Pub Date : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1080/0803706x.2021.1970223
H. Lothane
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1984576
H. Blum, E. Blum
Abstract This paper briefly reviews major theoretical and clinical changes in American psychoanalysis since its beginning in the early twentieth century. The immigration of European analysts in the 1930s and 40s was of major significance. Infant development research promoted a shift towards the importance of object relations, reducing the importance of the Oedipus complex. The increasing focus on narcissism and borderline personalities is discussed, as well as the applications to dynamic psychotherapy. Dogma dissipated with increasing latitude in theory and clinical work within “classical” psychoanalysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1991593
Giuseppe Salerno
Paolo Migone: Psychoanalysis via the Internet is certainly possible, and the theoretical premises are the same as those underlying “normal” psychoanalysis, that is, psychoanalysis not involving the Internet. I have used quotation marks for the adjective “normal” to imply that it is a theoretical error to think that there is a normal psychoanalysis, which is in fact a myth (recalling the myth of the “classical technique,” which exists mostly in books). Psychoanalysis is a general theory that is applied to infinite clinical situations: different settings, different weekly frequencies, groups, couples, families, emergencies, brief therapies, severe diagnoses, and so forth. In each of these cases, psychoanalysis must be adapted to the situation and needs of individual patients, at least according to ego psychology, the important psychoanalytic school, which began as early as the 1930s and spread mainly in the USA in the middle of the twentieth century. To make things clearer, I will give an example: if we, in order to remain “psychoanalysts,” will not modify our so-called “classical” technique with patients who need it to be modified or who cannot tolerate it, paradoxically we cease to be psychoanalysts, or rather we are bad psychoanalysts. The thought that psychoanalysis is just the one referred to as “classical” (outside the Internet, use of the couch, high weekly frequency, etc.) does not mean only impoverishing, but also misunderstanding it and showing a lack of comprehension of the theory of technique. It means using a stereotyped technique, learned in the wrong way. I will say more: to think that online and offline therapy are “different objects” means having a theory of technique that makes us make mistakes even in traditional therapy, that is, therapy not involving the Internet. It also shows a lack of understanding what “communication” is about. It is obvious that an online and an offline therapy are very different, but in the same way that two offline (i.e. “normal”) therapies can be extremely different from each other, and there can be more difference between two offline therapies than between an online therapy and an offline therapy. Thinking that diversity resides only in the communication methods means not knowing what the main variables at play in a therapy are. And it is equally obvious that a patient, for transference reasons (or a therapist, for countertransference reasons), may prefer Internet therapy (some patients may want to defend themself, without realizing it, from the “real” relationship, or rather from the fantasy they have of the real-life relationship, for example being afraid of dependency, etc.), and it would be the therapist’s mistake not to see and not to interpret this defense. However, it is equally obvious that a patient and a therapist can defend themselves from the fantasy they have of Internet therapy, and often this defense is not analyzed precisely because the therapist considers “normal” only a therapy not vi
Paolo Migone:通过互联网进行精神分析当然是可能的,其理论前提与“正常”精神分析的基础相同,即不涉及互联网的精神分析。我在形容词“正常”上加了引号,以暗示认为存在正常的精神分析是一个理论上的错误,这实际上是一个神话(回想起“经典技术”的神话,它主要存在于书中)。精神分析是一种适用于无限临床情况的一般理论:不同的环境,不同的每周频率,团体,夫妻,家庭,紧急情况,简短的治疗,严重的诊断,等等。在每一种情况下,精神分析都必须适应个体患者的情况和需求,至少根据自我心理学,一个重要的精神分析学派,早在20世纪30年代就开始了,并在20世纪中叶主要在美国传播。为了更清楚地说明问题,我将举一个例子:如果我们为了保持“精神分析学家”的身份,不修改我们所谓的“经典”技术,对那些需要修改或无法忍受的病人,矛盾的是,我们不再是精神分析学家,或者更确切地说,我们是糟糕的精神分析学家。认为精神分析只是所谓的“经典”(在互联网之外,使用沙发,每周高频率等),这不仅意味着贫穷,而且是误解它,表现出对技术理论的缺乏理解。它意味着使用一种以错误的方式学习的刻板的技术。我还要说:认为线上和线下治疗是“不同的对象”,意味着有一种技术理论,即使在传统的治疗中,即不涉及互联网的治疗中,我们也会犯错误。这也表明他们缺乏对“沟通”的理解。很明显,在线治疗和离线治疗是非常不同的,但同样地,两种离线(即“正常”)治疗可能彼此非常不同,两种离线治疗之间的差异可能比在线治疗和离线治疗之间的差异更大。认为多样性只存在于交流方法中意味着不知道治疗中起作用的主要变量是什么。同样明显的是,患者出于移情的原因(或者治疗师出于反移情的原因),可能更喜欢网络治疗(一些患者可能想要在没有意识到的情况下保护自己,不受“真实”关系的影响,或者更确切地说,不受他们对现实生活关系的幻想的影响,例如害怕依赖,等等),如果治疗师没有看到和解释这种防御,那将是他们的错误。然而,同样明显的是,患者和治疗师可以为自己辩护,不让他们对网络治疗抱有幻想,而且这种辩护往往没有得到准确的分析,因为治疗师只认为不通过互联网的治疗是“正常的”(同样地,他们可能认为经典技术是“正常的”,例如使用沙发,因此不考虑患者可能防御性地使用它的情况)。因此,治疗师是根据一种偏见行事的,在这种偏见中,临床数据不是被解释的,而是先验的,就像在一种标签理论中一样,因此,我们可以将其定义为“非精神分析”的理论。
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1999498
M. Buchholz
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Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990401
M. Peciccia, Livia Buratta, M. Ardizzi, Alessandro Germani, Giulia Ayala, F. Ferroni, C. Mazzeschi, V. Gallese
Abstract We will describe in two articles (“Sense of self and psychosis”, 1 and 2) the theoretical basis and the methodology of a new therapeutic group approach called amniotic therapy, which aims to improve the sense of self of psychotic patients. In this first article we explore the role of the surface of the body and its early sensorimotor interactions in the processes of self/other identification and differentiation. We propose that these processes have common origins, the body surface and its interactions, but different destinies, depending on where the body’s surface is projected. When it is projected intrapsychically we have differentiation, and when it is projected externally onto the body’s surface of the other, we have identification. Identification is a reciprocal process, in which the self’s and the other’s surfaces mutually contain each other and co-create a shared field. The neural correlates of identification and differentiation are discussed. The second article, which follows, describes amniotic therapy and explores a single case study.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1990402
M. Peciccia, Alessandro Germani, M. Ardizzi, Livia Buratta, F. Ferroni, C. Mazzeschi, V. Gallese
Abstract Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia show an alteration of the sense of self. From a psychodynamic perspective, it has been hypothesized they have disorders of the integration of self/other identification/differentiation processes. From a neuroscientific view some with this diagnosis present dysfunctions in neural correlates of representation of self from other (the implicit sensorimotor-based bodily self), and self united with other. In “Sense of self and psychosis, part 1” we discussed scientific literature offering empirical evidence for the psychodynamic clinical observations that patients with diagnoses of psychoses didn't receive adequate early infancy parental care and sufficient affective-sensorial/tactile interactions. Introducing parental care/cutaneous interactions seemed relevant in the analytic treatment of psychoses, as the pioneers of the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis suggested. From this theoretical basis we developed amniotic therapy, which reproduces the affective-tactile interactions of early infancy, insufficient in cases of psychosis, and aims at integrating the processes of differentiation and identification. We present a single case study of an experimental intervention plan including amniotic therapy. Results showed increases in interoception and global functioning, with significant decreases in positive symptoms suggesting that amniotic therapy contributes to increasing the protective strength of self-boundaries and integration of identification/differentiation processes.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970225
R. Ehrlich
Abstract In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1970224
R. Ehrlich
Abstract In this paper, I explore the nature of Paul Williams’ portrayal of the psychological growth of the narrator in The fifth principle and Scum. Growing up in an impoverished environment, both as a child and as an adolescent, the narrator experienced forms of neglect and abuse, which, together with the fantasies that he created, left him traumatized and close to being totally shattered. This is conveyed quite graphically through the use of various stylistic devices that include shifts in the method of narration in both books as well as the innovative use of language in Scum. Through extensive introspection as well as the help provided by others, the narrator suggests that he became sufficiently psychologically independent as well as capable of feeling connected to others in sustained ways.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2022.2090202
M. Conci, G. Maniadakis
It should come as no surprise to our readers that we dedicate this issue of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis to the ways in which the field of psychological research founded by Sigmund Freud can help us understand and deal with social and political problems, now that the war in the Ukraine has been going on for more than three months. One of us (M.C.) owes to the book by Andreas Kappeler Kleine Geschichte der Ukraine (Kappeler, 2022) the welcome and necessary knowledge of the complexity of the history and the development of the national identity of the Ukrainian people, a process which has been going on for several centuries, and which reminded him of the similar long process undergone by his own country, Italy. Although Italy had already started having a national literature in the thirteenth century, it was only in 1861 that it became a politically unified country. This happened with the Ukraine only in the summer of 1991, but given its position on the border between the European Union and Russia, as well as the lack of an adequate capacity of dialogue with and containment of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive strategy and plans, we are now confronted with the most terrible war we have had in Europe since the end of World War II. And there is no way yet in sight for how such a war can come to the end. “Psychoanalysis and political economy” by Siegfried Zepf andDietmar Seel (both from Saarbrücken, Germany) is the first article of this issue. We propose it to our readers also in order to remind them of how much its first author – who passed away in October 2021 aged 84 –was genuinely committed to a socially critical psychoanalysis. No wonder that his 2009 article “Consumerism and identity: Some psychoanalytical considerations” has received 2760 views and occupies second position on this journal’s list of Most Read Articles (see Zepf, 2009). One of us (M.C.) originally met Siegfried Zepf in 1990 through the German “Bernfeld-Gruppe,” a group of colleagues committed to developing a critique of “institutionalized psychoanalysis,” as the editor of the book “Wer sich nicht bewegt, der spürt auch seine Fesseln nicht” – Anmerkungen zur gegenwärtigen Lage der Psychoanalyse (Zepf, 1990). It is no wonder that, in the article written together with his colleague and friend Dietmar Seel, Siegfried Zepf focussed on the way in which psychoanalysis can be dealt with from a Marxist point of view, with particular regard for the way in which we have our patients pay us for the work we do with them, and not for the result we are able to obtain – that is, irrespective of whether or not we cure them. The authors’ analysis brings them to conclude that, in psychoanalysis, the suspension of truth value, the tolerance shown towards contradictory concepts, the lack of conceptual criticism, and the exclusion of sociocritical issues seem to be effects of psychoanalysts’ interest in realizing the exchange value of their psychoanalytic treatment and their accompanying lesser i
鉴于乌克兰战争已经持续了三个多月,我们将这期《国际精神分析论坛》专门讨论由西格蒙德·弗洛伊德创立的心理学研究领域如何帮助我们理解和处理社会和政治问题,这应该不会让读者感到惊讶。我们中的一个人(M.C.)从安德烈斯·卡佩勒(Andreas Kappeler)的《乌克兰的Kleine Geschichte》(Kappeler, 2022)一书中获得了关于乌克兰人民的历史复杂性和民族认同发展的欢迎和必要的知识,这个过程已经持续了几个世纪,这让他想起了他自己的国家意大利所经历的类似的漫长过程。虽然意大利早在13世纪就开始有民族文学,但直到1861年它才成为一个政治上统一的国家。这种情况只在1991年夏天发生在乌克兰身上,但考虑到乌克兰在欧盟和俄罗斯边界上的位置,以及与弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)咄咄逼人的战略和计划缺乏足够的对话和遏制能力,我们现在面临着自第二次世界大战结束以来在欧洲经历的最可怕的战争。而且目前还没有办法结束这样一场战争。《精神分析与政治经济学》是本期的第一篇文章,作者齐格弗里德·泽夫(Siegfried Zepf)和迪特马尔·希尔(dietmar Seel)都来自德国萨尔布尔肯。我们向读者推荐这本书,也是为了提醒他们,这本书的第一位作者——他于2021年10月去世,享年84岁——是多么真诚地致力于社会批判精神分析。难怪他2009年的文章“消费主义和身份:一些精神分析的考虑”收到了2760次阅读,并在该杂志的阅读次数最多的文章列表中排名第二(见Zepf, 2009)。我们中的一位(M.C.)最初是在1990年通过德国的“伯恩菲尔德小组”认识齐格弗里德·泽夫的,该小组是一群致力于对“制度化精神分析”进行批判的同事,他是《我们在哪里,我们在哪里》(Anmerkungen zur gegenwärtigen Lage der Psychoanalyse,泽夫,1990)一书的编辑。难怪齐格弗里德·泽普夫在与他的同事兼朋友迪特马尔·塞尔(Dietmar Seel)合著的这篇文章中,把重点放在了从马克思主义的角度看待精神分析的方式上,特别是我们让病人为我们为他们所做的工作付费的方式,而不是我们能够获得的结果——也就是说,不管我们是否治愈了他们。作者的分析使他们得出结论,在精神分析中,真理价值的暂停,对矛盾概念的宽容,概念批评的缺乏以及对社会批判问题的排除似乎是精神分析学家对实现其精神分析治疗的交换价值的兴趣以及对其使用价值的兴趣较少的结果。我们的柏林同事、德国精神分析学会(DPG)的培训分析师斯蒂芬妮·塞德拉切克(Stefanie Sedlacek)在《欲望的化身?《视频和电话分析中的虚拟可能性空间》刚刚发表在《国际精神分析杂志》上。由于DPG是1962年IFPS的四个创始协会之一(见Huppke, 2021),我们的期刊专门花了很多篇幅来重建二战以来德国精神分析学的发展。第1/2021号是我们编辑的“精神分析中的德国主题”系列专题中的第四期(M.C.;参见Conci, 2021)。Stefanie Sedlacek在她的论文中为这四个问题增加了一个非常重要的临床维度。通过它,我们了解到,尽管西德和东德的统一可以追溯到1990年10月,但她的病人似乎仍然生活在一个分裂的国家里,这就产生了一种内化的分裂身份,这种身份在移情中的防御作用必须在分析工作中不断得到解决。这样一个“分裂的德国物体”是客观的
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0803706X.2021.1977847
S. Zepf, Dietmar Seel
Abstract The authors examine the influence that psychoanalysts’ economic situation has on the current state of psychoanalysis, particularly focusing on the situation in Germany and employing a perspective afforded by Marxian commodity analysis. Their analysis brings them to conclude that, in psychoanalysis, the suspension of truth value, the tolerance shown towards contradictory concepts, the lack of conceptual criticism, and the exclusion of sociocritical issues seem to be effects of psychoanalysts’ interest in realizing the exchange value of their psychoanalytic treatment and their accompanying lesser interest towards its use value.
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