Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.4.551.21545
D. Bender, B. Farber, J. Geller
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.3.491.17297
L. Davidson
In the 1970s I became interested in the phenomenon of the growing popularity of fortune-telling and predictions. In an effort to try to understand what about this practice was so attractive to people, I visited several Hispanic Tarot card readers. Their practice of this ancient craft was combined with the practice of “Espiritismo,” which was heavily tainted with the use of Christian good and evil metaphors, which for me interfered with an objective evaluation of the psychological motivations of people seeking out such readers. Almost at once, I came to the conclusion that the Hispanic and Gypsy advisors saw mainly people in crisis, people who were anxious or overwhelmed by their life circumstances. Under these conditions the manipulation of the cards to give predictions of outcome seemed to me to be an anxiety-allaying transitional phenomenon between the reader and the client. The reader presented herself and was perceived as possessing special gifts of insight into the past, present, and future, immediate or distant. The feeling that special energies were working through her as well as the symbolism of the cards enabled both of them to create a psychologically and emotionally calm space in which to contemplate the problems and their proposed resolutions. In this creation of a transitional space the practice seemed to me to be very like psychotherapy. In addition, the need to control fate, destiny, or karma by one’s own correct or reworked thinking also bore a resemblance to psychoanalysis. Subsequently I tried to learn how to do reading for and by myself and discovered a wealth of writing about archetypal humanistic symbols and a philosophy of life’s developmental journey that dated back to biblical times. This article deals with how the rich variety of symbols engages the person who seeks such “self-help” into a contemplation of his or her own development as person—past, present, and future. This process allows
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.1.73.17194
R. Lijtmaer
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.2.195.17260
J. Jureidini
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.1.137.17189
F. Cournos
My article is a very personal one. It is based on my recently published memoir, City of One, which tells a story of parental death in childhood. I will use this opportunity to interweave some of the conflicting viewpoints on childhood mourning, both from psychoanalytic and nonpsychoanalytic writings, with my own experiences. My memoir touches on many of the themes that appear in the professional literature, and follows them from my earliest childhood memories through my life today. My first exposure to death came when I was three years old and my father was fatally stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage caused by an undiagnosed brain tumor. My half-brother was five, and my mother was two months pregnant with my younger sister. My father had been the sole wage earner, and had left little money. My mother’s parents moved in with us to help out with finances and child care. Two years later, my grandfather died suddenly, and shortly after that, my mother developed breast cancer. She underwent multiple surgeries and other disfiguring treatments, until she succumbed to lung metastases when I was eleven. Of the four adults who had raised me, now only my grandmother remained. Throughout this entire series of events, my mother and I maintained a pact of silence. As a child, I believed this protected us, and that we would simply fall apart and stop functioning if we discussed our experiences with illness and death, however obvious their impact on our lives. I quote from the memoir.
我的文章是非常私人的。它是根据我最近出版的回忆录《City of One》改编的,讲述了一个童年时父母去世的故事。我将利用这个机会,把精神分析和非精神分析著作中关于童年哀悼的一些相互矛盾的观点,与我自己的经历交织在一起。我的回忆录触及了许多出现在专业文献中的主题,并从我最早的童年记忆一直延续到我今天的生活。我第一次接触死亡是在我三岁的时候,当时我的父亲因一种未确诊的脑瘤导致脑出血而死亡。我同父异母的弟弟五岁,母亲怀了我妹妹两个月。父亲是家里唯一挣钱的人,几乎没有留下什么钱。我母亲的父母搬来和我们一起住,帮助我们分担经济和照顾孩子的费用。两年后,我的祖父突然去世了,不久之后,我的母亲患上了乳腺癌。她接受了多次手术和其他毁容治疗,直到我11岁时她死于肺转移。在抚养我长大的四个大人中,现在只剩下我的祖母了。在这一系列的事件中,我和母亲一直保持着沉默。当我还是个孩子的时候,我相信这能保护我们,如果我们讨论疾病和死亡的经历,不管它们对我们的生活有多么明显的影响,我们只会崩溃,停止运作。我引用回忆录中的话。
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.1.1.17192
M. Berger
This past summer, the Academy held a most successful and enjoyable joint meeting with the Italian Psychoanalytic society, OPIFER, at the beautiful resort of Sestri Levante on the Mediterranean coast. Those attending the meeting were privileged to view a videotape in which Dr. Milton Berger interviewed Dr. Silvano Arieti on the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. We are fortunate to have Dr. Berger allow us to print a typescript of the interview which was prepared by Alex Ingram, in consultation with his father, Dr. Douglas Ingram. Although the interview was conducted in 1979, we believe it continues to be relevant to the current practice of psychiatry and would be of interest to our readers.
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.1.17.17191
R. John
I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine; my name is Constance; I was Geffrey’s wife: young Arthur is my son and he is lost: I am not mad: I would to heaven I were! For then, ’tis like I should forget my son or madly think a babe of clouts were he: I am not mad: too well: too well I feel the different plague of each calamity.” Shakespeare, King John, Act III, Scene IV This quotation is a succinct, poignant, albeit poetical description of the point I am trying to make about schizophrenia in this article. Constance is depressed. She is not schizophrenic because she has a firm grasp of her own identity; she understands the loss she has suffered and she accepts and experiences her own feelings of grief as an understandable, although painful reaction to that loss. Furthermore, she does not numb her feelings of grief behind a wall of autistic denial, nor does she try to replace her lost son with some phantasied object. She experiences her loss realistically, as well as the painful feelings that accompany it. In this article I plan, by using a series of clinical vignettes, to illustrate how I learned from my clinical work with schizophrenic patients how they experience an autistic feelinglessness in place of profound feelings of grief and despair. It should be stressed that I am not making an argument against the current psychobiological theories of schizophrenia, nor am I making a contribution toward a particular etiological theory of this disorder. Instead, what I am trying to illustrate is that these individuals are human beings who are unable to experience or show their
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Pub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1521/JAAP.29.1.127.17193
Leah Davidson
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