Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis:
EVA LESTER: 1923-2008
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is with profound regret and sadness that we announce the passing of Eva Lester, the founding editor-in-chief of the cjp/rcp. She was editor-in-chief from the journal's inception in 1993 until her retirement in 2002. Eva Lester was an outstanding Canadian psychoanalyst who enjoyed ...
COMMENT ON WASKA'S "IS IT PSYCHOANALYTIC?"
Oct 01, 2008; ... If it was the intention of Dr. Waska to demonstrate that psychoanalysis four times a week on the couch, less -frequent single -patient psychoanalytic psychotherapy - perhaps twice weekly on the couch or sitting up, and psycho analytically oriented couples and group psychotherapy, all manifest ...
IS IT PSYCHOANALYTIC? THE CLINICAL CONCEPT OF ANALYTIC CONTACT
Oct 01, 2008; ... This paper examines the technical value of analytic contact - a clinical concept that can bring balance to the current crisis in the field of psychoanalysis. Rather than perpetuate the ongoing debates over defining what is psychoanalysis by elements such as frequency, diagnosis, analyzability, ...
AN INQUIRY INTO THE ALPHA FUNCTION
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wilfred R. Bion deliberately maintained the ambiguity of the term alpha function, in order to avoid a premature saturation of a variable. The author intends to explore the possible meanings of this term, when applied to an inquiry of the relationships between semiotics and psychoanalysis, the ...
L'ATTAQUE HYSTÉRIQUE
Oct 01, 2008; ... L'auteur examine deux courts textes de Freud (1892, 1909) sur l'attaque hystérique, une appellation devenue obsolète. L'écart entre ces deux textes permet de souligner un aspect particulier de l'accès hystérique, le rôle central de l'affect, plus précisément de l'utilisation de l'affect ou de ...
L'inconscient dans la famille
Oct 01, 2008; ... L'inconscient dans la famille Par Jean-Georges Lemaire, Françoise Aubertel, Marthe Barraco de Pinto, Geneviève Djenati, Martine Lamour et Philippe Robert Paris : Dunod, 2007, 234 p. Avec ses livres Le couple : sa vie, sa mort (1979) et Famille, amour, folie (1989), Jean- Georges Lemaire ...
18TH ANNUAL DAY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Oct 01, 2008; ... 28 April 2007, Toronto Keynote speaker: J. Reid Meloy: "A Psychoanalytic View of Psychopathy" Donald Carveth, Judith Deutsch, William Watson, Richard Weisman The clinically and medico -legally important construct of psychopathy was the subject of the day-long discussion at the ...
ON BECOMING AN ANALYST
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Brian Robertson This conference report is unusual in that it describes a conference written and presented by psychoanalytic candidates. To read personal accounts from candidates of their training is rare in the psychoanalytic literature and a first for our journal ....
THE SIBLING COMPLEX: THOUGHTS ON FRENCH-ENGLISH "TRANSLATION"
Oct 01, 2008; ... The French psychoanalyst René Kaës has made important contributions to psychoanalysis over the last several decades, particularly in the area of group psychology. The readers of this journal, French and English, owe thanks to David Benhaim for his helpful introduction to René Kaës's work, ...
AUTISM IN INFANCY: THE PSYCHODYNAMICS FROM A FREUDIAN VIEWPOINT
Oct 01, 2008; ... The authors investigate whether a specific psychodynamic process might underlie the principal symptoms of autism in infancy-social isolation, insistence on sameness, echolalia, and the absence of the communicative function of language. They show that these symptoms can be attributed to a ...
Y A-T-IL UNE SPÉCIFICITÉ DU COMPLEXE FRATERNEL?
Oct 01, 2008; ... YA-T-IE UNE SPÉCIFICITÉ DU COMPLEXE FRATERNEL? Le complexe fraternel Par René Kaës Dunod, Paris, 2008, 241p. INTRODUCTION Le livre de Kaës est un plaidoyer en faveur de la reconnaissance de la spécificité du complexe fraternel. Qu'est-ce qui rend possible cette reconnaissance? ...
IS THERE A SIBLING COMPLEX?
Oct 01, 2008; ... IS THERE A SIBLING COMPLEX? Le complexe fraternel By René Kaës Paris: Dunod, 2008, 241 pp. INTRODUCTION Kaës's book is a plea for the recognition of the sibling complex. What makes such recognition possible? It is the perspective from which he approaches it: a group perspective ....
One Boy
Oct 01, 2008; ... One Boy by Deborah Green Seattle: Every Day Press, 2006, 141 pp.1 Occasionally circumstances bring a very special book to one's attention - a title one would otherwise have been unlikely to encounter. When this happens, it feels like winning the lottery. A book falls into one's hands by ...
Psychosis: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytical Approaches
Oct 01, 2008; ... Psychosis: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytical Approaches edited by Jozef Corveleyn and Paul Moyaert Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003, 165 pp. The neuro scientists tell us that a human brain contains about one hundred billion neurons and that nothing they know will predict a ...
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis by James S. Grotstein London: Karnac Books, 2007, 382 pp. Wilfred Bion continues to provoke: his writing can be inspiring, confusing, or irritating, but it is never straightforward. He developed an entirely new language ...
IN MEMORIAM: JOHAN BINETTE 1948-2007
Oct 01, 2008; ... On July ?, a stroke suddenly took the life of our colleague Jo han Binette and left us all unpre- pared to deal with her absence. A member of the Quebec English section and a psychologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital (McGiIl University Health Centre), Jo han was through- out her life an ...
Fiction et vérité freudiennes : entretiens avec Michel Enaudeau1
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fiction et vérité freudiennes : entretiens avec Michel Enaudeau1 par Laurence Kahn Paris : Balland, 2004, 297 p. Fiction et vérité freuthennes constitue une introduction intéressante à la lecture des ouvrages de Laurence Kahn, psychanalyste membre de l'Association psychanalytique de ...
The Struggle Against Mourning
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Struggle Against Mourning by Ilany Kogan New York: Jason Aronson, 2007, 262 pp. There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. - Author ...
La psychanalyse américaine (Que sais-je ?)
Oct 01, 2008; ... La psychanalyse américaine (Que sais-je ?) by Hélène Tessier Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005, 126 pp. Like many of the volumes devoted to psychoanalysis in the French "Que sais-je?" series, Hélène Tessier's recent contribution provides an excellent historical review, and a ...
CORRECTIONS
Oct 01, 2008; ... The following errors appeared in Don Carve th's review of Erik Erikson and the American Psyche, by Daniel Burston, in the last issue of this journal. The second sentence of the second paragraph on page 108 should read, This was followed by a range of critiques by other authors, ...