Recently added articles from International Journal of Psychoanalysis:
Comments on León Grinberg's life and work1
Feb 01, 2009; ... The death of León Grinberg on 25 September 2007 gives me the occasion to reflect about his life and his work. He spent ten years debilitated, in the loving care of his wife and sons, Daniel and Alberto, the only ones with whom he could carry on an emotional interchange, as with the friends who ...
The reality of the other: Dreaming of the analyst1
Feb 01, 2009; ... The author discusses the obstacles to symbolization encountered when the analyst appears in the first dream of an analysis: the reality of the other is represented through the seeming recognition of the person of the analyst, who is portrayed in undisguised form. The interpretation of this first ...
Behind the sun: From blind vengeance to freedom
Feb 01, 2009; ... Behind the Sun - originally entitled Abril Despedacado in Portuguese, literally 'Torn Apart April' - was made in 2001, and released in UK in 2002, by Walter Salles, the director of Central Station, and, more recently, of The Motorcycle Diaries. It is taken from the novel Broken April, written in ...
Reading memoirs of childhood
Feb 01, 2009; ... Childhood1 by Leo Tolstoy translated by Michael Scammell Modern Library, New York, NY, 2002 W, or The Memory of Childhood 2 by Georges Perec translated by David Bellos David R. Godine, Boston, MA, 1988 Rue Ordener, Rue Labat 3 by Sarah Kofman translated by Ann Smock University of ...
Psychoanalyse in Selbstdarstellungen [Self-Portraits in Psychoanalysis]1
Feb 01, 2009; ... Psychoanalyse in Selbstdarstellungen [Self-Portraits in Psychoanalysis]1 edited by Ludger M. Hermanns Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt, 2007; vol. V, 208 pp, vol. VI, 208 pp; e19.90 per vol. Fifteen years ago the Berlin psychoanalyst Ludger M. Hermanns set about proposing and collecting ...
Cliniques de la délinquance [Clinical Studies of Delinquency]
Feb 01, 2009; ... Cliniques de la délinquance [Clinical Studies of Delinquency] by August Aichhorn Champ social Editions, Nîmes, 2007; 240 pp; [euro]15 It has taken more than half a century for this anthology of papers and lectures by August Aichhorn, the famous Viennese educationalist and psychoanalyst, ...
The Vitality of Objects1
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Vitality of Objects1 edited by Anthony Molino, Lilia Baglioni and Joseph Scalia Borla, Rome, 2007; 269 pp; [euro]25 This book is the result of a particular choice made by the Italian publishing company. It is, in fact, a revised edition - enriched and expanded by contributions from ...
Le visioni di uno psicoanalista [A Psychoanalyst's Visions]
Feb 01, 2009; ... Le visioni di uno psicoanalista [A Psychoanalyst's Visions] by Giuseppe Riefolo Antigone, Torino, 2006; 176 pp; [euro]13 There already exists a rich literature on numerous aspects of the relationship psychoanalysis and psychiatry entertain with cinema. Some of it 'applies' to film ...
Disorders of the Self: A Personality-Guided Approach
Feb 01, 2009; ... Disorders of the Self: A Personality-Guided Approach by Marshall L. Silverstein Series Editor: Theodore Millon American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2007; 315 pp; $49.95 An eminent and practiced psychoanalyst, when asked for his diagnostic appraisal of a patient's ...
Psychanalyse de l'imposture [Psychoanalysis of Imposture]1
Feb 01, 2009; ... Psychanalyse de l'imposture [Psychoanalysis of Imposture]1 by Andrée Bauduin PUF, Paris, 2007; 222 pp; e28 Andrée Bauduin is a full member of both the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society and the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. In 1987, she wrote a report entitled On the Preconscious for the ...
Attachment, Play and Authenticity: A Winnicott Primer
Feb 01, 2009; ... Attachment, Play and Authenticity: A Winnicott Primer by Steven Tuber Jason Aronson, New York, 2008; 236 pp; $75 Winnicott, as Ogden (2001) has recently observed, is unusual among psychoanalytic writers in the interdependence of his ideas and his manner of expressing them, and unique in ...
Emotion as an Infinite Experience: Matte Blanco and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Feb 01, 2009; ... Emotion as an Infinite Experience: Matte Blanco and Contemporary Psychoanalysis edited by Alessandra Ginzburg and Riccardo Lombardi Franco Angeli, Milan, 2007; 311 pp; [euro]26.50 Ignacio Matte Blanco - a great Chilean analyst who died in Rome twelve years ago - was very famous and ...
What kind of research in psychoanalytic science?1
Feb 01, 2009; ... The kind of science that psychoanalysis is (can be), and the kind of research appropriate to it, qualitative and/or quantitative, have been divisive issues from the very inception of the discipline. I explore in detail the complexity of these issues, definitional and semantic, as well as ...
The Analyst at Work: Boys only! No mothers allowed/The Analyst at Work: Comments on 'Boys only! No mothers allowed'/The Analyst at Work: Triadic reality, same sex parents and child analysis: A response to Ann Smolen's 'Boys only! No mothers allowed'
Feb 01, 2009; ... Georgie was adopted from an Asian country at 8 months of age by two gay men, Herb (the legal parent) and Tony. There are few details of his prenatal and birth history although it is known that he had low Apgar scores. It is also known that he was born in the same hospital that became his home ...
The Analyst at Work: A contemporary child-case discussion
Feb 01, 2009; ... It is with great pleasure that I accepted the kind invitation to share my thoughts on Ann G. Smolen's presentation of her challenging case. What follows is what I would like to consider as a contribution to the essential debate in which we, child analysts, must engage. The analyst first ...
On understanding projective identification in the treatment of psychotic states of mind: The publishing cohort of H. Rosenfeld, H. Segal and W. Bion (1946-1957)
Feb 01, 2009; ... A publishing cohort of Kleinian analysts - Rosenfeld, Segal and Bion - implemented Klein's (1946) notions of projective identification and the 'paranoid' and 'schizoid' positions in the understanding of a group of psychotic disorders. The author differentiates Klein's (1946) Notes on some ...
'Can you push a camel through the eye of a needle?' Reflections on how the unconscious speaks to us and its clinical implications
Feb 01, 2009; ... There has been a recent surge of interest in a type of thinking seen in some patients most of the time, and all patients some of the time. In the past it was simply called regressive thinking, but attempts to be more specific have led it to be called by various names, like 'pre-symbolic', ...
'Reverberation time', dreaming and the capacity to dream
Feb 01, 2009; ... In this paper the author suggests that understanding the roots of the subjective sense of time can throw light on the disturbances in psychic time which are found in particular in the more severe pathologies. She introduces the argument that the roots of the development of the sense of time rest ...
Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts
Dec 01, 2008; ... Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts by Andrea Celenza Roman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, 2007; 267 pp; $49.95 Andrea Celenza has written an ambitious and wide-ranging book on sexual boundary violations by therapists. Although Dr ...
Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame
Dec 01, 2008; ... Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame by Joseph D. Lichtenberg The Analytic Press, New York, London, 2008; 160 pp; $90 This slim volume, the twenty-fifth in the Psychoanalytic Inquiry book series, is composed of a brief, crisp introduction by Lichtenberg, followed by eight ...