The Psychoanalytic Process: The Developmental and the Integrative

The Other Scene, 2013

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2019

perspective on the nature of psychoanalysis. All of these trends, called for throughout this volume, are evident today. This book is written for a psychoanalytically sophisticated audience. Some of the difficult theory (Jurist, Naso, Lichtenstein) and research (Graf and Diamond; Waldron et al.) material is unlikely to find a readership among nonanalysts, but the ideas and information the book contains must be circulated beyond analytic circles. It is important for the larger world to know that psychoanalysis has changed, and that analysts have changed. We might suggest that progress begets progress (unless it doesn't), but that at least we can mark as progress whatever makes further progress more likely. And the attitudes presented by the contributors to this book are welcoming of new theory and applications. This is a crucial message to convey to analysts and nonanalysts alike.

Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2002

The current debate over the conflicting interpersonal and intrapsychic views of the analytic process may or may not help us to distinguish between psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy. A comparison of psychoanalysis in the English-speaking world-especially in the United States-with French psychoanalysis reveals the features that unite and at the same time divide these different psychoanalytical tendencies, both of which are the heirs to Freud's thought, in terms, in particular, of the setting (couch and chair) and of technique (interpretation, transference analysis and technical neutrality). Whereas all psychoanalytic work belongs within the framework of an interpersonal relationship, that relationship becomes meaningful only when linked to the intrapsychic dimension, which alone can open the way to the unconscious and to infantile sexuality.

Psychoanalytic Review, The, 2008

Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 2015

Objective: The aim of this article is to present the development of a method of analysis of the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children (MAPPP-C) that is relevant for the study of the psychotherapy process from the perspective of the object relations theory. The process was studied by analysing changes in child patients' anxieties, defence mechanisms, object relations and unconscious phantasies, in each psychoanalytic psychotherapy session and throughout their entire psychotherapy. Method: MAPPP-C is both a qualitative and quantitative method of analysis of child psychoanalytic psychotherapy processes. This article will describe the stages in the de-velopment of the method, how the indicators were determined, the units of analysis in the study, the development of analytical codes, the training of raters in this method and inter-rater reliability and agreement tests. Results: This article describes the tasks that compose MAPPP-C, examples of its application and pres...

The traditional aim of psychoanalysis is to elucidate and resolve the unconscious problem. But sometimes the factors are too deep-seated to be eliminated. The goal is instead to find a way through which the complex can be lived in an upright and productive way. A new and higher expression can be found for the irresolvable complex. Instead of conscious integration, focus is on ‘complementation’—the way in which an unconscious content undergoes transformation and conversion. Since long-term analytic treatment is not required in such cases, psychoanalysis can become better aligned to the requirements of public health care. Keywords: irresolvable complex, future of psychoanalysis, social-minded, NPD, complementation.

Journal of Counseling and Development, 2017

The psychoanalytic tradition provides a complex analysis of human behavior because it describes a situation in which human beings are motivated by unconscious wishes and desires, are largely unaware of these unconscious motivations, and are resistant to being made aware of them. From birth, the individual struggles to gratify instincts, developing lessthan-conscious strategies to achieve success or endure failure. This struggle, moreover, is a relational one, beginning in the first caretaking relationships. In Freud's (1905/1953) original drive theory, the developing child was motivated toward the gratification of instinctual drives, and effective caretaking consisted of titrating skillful frustration and satisfaction to help children develop the ability to delay gratification and accept the restriction imposed by reality (McWilliams, 1994). Theorists subsequent to Freud-Klein, Winnicott, Sullivan, Bowlby, Mahler, and Fairbairn, among others-have richly detailed the development of the infant, caretaker, and their relationship (Greenberg & Mitchell, 1983), and still later theorists have demonstrated how clinicians can take advantage of the parallels between the original caretaking relationship and the therapeutic relationship (e.g., Schore, 2010, 2011a, 2011b). In essence, psychoanalytic theory and practice have moved toward a deep and abiding preoccupation with early relationships, both with how these relational patterns are reified in current relationships and how they are activated and managed in the analytic treatment of patients. (For the purposes of this article, we use patients in the specific context of analysis and clients everywhere else. In the same fashion, we use psychoanalysis and analysis to describe the psychoanalytic tradition and the work of a trained and licensed analyst

2014

T he historical relationship between clinical social work and psychoanalysis is both fascinating and extremely complex. Classical psychoanalytic theory and, later, ego psychology stand in relation to social work theory and practice in much the same way as the theory of relativity stands in relation to modern theoretical physics. In each case, the introduction of a new and radical theory has had far-reaching ramifications for the existing framework of knowledge. In this chapter, psychoanalytic ideas and their unique contributions and adaptations to the practice of clinical social work will be discussed and explored in depth. Psychoanalytic theory, of course, is not a unified body of knowledge; rather, it is composed of multiple theories, model , and schemata pertaining to development, P ychopathology, and clinical method and technique. It is a literature of vast scope whose evolution spans an entire century. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK: A CONCISE HISTORY

GEORGIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1995

The present state of theoretical pluralism requires continued efforts to define an integrative perspective. The complexities of the biopsychosocial determinants of human experience underscore the need for this integration. Contributions from relational and interpersonal thinkers focus our attention on important issues (e.g., the impact on the analytic process of the person of the analyst, the nature of interaction and the structure of the unconscious). This focus has enriched psychoanalytic dialogue but has also generated questions concerning the theoretical foundations of the relational model. In this article, we attempt to make explicit and critically evaluate some basic relational tenets that affect the psychoanalytic situation. Concepts of transference, the dynamic unconscious, resistance, the method of free association, and the nature of conflict are discussed. There are tides in the theoretical affairs of psychoanalysts-tides that originate in the struggle to understand the complexities of mental functioning, the problem of motivation, the impact of family and culture on personality, and the nature of transference. The current state of theoretical pluralism and multiple perspective is part of the continual ebb and flow of theoretical development that has characterized psychoanalysis during the past 50 years. Requests for reprints should be sent to