Recently added articles from International Journal of Psychoanalysis:
On: Supportive interventions and non-symbolic mental functioning
Jun 01, 2008; Torsti-Hagman, Marita ... Dear Editors, I have read the paper, Supportive interventions and non-symbolic mental functioning by Serge Lecours, with great interest. For me there has never existed any discrimination of supportive elements in any therapy. Psychoanalysis does not use supportive elements. I ...
Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update
Jun 01, 2008; Kernberg, Otto F; Yeomans, Frank E; Clarkin, John F; Levy, Kenneth N ... This paper describes a specific psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with severe personality disorders, its technical approach and specific research projects establishing empirical evidence supporting its efficacy. This treatment derives from the findings of the Menninger Foundation ...
On: Bodily centered protections in adolescence
Jun 01, 2008; Vartzopoulos, Ioannis ... Dear Editors, I should like to express my thanks to Dr Judith Mitrani for offering us both the theoretical framework and a detailed clinical presentation of bodily centered protections in adolescence (Mitrani, 2007). The author discusses thoroughly the resort to sensation-dominated ...
On: The comments of Dr Vartzopoulos
Jun 01, 2008; Mitrani, Judith ... Dear Editors, I'd like to thank Dr Vartzopoulos for the attention to and expressed appreciation of my paper. As I wrote in my paper, " ... The constellation of conflicts, anxieties and defenses of an extremely primitive nature that I have highlighted in Cathy's case are frequently ...
On: The comments of Marita Torsti-Hagman
Jun 01, 2008; Lecours, Serge ... Dear Editors, I thank Marita Torsti-Hagman for her comments on my paper and for this opportunity to highlight some important points that were not sufficiently emphasized in the paper. I will focus my reply on the two main arguments addressed in her letter. The first is the problem of ...
Lectures: Part Two: Is it still possible to interpret texts?
Jun 01, 2008; Skinner, Quentin ... My aim in what follows1 is simply to raise some questions about the possibility and the limits of interpretation. I am chiefly interested in the interpretation of texts and, above all, of texts in the history of philosophy, from which I shall mainly draw my examples. But I believe that my ...
The mother in the text: Metapsychology and phantasy in the work of interpretation1
Jun 01, 2008; Petrella, Fausto ... In this paper the author discusses some characteristics of a psychoanalytic text on the basis of two pages of Freud's essay, Delusions and dreams in Jensen's 'Gradiva' (Freud, 1906), on the concept of the return of the repressed. Analysis of the text shows that the four references (Horace, Rops, ...
Meeting Movies
Jun 01, 2008; Freeman, Phillip ... Meeting Movies by Norman N. Holland Fairleigh Dickinson Press, Madison, NJ, 2006; 201 pp; $41.50 The shift in emphasis from the object of perception to the perceiver that is represented in psychoanalysis by the shift from a one- to a two-person psychology is paralleled in literary ...
Lectures: Part One: Introduction to Quentin Skinner: Interpretation in psychoanalysis and history
Jun 01, 2008; Pick, Daniel; Rustin, Michael ... The article on interpretation by the historian, Quentin Skinner, published in the present issue of the IJP, is concerned with textual analysis rather than psychoanalysis, yet the debate in which it engages has considerable relevance to the work that analysts do. In this brief introduction to his ...
A Monk on the Couch: An Adolescent Trajectory in the Central Middle Ages
Jun 01, 2008; Mezan, Renato ... A Monk on the Couch: An Adolescent Trajectory in the Central Middle Ages by David Léo Levisky Casa do Psicólogo, São Paulo, 2007; 380 pp. "Was there such a thing as adolescence in other eras of civilization?" A myriad of problems writhe beneath the apparent simplicity of the question ...
Avant d'être celui qui parle [Before Being the Person Who Speaks]
Jun 01, 2008; Colin, Bertrand ... Avant d'être celui qui parle [Before Being the Person Who Speaks] by Jean-Claude Rolland Gallimard, Paris, Connaissance de l'inconscient, Tracés, 2006; 215 pp; [euro]16.501 Sometimes a book finds a niche by the analyst's armchair. Before Being the Person Who Speaks may be one of these, ...
Percorsi di trasformazione nella cura analitica [Transformative Pathways in the Analytic Cure]
Jun 01, 2008; Fusacchia, Maria Grazia ... Percorsi di trasformazione nella cura analitica [Transformative Pathways in the Analytic Cure] by Francesco Mancuso Borla, Roma, 2006; 190 pp; [euro]221 Francesco Mancuso, author of Transformative Pathways in the Analytic Cure, here gives expression to his stimulating theoretical and ...
On: Supervision, transference and countertransference
Jun 01, 2008; Vaslamatzis, Grigoris ... Dear Editors, I read Dr Fink's paper (2007) with great interest. I found his title very pertinent for it places supervision in that intermediate space implied by the old aphorism quoted by Pedder, 'supervision is more than education and less than psychotherapy' (Pedder, 1986). I detected ...
Die Melodie des Abschieds: Eine psychoanalytische Studie zur Trennungsangst [The Melody of Parting: A Psychoanalytic Study of Separation Anxiety]
Jun 01, 2008; Ott, Reinhold ... Die Melodie des Abschieds: Eine psychoanalytische Studie zur Trennungsangst [The Melody of Parting: A Psychoanalytic Study of Separation Anxiety] by Sylvia Zwettler-Otte Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2006;176 pp; [euro]281 As psychoanalysts we know how deeply concerned we are with separation in ...
A case history: From traumatic repetition towards psychic representability1
Jun 01, 2008; Bichi, Estela L ... This paper is devoted principally to a case history concerning an analytic process extending over a period of almost ten years. The patient is B, who consulted the author after a traumatic episode. Although that was her reason for commencing treatment, a history of previous traumatogenic ...
Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World
Jun 01, 2008; Dupecher, Martha ... Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World by Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 2006; 222 pp; $45.00 In Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World, Danielle Knafo and Kenneth Feiner attempt to establish a new model of working with unconscious ...
Repression and splitting: Towards a method of conceptual comparison1
Jun 01, 2008; Hinshelwood, R D ... An attempt is made to compare two psychoanalytic concepts which by 'belonging' to different psychoanalytic groups have come to be defined and used differently. The paper is also an inquiry into the possibility of a comparative psychoanalytic method. The two concepts are 'repression' and ...
Sognare l'analisi. Sviluppi clinici del pensiero di Wilfred R.Bion [To Dream Analysis. Clinical Developments in Wilfred R. Bion's Thought]
Jun 01, 2008; Ferruta, Anna ... Sognare l'analisi. Sviluppi clinici del pensiero di Wilfred R.Bion [To Dream Analysis. Clinical Developments in Wilfred R. Bion's Thought] by Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, Maurizio Collovà, Giovanni Foresti, Elena Molinari, Fulvio Mazzacane and Pierluigi Politi Bollati Boringhieri, ...
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip/Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators?
Jun 01, 2008; Miller, Gavin ... Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis: The Life and Thought of Harry S. Guntrip by Trevor M. Dobbs Pickwick Publications, Eugene, OR, 2007; 190 pp; $22.00 Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? by David M. Black Routledge, London and New York, 2006; ...
The language of absence
Jun 01, 2008; Gurevich, Hayuta ... This paper will focus on the concept of 'absence', which describes a continuum of nonresponsiveness and misattunement of the environment in the stage of absolute dependence; it refers to concepts like lack, failure, non-recognition, impingement, neglect, tantalizing, ranging to mental, physical ...