Showing papers in "International Forum of Psychoanalysis in 1997"
TL;DR: Lothane, Z. as discussed by the authors uncovered a hitherto unacknowledged interpersonal aspect in Freud: his implicit dyadic conception of symptom formation and interpretation, the competing claims of the object relation and the interpersonal schools notwithstanding.
Abstract: Lothane, Z. Freud and the Interpersonal. Int Forum Psychoanal, 1997;6: 175-184. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. The goal of this communication is to uncover a hitherto unacknowledged interpersonal aspect in Freud: his implicit dyadic conception of symptom formation and interpretation, the competing claims of the object relation and the interpersonal schools notwithstanding. It is argued that Freud delineated a number of models of symptom formation: a drive, dream, and a dyadic, or relational model. I have renamed the dyadic model the love model? This has implications concerning areas of consensus and conflict among the various psychoanalytic schools of thought.
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TL;DR: The Schism between Freud and Jung over Schreber: Its Implications for Method and Doctrine as mentioned in this paper was a seminal moment in the development of psychoanalytic theory and its application in psychoanalysis.
Abstract: Lothane Z. The Schism between Freud and Jung over Schreber: Its Implications for Method and Doctrine. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:103-115. Freud's interest in Schreber's famous Memoirswas not to examine Schreber, a life, in all its historicity, but to use the book as case material to illustrate a specific theory he had formulated in 1908: the causal connection between repressed homosexual libido and the paranoid syndrome. While of undoubted heuristic value, this causal connection has not stood the test of time as a universal clinical formulation. In singling out this combined drive and developmental explanatory theory, Freud left untapped many descriptive, diagnostic and dynamic aspects in the story of Schreber. This formulation also illustrates the perennial tension in psychoanalysis between the breadth of method and the narrowness of theory, or doctrine. Whereas method addresses such general issues as the creation of meaning in health and disease, of meaning as mediated by language, memory, per...
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TL;DR: Muhlleitner et al. as discussed by the authors studied the composition and structure of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society during its existence (1902 to 1938).
Abstract: Muhlleitner E, Reichmayr J. Following freud in Vienna. The Psychological Wednesday Society and the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society 1902-1938. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:73-102. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. This study of the composition and structure of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society during its existence (1902 to 1938) is a contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement and an enlargement of the historiographical and empirical basis of psychoanalysis. Traditional opinions about the Wednesday Psychological Society and the Viennese Psychoanalytical Society which tend to be based on generalized observations about groups within the societies can be compared and corrected. The first chapter contains an overview of the development of the membership size: which persons were accepted in which year, the fluctuations of the membership size during this period. The following data on all 150 members is listed in the addendum to the text: first and las...
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TL;DR: Biancoli et al. as mentioned in this paper described Groddeck as the analyst of man's compulsion to symbolise, even if in doing so he remains an expression of late Romanticism with some aspects of irrationalism.
Abstract: Biancoli R., Georg Groddeck, the Psychoanalyst of Symbols. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:117-225. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. Groddeck is not a fully recognised part of the history of psychoanalysis. Several reasons induce us to rediscover his work. He is the analyst of man's compulsion to symbolise, even if in doing so he remains an expression of late Romanticism with some aspects of irrationalism. He opens a way of understanding the relationship between psyche and body through the original concept of the It. His psychotherapeutic practice offers themes of reflection to present-day psychoanalytic research. Many psychoanalysts refused Groddeck's unconventional and provocative activity and his declarations against science. Other psychoanalysts had friendly relations with him, particularly Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Fromm. They learnt deeply from his example of creative and independent thought and love of truth.
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TL;DR: Fried R. as discussed by the authors showed that Freud's critics were right in sensing that his explanation was only partial, none were able to decipher his secret, and he did not succeed in analyzing it to his own satisfaction until 32 years after the event, in 1936.
Abstract: Fried R. Personal and Classical Myth; A Confrontation on the Acropolis. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:715. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. On his only visit to Greece, Sigmund Freud experienced brief but unsettling feelings of alienation as he stood on the Acropolis. Haunted by this experience, Freud did not succeed in analyzing it to his own satisfaction until 32 years after the event, in 1936. His interpretation, that he had felt guilt about superseding his father, did not convince most of the critics who have commented on it. The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that while Freud's critics were right in sensing that his explanation was only partial, none were able to decipher his secret. Prominent among the reasons for these repeated failures was lack of acquaintance with the Acropolis itself. Anyone standing where Freud stood becomes enabled to understand otherwise incomprehensible details of his essay. Seeing what Freud saw, however, still is not enough unless one also attempts to acquire some of...
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TL;DR: Chrzanowski as mentioned in this paper discusses the author's experiences working with Fromm as his supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and describes the founding of the IFPS in 1962.
Abstract: Chrzanowski G. Erich Fromm's Escape from Sigmund Freud. An Introduction to “Escape from Freedom”. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:185-189. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. After Erich Fromm died in 1980, the White Institute had a formal ceremony and published an issue of its quarterly journal devoted to his work. He had left papes behind, and since his death a permanent archive has been established by Rainer Funk in Germany. Fromm's home was in Locarno-Muralto, where he lived from 1967 until his death. This paper was delivered on the occasion of the dedication ceremony of a memorial plaque to him there. It discusses the author's experiences working with Fromm as his supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. It also describes the founding of the IFPS in 1962. It was founded by a small group of representatives of analytic societies: myself as representative of the William Alanson White Society, Erich Fromm as representative of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society, Werner Schwidder of the D.P.G., and C...
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TL;DR: Lindbom-Jakobson et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a framework of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy with severely traumatised patients and the institution, where the patients as well as staff can perform and repeat their intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts, nonadaptive defences and disturbed object relations.
Abstract: Lindbom-Jakobson M, Lindgren L. The Framework of Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychotherapy with Traumatised Patients and the Institution. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:217-224. ISSN 0803-706X. Psychotherapies performed at multidisciplinary institutions will be influenced by the ongoing dynamics and inevitable group processes of the institution. The difficulties of these processes become extremely hard to handle when the patient category is a severely traumatised one. The prerequisite of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, the illusion of the sealed room and fixed framework, gets disturbed by the information flow in an institution. The institutions for these patients tend to become stages on which the patients as well as staff can perform and repeat their intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts, non-adaptive defences and disturbed object relations. The predominant dynamic that arises around tortured refugees as a patient category is sado-masochistic relating.
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TL;DR: Drees et al. as discussed by the authors developed a prismatic mood-oriented Balint group to resolve chaotic, panic, psychotic and traumatic experiences, which as a source of team conflicts have blocked communications between doctors, nursing staff and patients.
Abstract: Drees A. Mood-Oriented Prismatic Baht-groups with victims of Torture. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:225-230. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. Prismatic Balint groups are a further development of classical Balint groups in form of a mood oriented sensory-metaphorical process. The group method enables resolving of chaotic, panic, psychotic and traumatic experiences, which as a source of team conflicts have blocked communications between doctors, nursing staff and patients. A prismatic mood oriented Balint-group remains fully functional within an institution with participants from different occupational groups and hierarchy levels, as both role conflicts and relationship conflicts are defocused prismatically by mood orientation. The theory of poetic communication as well as the violence virus hypothesis are discussed. Experience shows that torture and rape victims frequently seek to suppress the experiences they have suffered and that they thereby infect and paralyse their intrapsychic structures, blocking ...
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TL;DR: In this article, Gragra L. Grafa et al. explored the relationship between myth and delusion and the difference between them is related to open and closed states of mind, where the myth has the creative potential of flexible and open symbolisations while the delusion is marked by its symbolic poverty and rigid structure.
Abstract: Igra L. Myth or Delusion? An Exploration of Open and Closed States of Mind. In Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:25-31. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The relationship between myth and delusion and the difference between them is related to open and closed states of mind. While the myth has the creative potential of flexible and open symbolisations the delusion is marked by its symbolic poverty and rigid structure. These issues are discussed in relation to clinical material concerning a psychotic patient and his delusions. Countertransference played a crucial role in the development of the analyst's understanding of the process. The interchange between Oedipus and Teiresias in the Oedipus myth is used as a further illustration of how a personality can fall victim to a closed state of mind. The closed state of mind and the delusion are characterised by omnipotence and hatred of life. Finally an example of this universal conflict between destructive omnipotence on the one hand and love and joyful concern on the o...
TL;DR: Hoffmann et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed the new German edition of selected papers of Ludwig Binswanger and gave an overview of his life and work and expressed his critical opinion of the editors of the selected papers.
Abstract: Hoffmann K. Ludwig Binswanger's Collected Papers-Introduction and Critical Remarks. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6: 191-201. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. Reviewing the new German edition of selected papers of Ludwig Binswanger, an overview of Binswanger's life and work is given. Deeply rooted in a psychiatric sanatorium tradition established in the nineteenth century by his grandfather, Binswanger sought contact with Bleuler, Jung and Freud, and tried to treat his severely ill patients with individual psychoanalysis. In addition, the therapeutic milieu always played a great role in his work and thinking. Binswanger's experiences with psychotic patients lead him to a philosophical, existential view of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Moving beyond Freud, he dealt with psychotic phenomena and maintained that paranoia, mania and depression can be treated by psychotherapy if the therapist exposes himself in an existential manner with the patient. The author expresses his critical opinion of the editors of t...
TL;DR: Sjodin C, Rosmark-Calltorp E, Beck-Friis J, Lagerlof S A Project for Peer Review of Four Practices Specialising in Psychoanalysis as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Sjodin C, Rosmark-Calltorp E, Beck-Friis J, Lagerlof S A Project for Peer Review of Four Practices Specialising in Psychoanalysis. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:237–240. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. Th...
TL;DR: Siirala M. as discussed by the authors discusses the basic rule for psychoanalytic therapy discovered by Sigmund Freud: Free Association-A Program against Hubris. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:33-39.
Abstract: Siirala M. The of Man's Fall and the Basic Rule for Psychoanalytic Therapy Discovered by Sigmund Freud: Free Association-A Program against Hubris. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:33-39. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The title contains the thesis of the paper. Hubris is here: the godlike position of knowing good and evid. The mythical story about man's self-estrangement, as it is told in the biblical canon about three thousand years ago, depicts more a rise than a fall, as it entails a seizure of the throne of the one and absolute “Thou”. On good grounds that myth can be regarded as a particularly universal instance of man's self- and existence interpretation. In any case it seems obvious that the basic rule, as it implies giving voting right to everything announcing itself in man, even and especially to all that is defying his “already-knowing”, his open or latent judgements, is of crucial value on his way towards an authentic wholeness as a person. Consequences for the conception of not only therapeuti...
TL;DR: Gojman de Millan as mentioned in this paper showed how an open recognition of the social conditions of both participants in a treatment process may enrich the analyst's understanding of the transference-countertransference dynamics.
Abstract: Gojman de Millan S. A Socioeconomic Dimension Of Therapeutic Relationship. The Analyst's Perspective. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:241—249. Stockholm. ISSN 0808-706X. Two clinical vignettes are described. I wish to show how much an open recognition of the social conditions of both participants in a treatment process may enrich the analyst's understanding of the transference-countertransference dynamics. I claim that although analysts intuitively integrate this aspect of the therapeutic relationship they commonly do it without a specific formulation. In an explicit and systematic manner, Fromm emphasized the social dimensions of human experience. His background knowledge of the social sciences framed his therapeutic practice. The clinical implications which derive from this perspective will be illustrated. The clinical material which I present shows how today's psychoanalytic attention to the dynamic interaction between analyst and patient while it enables us to deal with the complexity and differe...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make some reflections on the notion of identity itself from the psychoanalytical point of view, which leads to a central question which is to know if one is born a boy or a girl, or if one becomes one.
Abstract: ceccarelle P. Transsexualim, Sex and Gender, Int Psychoanal 1997;6:141. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. How does the body into which a baby is born become a sexual body? Do the anatomical characteristics of masculine or feminine constitute guarantee for a subject to say that he/she is a man or a woman? The passage from identifications to identity is a most complex one. To try to clarify this process the author starts by making some reflections on the notion of identity itself from the psychoanalytical point of view. This leads to a central question which is to know if one is born a boy or a girl, or if one becomes one. Working with the fundamental concept of primary identification and the distinction of sex and gender, the author shows, through a clinical vignette, that anatomy is no assurance for a construction of a feeling of gender identity according to the anatomical sex.
TL;DR: Conci et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the relationship between psychiatry and psychoanalytic research and social science, focusing on the work of H.S. Sullivan, who made psychoanalysis a major ingredient of psychiatry and social sciences.
Abstract: Conci, M. Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Sociology in the Work of H.S. Sullivan. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6: 127–135. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The author tries to illuminate H.S. Sullivan's complex professional identity. With E. Fromm he shared a basic humanistic orientation, and also the project of creating an interdisciplinary new science of man. This is the perspective he inherited from W.A. White, who tried to make psychoanalysis a major ingredient of psychiatry and social science. Sullivan's pioneer work with schizophrenic patients changed the prognosis of these patients, represented the basis of his interpersonal theory of psychiatry and of his collaboration with Chicago social science. Not only is the epistemological sophistication of his definition of psychiatrywhich includes the biological, intra- psychic, cultural and social dimensions-very relevant today, but so is the work he conducted, through the Washington School of Psychiatry (1936) and the journal Psychiatry (1938), with the a...
TL;DR: The interpersonal point of view regards memory as a function of current experiences; the field of interaction of primary importance as mentioned in this paper, and values which are learned in the process of growth are internalized as feelings, influence and are influenced by perceptions.
Abstract: Feiner A. Restlessness of the Spirit. Exposure, Loss, Rage and Salvation. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:157-166. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. The interpersonal tradition in psychoanalysis evolved out of the deterministic tradition. “Where it was, there I shall be” was revised to “Where I am, there it shall be”. The interpersonal point of view regards memory as a function of current experiences; the field of interaction of primary importance. Values, which are learned in the process of growth, are internalized as feelings, influence and are influenced by perceptions. Theri integration makes for self-definition. Under an aegis of safety, interpersonal analysis is made manifest by the scrutiny of feelings of irrelevance and dismissal which have colored self-definition. Since the interaction with the analyst is a recapitulation of the patient's content, the mutual addressing of where both patient and analyst are with each other makes the analysis manifest. This is the interpersonalist's valuation of the ...
TL;DR: Kocourkova et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the personal analysis and an unambiguous identification with this process are considered to be a basic experience in the formation of the psychoanalyst's identity.
Abstract: Kocourkova J. The Identity of the Psychoanalyst. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:137-140. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The conditions are examined, in which the professional identity of the psychoanalyst is created and expressed. The personal analysis and an unambiguous identification with this process are considered to be a basic experience in the formation of the psychoanalyst's identity. Personal experience of supervision is of the same importance. The psychoanalytic process is complicated by unresolved narcissistic problems of the psychoanalyst. The Kleinian concept of envy, which can make the positive identification with the analyst impossible, is mentioned. However, the concept of envy should be understood not only as a projective mechanism, but also as unconscious connotations of giving and receiving in the analytical relationship. Identity problems of psychoanalytical societies are also discussed, including the Czech Psychoanalytical Society.
TL;DR: Gabriel J, Beratis S. et al. as mentioned in this paper reported about the case of a patient with a traumatic childhood, who engaged in erotogenic masochistic behavior and intermittent depression combined with moral masochism.
Abstract: Gabriel J, Beratis S. Early Trauma in the Development of Masochism and Depression. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:231-236. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X. The association of psychic trauma to masochistic behavior, either erotogenic or moral, and to depression has been repeatedly ascertained in the psychoanalytic literature. The following report is about the case of a patient with a traumatic childhood, who engaged in erotogenic masochistic behavior and intermittent depression combined with moral masochism. The evolution of the case shows that whenever the patient was threatened by separation anxiety he resorted to erotogenic masochism so as to handle the trauma of separation and maintain his self integrity. On the other hand, when severe exogenous traumatic events such as actual loss of a significant other occurred, caused the erotogenic masochism to fail as a defense, the patient regressed to an immobilized narcissistic state, characterized by severe depressive symptomatology with moral masochistic elem...
TL;DR: ErErmann as mentioned in this paper, reading it as a myth, is the report of the overwhelming power of primitive narcissistic anger and of the necessity to bring the good into safety, so that it can survive violent grievance.
Abstract: Ermann G. The Transformation from Anger to Love in the Story of Noah. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6:17-23. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The Noah Story, reading it as myth, is the report of the overwhelming power of primitive narcissistic anger and of the necessity to bring the good into safety, so that it can survive violent grievance. It shows how grievance can be worked through in order to reach a new level of relationship, and in order to achieve the ability to assume care for others and hence to achieve reconcilation. Thus, the path which this myth attempts to redraw is that which leads from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position.