Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis back issues from May 1997:
Introduction: À propos du transgénérationnel . . .
May 01, 1997; ... Pendant plus de quinze ans s'est tenu rue Rockland à Outremont un séminaire bien particulier : chaque semaine, Jean-Louis Langlois recevait dans sa bibliothèque ceux et celles, une quinzaine de personnes, qu'il avait invités à venir discuter «à partir de la métapsychologie de Freud.» On y ...
Transmissions de la vie psychique entre générations (Part 1)
May 01, 1997; ... Le «transgénérationnel», comme on le nomme maintenant couramment, fait surtout référence à la dimension diachronique du vaste domaine de la transmission psychique, délaissant trop souvent1 les autres dimensions, à savoir l'intrapsychique, le transpsychique et surtout l'intersubjectif. Comme on ...
Somatic Violence and the Therapeutic Relationship
May 01, 1997; ... For this Annual Day in Psychoanalysis we have been invited to choose any aspect of the therapeutic relationship in order to demonstrate passionate feelings that may arise in the analyst's countertransference. My first reaction to this theme was that consciously I have always been more ...
Challenges in the Analysis of Adult Patients With Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
May 01, 1997; ... Introduction Almost exactly a century ago Freud (1896) noted that "at the bottom of every case . . . there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience, occurrences which belong to the early years of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psycho-analysis ...
Passions in the Therapeutic Relationship: A Historical Perspective
May 01, 1997; ... When your kind invitation to participate in the symposium "Passionate Encounters in the Therapeutic Relationship" reached me, my own interest centred on writing a book to be called Wrestling with Freud: A New Look at Psychoanalytic History. My interest in the history of psychoanalysis goes back ...
Destruo Ergo Sum: Towards a Psychoanalytic Understanding of Sadism
May 01, 1997; ... Dr. T. put her under hypnosis and told her, as often as 50 times an hour, that she was a slave, and later that she must call him 'master.' She said she was ordered to remove her blouse and bra during their therapy sessions, to approach him on hands and knees and submit to his painful ...
Analytic Style, Character, and the Psychoanalytic Process
May 01, 1997; ... The psychoanalytic literature in recent years has begun to reflect a need to understand the effects of real events in analysts' lives upon treatment. A number of contributions have dealt with such issues as the relocation of the practitioner (Martinez 1989), the analyst who suffers from serious ...
Couples Therapy with Narcissistically Vulnerable Individuals: Contributions from Self Psychology
May 01, 1997; ... A relational understanding of narcissism begins with Balint (1968), who defines narcissism as self-focus, which is secondary to the failure of object love. This latter definition is relevant to understanding couples whose experience of responsive failures from primary caregivers predisposes them ...
In the Gaze of Narcissus: Memory, Affects and Creativity
May 01, 1997; ... In the Gaze of Narcissus: Memory, Affects and Creativity, by Mauro Mancia, foreword by Horacio Etchegoyen, translated by Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi. London: Karnac Books, 1993, 210 pp. The contemporary debate surrounding the theory and treatment of narcissism is the point of departure and ...
The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut 1923-1981
May 01, 1997; ... The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut 1923-1981, edited by Geoffrey Cocks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. It is fortunate for posterity that Heinz Kohut kept up a rich and lively correspondence over five decades, from his life as an impressionable young student in ...
The New Informants: The Betrayal of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
May 01, 1997; ... The New Informants: The Betrayal of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, by Christopher Bollas and David Sundelson. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1995. 215 pp. With an established international reputation in his field behind him, Christopher Bollas, the British ...
The Languages of Psychoanalysis
May 01, 1997; ... The Languages of Psychoanalysis, by John B. Gedo. Hillsdale, N.J.: The Analytic Press, 1996, 209 pp., $59.95. I really enjoyed this most recent book written by that iconoclastic analyst, John Gedo. Gedo, an experienced clinician now in his twilight years, has attempted to theoretically ...
Essential Papers on Masochism
May 01, 1997; ... Essential Papers on Masochism, edited by Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly. New York and London: New York University Press, 1995, 532 pp. Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly includes papers that best describe the topic or best illustrate masochism. She pays careful attention to the historical ...
Daniel Lagache: The Works of Daniel Lagache
May 01, 1997; ... Daniel Lagache: The Works of Daniel Lagache, translated from the French by Elisabeth Holder. London: Karnac Books, 1993, 446 pp. Daniel Lagache (1903-1972) played a role of prime importance in the development of psychoanalysis in France. He was first a professor of philosophy, then ...
La psychothérapie psychanalytique. Une diversité de champs cliniques
May 01, 1997; ... La psychothérapie psychanalytique. Une diversité de champs cliniques. Sous la direction du Dr Pierre Doucet et du Dr Wilfrid Reid. Gaétan Morin éditeur. Montréal, 1996, 674 pp. Publié à une époque où la psychanalyse est loin de jouir de sa popularité d'antan dans les milieux ...
Sacré Julien, Sapré Bigras
May 01, 1997; ... Sacré Julien, Sapré Bigras. Album Vie, Editions Douglas. Montréal: Centre Hospitalier Douglas, 1995, 180 pp. Rares sont les ouvrages à des psychanalystes canadiens et québécois! Aussi convient-il de signaler la parution de ce livre consacré à Julien Bigras, décédé en 1989, membre de la ...
In Memoriam Clifford Scott, 1903-97
May 01, 1997; ... Dr. Clifford Scott waved the world a final goodbye on January 19, 1997. Born in Ontario nearly ninety-four years ago, he went on to achieve international eminence in the field of mental health. By virtue of some sixty years of clinical experience and his close personal relationships with many of ...
In Memoriam 1944-96 Nadia Gargour
May 01, 1997; ... Almost 30 years ago Nadia Gargour, a young woman who had emigrated from her native Egypt, came to work for the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, a new society then at the very early stages of its development. A talented young woman, Nadia soon became central and indispensable, ...