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Identification with the aggressor and the ‘normal traumas’: clinical implications
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Ferenczi's (1933) concept of identification with the aggressor has radical implications for our understanding of analytic technique and its very frequent occurrence also forces us to broaden our understanding on what constitutes trauma as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Ferenczi's (1933) surprisingly unknown concept of identification with the aggressor – an abuse victim's ‘eliminating’ her own subjectivity and ‘becoming’ precisely what an attacker needs her to be – has radical implications for our understanding of analytic technique Its very frequent occurrence also forces us to broaden our understanding of what constitutes trauma Ferenczi saw the experience of ‘traumatic aloneness’ or ‘emotional abandonment’ as the key element of trauma, since this is what enforces the traumatic responses of dissociation and identification with the aggressor Identification with the aggressor operates in the analytic relationship in both patient and analyst This has various consequences, including the structuring of the relationship through unconscious collusions – mutually coordinated, defensive identifications designed to help both participants feel secure This view of the analytic relationship has clinical implications in at least four areas: the understanding of the patient's frread more
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The relations between childhood maltreatment, shame, guilt, depression and suicidal ideation in inpatient adolescents.
Marcin Sekowski,Małgorzata Gambin,Andrzej Cudo,Malgorzata Wozniak-Prus,Francesca Penner,Peter Fonagy,Carla Sharp +6 more
TL;DR: The study provides novel information on the potential mechanisms underlying the association between childhood maltreatment and suicidal ideation in adolescents and suggests generalized guilt and/or shame could be possible targets for interventions for victims of some forms of maltreatment to reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal Ideation.
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Uncanny Communication and the Porous Mind
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the phenomenon of "uncanny" unconscious communication and the plausibility of telepathic interconnectivity between patient and therapist, and explore the potential clinical value of nurturing receptivity to this "frequency" of unconscious attunement.
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Jewish Self-Hatred: The Internalization of Prejudice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the etiology and psychodynamics of self-hatred in the Jewish people and explain why this form of selfhatred has been overlooked by psychotherapists.
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Ferenczi's Anticipation of the Traumatic Dimension of Language: A Meeting With Lacan
TL;DR: Ferenczi's later work uniquely explores the relationship between trauma and language as mentioned in this paper, and it anticipates Lacan's work on the traumatic dimension of language, which the French psychoanalyst referred to in his final theoretical production through the concept of Lalangue.
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Confusion of tongues between adults and the child
TL;DR: The Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of the confusion between adults and children in psychoanalytic work. But it does not consider children.
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The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression
TL;DR: Balint as discussed by the authors discusses the three areas of the mind, primary Narcissiscm, primary love and primary love, and the benign and the malignant forms of regression. But the focus of this paper is on the regression of the patient and his analyst.
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The clinical diary of Sándor Ferenczi
Sándor Ferenczi,Judith Dupont +1 more
TL;DR: In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sandor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community as discussed by the authors, and his diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy.
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Final contributions to the problems & methods of psycho-analysis
TL;DR: Ferenczi's final volume as discussed by the authors includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which he formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexuality, and the conflict between the languages of tenderness and passion.
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The repression and the return of bad objects (with special reference to the ‘war neuroses’)
TL;DR: In the later phases of Freud's thought, from a time which may be conveniently dated by the publication of The Ego and the Id, his attention was predominantly directed to the growth and the vicissitudes of the ego.