynamic explicable in terms of indi-vidual motivation and action ... Many (though not all) suicide bombers are youths, ranging in age from the late teens to ...
Phantasie und Realität in der Spätadoleszenz, 1993
Anfangen mochte ich mit einem Zitat von Winnicott; er sagt ungefahr folgendes: „Erwachsenwerden b... more Anfangen mochte ich mit einem Zitat von Winnicott; er sagt ungefahr folgendes: „Erwachsenwerden bedeutet, Elternstelle einnehmen — nicht mehr und nicht weniger. In der unbewusten Phantasie ist Erwachsenwerden im Grunde ein aggressives Handeln. Und das Kind ist kein kleines Kind mehr“1.
The chapters in this volume by behaviorally oriented therapists highlight some of the primary dif... more The chapters in this volume by behaviorally oriented therapists highlight some of the primary differences between our conception of therapy and theirs. The primary image of the behaviorally oriented therapist that emerges is that of teacher, coach, detective, researcher, and scientist. The task for patients (or clients) is to learn specific techniques that will supposedly enable them to solve problems and more effectively cope with disrupted aspects of their lives as they are expressed primarily in a specific, focused symptom formation. The therapeutic techniques are drawn from procedures frequently used by teachers to establish effective learning (lesson plans, homework assignments), by coaches to encourage greater commitment, or by scientists (or detectives) in the search for hypotheses and for experimental procedures that will either confirm, disconfirm, or lead to the refinement of the hypotheses. According to Turkat and Meyer, for example, “the clinician performs actual clinical experiments for isolating the relevant independent and dependent variables across cognitive, autonomic, motoric, and environmental modalities.” Techniques are selected on a purely “pragmatic” basis, primarily in terms of whether they will be effective in reducing the specific, distressing, and troublesome symptom. In contrast, we believe that the basic mutative factor in therapy is the patient’s experience of himself and of the therapist within the context of the therapeutic relationship.
The Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences, 1995
A wide variety of conceptualizations exists to account for the facilitation of change in psychoth... more A wide variety of conceptualizations exists to account for the facilitation of change in psychotherapy. These are usually related to advances in psychopathological and/or developmental formulations. The approach to the subject usually follows causal logic, in the spirit of the medical model. The present paper argues that although causal factors operate in psychotherapeutic practice, alongside them there is a class of non-causal factors whose impact and contribution to therapeutic progress should not be underestimated. The paradoxical effect of these factors may be better understood if we examine those features that pertain not to focal "psychotherapeutic action," but to what enables it, namely to the background factors inherent in the psychotherapeutic situation. Of these, abstinence and constancy are two factors singled out for discussion. With the help of clinical vignettes, it is illustrated how these two controversial psychotherapeutic tenets contribute decisively to t...
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