Pub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1177/00030651241250072
Ruth Graver, Robert Alan Glick, Gloria Stern, Sharone Ornstein, Deborah Cabaniss, Jane Halperin, Justin Richardson, Susan C Vaughan, Sabrina Cherry
The Columbia Academy for Psychoanalytic Educators supports graduate analysts' professional development at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In 2018, a pilot program was launched for faculty interested in analyzing and supervising candidates, whose aim is to support and educate those interested in taking on these essential training functions. The focus is on educating the educators, which is a significant departure from the historical focus on evaluation, vetting, and faculty hierarchies. In the process of developing and piloting the program, complex and long debated issues in psychoanalytic education and development were considered that are relevant to many institutes, including training of supervisors and analysts of candidates, addressing problematic faculty hierarchies, creating safety for those presenting clinical work to colleagues, building professional peer relationships, and engagement of faculty in time consuming and nonremunerative activities. The authors report on their experience developing and evaluating this pilot program.
哥伦比亚精神分析教育者学院(Columbia Academy for Psychoanalytic Educators)支持哥伦比亚大学精神分析培训与研究中心(Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)研究生分析师的专业发展。2018年,针对有兴趣分析和指导候选人的教师启动了一项试点计划,其目的是支持和教育那些有兴趣承担这些基本培训职能的教师。重点是教育教育者,这与历史上注重评估、审查和教师等级制度的做法大相径庭。在制定和试行该计划的过程中,考虑了精神分析教育和发展中复杂且长期争论不休的问题,这些问题与许多机构都息息相关,其中包括对候选人的督导和分析师的培训、解决存在问题的教师等级制度、为那些向同事展示临床工作的人创造安全感、建立专业的同行关系,以及让教师参与耗时且无报酬的活动。作者报告了他们开发和评估该试点项目的经验。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1177/00030651241250077
Amit Saad
The direction of time is often defined by describing asymmetries between past and future events, referred to as "time-arrows." Two important time-arrows are the mutability time-arrow, which specifies that the past is unalterable, while the future is not; and the causal time-arrow, which stipulates that past events may cause future events, but not vice versa. The author argues that the unconscious conception of causation expressed in both the oedipal myth and certain oedipal wishes negates the mutability and causal time-arrows. The author suggests, therefore, distinguishing between oedipal phantasies that undermine the ordinary conceptions of causation and time (such as the wish of being one's own parent), and classical content that is in line with our time perception (such as sexual and aggressive wishes toward parents). Analyzing clinical examples suggests that some patients' oedipal phantasies are combined with unconscious sexual satisfaction from the asymmetric conception of time. When this sexual satisfaction is analyzed, they might expose the oedipal phantasies founded on the symmetric conception of time.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1177/00030651241254314
Forrest Hamer
{"title":"Book Review: Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year","authors":"Forrest Hamer","doi":"10.1177/00030651241254314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241254314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141159535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651241238394
Richard Russo
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Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651231223961
Anne Erreich
The author cites the prominence of theories that locate serious adult psychopathology in the preverbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience. The work of two such authors, H. Levine and D. B. Stern, is briefly considered. The frame of reference for this investigation is that clinical and academic research findings are highly relevant to psychoanalytic theorizing. It is argued that when such findings are considered, a view of the infant with “primordial and unrepresented” states of mind has little evidence to support it. In fact, research findings summarized herein point to an opposite view: that of the “competent infant,” one with highly accurate perceptual discrimination capacities and an innate ability to register and represent subjective experience in both procedural and declarative memory, even prenatally. Given the infant’s competencies, it seems implausible to hold that representational deficits are at the heart of serious adult psychopathology, which is instead seen to be the result of defensive maneuvers against unknowable and unspeakable truth rather than the absence of a preverbal representational capacity. Current research findings seem to pose a significant challenge for psychoanalytic theories that espouse “primitive mental states”; “unrepresented,” “unformulated,” or “unsymbolized” experience; or “nonconscious” states.
作者引述了一些理论,这些理论将严重的成人精神病理学归因于前语言婴儿无法表述或表现创伤经历。本文简要介绍了 H. Levine 和 D. B. Stern 这两位作者的研究成果。这项研究的参考框架是,临床和学术研究结果与精神分析理论高度相关。本文认为,如果考虑到这些研究成果,那么婴儿具有 "原始和无表征 "心智状态的观点就没有什么证据支持了。事实上,本文总结的研究结果表明了一种相反的观点:即 "有能力的婴儿",这种婴儿具有高度准确的感知辨别能力,甚至在出生前就具有在程序性记忆和陈述性记忆中记录和表征主观经验的先天能力。鉴于婴儿的能力,认为表象缺陷是严重成人心理病理学的核心似乎是不可信的,而成人心理病理学被认为是对不可知和不可说的真相的防御手段的结果,而不是缺乏前语言表象能力的结果。目前的研究结果似乎对精神分析理论提出了重大挑战,这些理论主张 "原始心理状态"、"无表征"、"无形式 "或 "无符号化 "的经验,或 "非意识 "状态。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651241231224
Anne Erreich
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Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651231224703
Stephen B. Bernstein
The educational and clinical effects of the process of case writing during analytic training have not been extensively studied, even though the case report, as a product, has prompted attempts to make it a more revealing and accurate document. Countertransference experiences during an analysis can constrain both the candidate’s writing and the analytic work, while examining them during the writing process can deepen the candidate’s analytic work. Three overlapping resistances to the writing, and their underlying anxieties, are described. These are publication resistances: concerns about the anticipated reception of the candidate’s work by potentially critical readers; transference resistances: feelings toward the analytic institute that requires the writing; and countertransference or reimmersion resistances: fears of reawakening reactions from the analysis. These can interfere with finding a safe internal space in which to write. Examples are given of writing through of these resistances during case supervision, resulting in more open writing and in a deepening of the analytic work. As the case writing process can have direct and potentially profound effects on the candidate’s current and future analytic work, it is proposed that the process of case writing is a fourth pillar of analytic training, in addition to the candidate’s personal analysis, case supervision, and didactic seminars.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651241231222
Donnel B. Stern
{"title":"Commentary: The Role of the Theory of Unformulated Experience in Anne Erreich’s “The Innate Capacity for the Representation of Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind Is Neither Primitive nor Prerepresentational”","authors":"Donnel B. Stern","doi":"10.1177/00030651241231222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241231222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140953971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651241232226
Howard B. Levine
{"title":"About Your Next Patient: A Response to Anne Erreich","authors":"Howard B. Levine","doi":"10.1177/00030651241232226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241232226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/00030651241238406
Kerry Malawista
{"title":"Creative Essay Section: Introduction","authors":"Kerry Malawista","doi":"10.1177/00030651241238406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651241238406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}