Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis back issues from October 2001:
The Complexity and Plasticity of Female Sexual Choice
Oct 01, 2001; ... Abstract Attention has recently been given to female sexuality as separate from reproduction. A range of responses and shifts in object choice have been described. These have been considered to represent"plasticity" of response. This paper considers some of the dynamics of this ...
Editorial/Éditorial
Oct 01, 2001; ... In the spring of 1990, Clifford Scott phoned me to arrange a meeting regarding "a very important subject." I thought it was likely some organizational question of the Society or the Institute. When we met, Scott proposed that I organize and become the editor of a psychoanalytic journal for the ...
A Necessary Illusion: Projective Identification and the Containing Function
Oct 01, 2001; ... Abstract A theoretical discussion of the concepts of identification, projective identification, and the containing function is presented with the aim of isolating the clinical implications of differing definitions of projective identification on transferential and countertransferential ...
Making Our Philosophical Unconscious More Conscious: A Method of Exploring the Philosophical Basis of Psychological Theory
Oct 01, 2001; ... Abstract All psychological and psychoanalytic theories rest upon a series of important philosophical assumptions, yet they are infrequently dealt with in a clear, direct, or comprehensive manner. In this paper a method is offered with which to more systematically and rigorously explore ...
The Siege of Psychotherapeutic Space: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Transparency1
Oct 01, 2001; ... Abstract The failure of the psychotherapeutic profession, and psychoanalysis in particular, to provide a consistent and coherent public account of the specialized nature of the psychotherapeutic relationship and setting has had harmful consequences for both the profession itself and for ...
L'identité psychanalytique/Psychoanalytic Identity
Oct 01, 2001; ... ARTHUR LEONOFF Ottawa Introduction La formation psychanalytique, analyse personnelle comprise, exerce un effet capital sur l'identité personnelle et professionnelle du candidat et comme le papillon sort du cocon, le psychanalyste émerge à l'issue d'au moins quatre années ...
Introduction aux recensions francophones
Oct 01, 2001; ... À l'invitation de la rédactrice en chef,je prends la relève de Louise Deniers en tant que rédacteur des compte-rendus des livres francophones. Je veux en profiter pour exposer brièvement certaines des idées qui m'animent à mes premiers pas dans cette fonction. Au lendemain des événements ...
Dora s'en va : violence dans la psychanalyse
Oct 01, 2001; ... Dora s'en va : violence dans la psychanalyse, par Patrick J. Mahony, traduit par Aline Weil, Paris :Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2001, 220 p. La véritable histoire de cas est un genre en déclin,en particulier dû à la complexité d'une telle entreprise, tant du point de vue de la ...
La féminité autrement
Oct 01, 2001; ... La féminité autrement,sous la direction de Jacques André, Paris, P.U.F., coll. « Petite bibliothèque de psychanalyse », 1999, 155 p. « L'enigme du féminin, pour être irrésoluble, n'en est pas moins féconde », annonce la quatrieme de couverture de ce petit recueil de textes paru en 1999, ...
Agonie, clivage et symbolisation
Oct 01, 2001; ... Agonie, clivage et symbolisation, par René Roussillon. Paris: PUF, Le fait psychanalytique, 1999, 245 pp. René Roussillon poursuit ici sa réflexion théorique sur la clinique des souffrances identitaires-narcissiques qui ont des répercussions considérables sur la fonction subjectivante du ...
Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros
Oct 01, 2001; ... Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros, by Alan Bass. Stanford,CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 309 pp. At this point in its history, psychoanalysis has a rather ambivalent relationship with the idea of reality. On the one hand, many theories stress its purely subjective or ...
The Illusionless Man: Fantasies and Meditations on Disillusionment
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Illusionless Man: Fantasies and Meditations on Disillusionment, by Allen Wheel is. New York: Other Press, 2000, 206 pp. US$14.95. This collection of fantasies and meditations was first published in 1966. The tone of the writing is bleak,as Owen Renik observes in his introduction, ...
The Mind-Brain Relationship
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Mind-Brain Relationship, by Regina Pally. London and New York: Karnac Books, 2000, 196 pp. This little book takes on the giant task of summarizing hundreds of significant findings in the clinical and basic neurosciences. It accomplishes this as well as any other book, with the added ...
The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue, by Steven H. Knoblauch. Hillsdale and London: The Analytic Press, 2000, 175 pp. Any experienced psychotherapist or psychoanalyst will have an intuitive feel for what Knoblauch wishes to convey when he speaks of the "tone," the" "rhythm," the ...
Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness
Oct 01, 2001; ... Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness, by Graeme J. Taylor, R. Michael Bagby, and James D. A. Parker. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 271 pp. This book is the most recent product of at least fifteen years of research by the ...
In Memoriam: Ronald Aldous
Oct 01, 2001; ... Ron Aldous, sixty-seven, died of carcinoma of the kidney on Sunday July 8, 2001. This was the same disease that took his mother when Ron was sixteen. Although we met at the Montreal General Hospital back in the early 1960s-Ron, a psychiatric resident, and I, a rotating intern-it was not ...
IN MEMORIAM: Peter Garth Thomson
Oct 01, 2001; ... Peter Garth Thomson died on July 2, 2001, at the age of eighty. He died at home with his family present, several months after the diagnosis of a brain tumour was made. Despite this illness and the resultant symptoms, Peter continued to retain his interest and enthusiasm for teaching and learning ...