Identity in the asphalt jungle
01 Dec 2004-International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Taylor & Francis Group)-Vol. 13, Iss: 4, pp 254-263
TL;DR: A study of 40 youngsters who live and work in the streets of Mexico City and who have abandoned their homes for significant periods of time is presented in this paper, with the aim of facilitating the access of these children to graphic arts, artistic creation and therapeutic listening.
Abstract: We present a study of 40 youngsters who live and work in the streets of Mexico City and who have abandoned their homes for significant periods of time They seek out their own means of survival from a very young age In many cases they have children of their own already as teenagers The Seminario de Sociopsicoanalisis was invited to take part in a project aimed at facilitating the access of these children to graphic arts, artistic creation and therapeutic listening This article presents our principal findings of the children's everyday life conditions, their work and their dreams, based on data obtained from social character questionnaires – with which therapeutic intervention in this project began Vignettes of two case studies are also presented The interviews were complemented by data gathered in weekly sessions attended by the youngsters on a voluntary bases The sessions attested to both the narcissistic, aggressive impulsiveness of these youngsters and the vital effort they make toward their own
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on attachment and social character of mothers and children as well as the systematic appraisal of the unconscious motivations in the individual's responses to the Social Interpretative Questionnaire are presented.
Abstract: A group of psychoanalysts led the Seminario de Sociopsicoanalisis to broaden their clinical perspective gained through working with patients in the setting of a private practice. In this paper we describe participatory action research initiated by a community. We started by interviewing impoverished and economically disadvantaged children, first from a miner's village and later on from a center for children living in the streets. A study on Attachment and Social Character of mothers and children as well as the systematic appraisal of the unconscious motivations in the individual's responses to the Social Interpretative Questionnaire are presented. We strive to bring the findings of our social character studies back to the communities themselves. Our purpose is to support or foster possibilities for initiating participatory community-based action projects, aimed at transforming the quality of life and to confront the difficulties and obstacles that emerge on the path to change; furthermore we hope that our research will help to stimulate the development of childcare health policies.
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Bowlby as discussed by the authors presenta una casuistica clinica singular in su articulo “Saber lo que se supone que no debemos saber and Sentir lo that se suende que no dobemos sentir”.
Abstract: John Bowlby presenta una casuistica clinica singular en su articulo “Saber lo que se supone que no debemos saber y Sentir lo que se supone que no debemos sentir” (Bowlby 1979). Los pacientes presentados eran adultos con sintomatologia diversa respecto a sus formas de relacion, que sufrieron perdidas tempranas. Solo la investigacion terapeutica cuidadosa les hizo descubrirse y reconocerse como testigos presentes en el suicidio de alguno de sus padres. Los sujetos recuperaron los recuerdos fragmentarios, por mucho tiempo reprimidos, de las escenas en las que estuvieron indudablemente presentes. Sorprendidos ellos mismos, encontraron en la investigacion terapeutica, los indicios de haber sido testigos de los tan dramaticos como secretos hechos (elementos que se pudieron confirmar con los testimonios de quienes participaron en su vida infantil temprana). Como ninos, hubo un momento en el que aceptaron, creyeron y endosaron las versiones amables pero distorsionadas de los acontecimientos sobre la muerte de sus respectivos progenitores, que les fueron impuestas por quienes los criaron, con el afan de protegerlos mitigando los hechos.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The role of attachment in personality development is discussed in this paper, where the origins of attachment theory are discussed and a discussion of the role of communication and attachment in the development of personality is discussed.
Abstract: * Caring for children * The origins of attachment theory * Psychoanalysis as art and science * Psychoanalysis as a natural science * Violence in the family * On knowing what you are not supposed to know and feeling what you are not supposed to feel * The role of attachment in personality development * Attachment, communication, and the therapeutic process * Developmental psychiatry comes of age
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TL;DR: The authors report on 40 families who broke this family pattern and found mechanisms for change used in these families included reliance on a broad network of resources, a degree of self-differentiation, an attitude of realistic optimism, and the ability to marshall extra resources to meet crisis situations.
Abstract: The tendency for the cycle of abusive and neglectful parenting to be transmitted across generations has been well documented. The authors report on 40 families who broke this family pattern. The mechanisms for change used in these families included reliance on a broad network of resources, a degree of self-differentiation, an attitude of realistic optimism, and the ability to marshall extra resources to meet crisis situations. The authors recommend further study of such exceptions and a more hopeful approach to the problem of abusive families.
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TL;DR: It is reported that a mother's aversion to tactual contact with the infant is stable over the first year of life, and that it is positively associated with rough handling of the infant and not associated with carly differences in infant cuddliness.
Abstract: Previously unexamined consequences of the ethological theory of attachment suggest that if an attachment figure rejects close body contact with an infant, the infant is placed in a conflict situation in which aggression, conflict behavior and avoidance are expected outcomes. In previous studies we have shown that a mother's rejection of contact with her infant is, as expected, highly associated with avoidance of the mother in stress (separation and reunion) situations. Here we report that a mother's aversion to tactual contact with the infant is stable over the first year of life, and that it is positively associated with rough handling of the infant. It is not associated with carly differences in infant cuddliness. In each of the three samples examined, the mother's aversion to contact with the infant is found positively associated with infant conflict behavior. A mother's aversion to contact between one week and three months of age is related positively to infant angry mood and acts of aggression between 9 and 12 months of age. The conflict situation created by the physically rejecting attachment figure is comparable to but distinguished from the well-known “double bind.”
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