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On patients’ unique self-knowledge
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In this paper, the authors suggest that patients contribute to analytic endeavors through a knowledge of their own unique ways of organizing their experience, of building an intersubjective space with significant others, of the type of life that they consider worth living, and primarily of their specific passions and yearnings.Abstract:
Patients contribute to analytic endeavors through a knowledge of their own unique ways of organizing their experience, of building an intersubjective space with significant others, of the type of life that they consider worth living, and primarily of their specific passions and yearnings. The more that therapists allow the patients’ unique self-knowledge to influence their therapeutic perceptions and decisions, the further they will advance patients’ status as co-experts working together with the therapist to create and formulate new, richer knowledge. In the present article, it is suggested that one of the main reasons why patients’ self-knowledge is excluded from the therapeutic dialogue is that the persuasive power of the therapists’ rich and deep knowledge challenges the patients’ self-authority. Through an illustrative vignette, therapists are recommended to use a metacommunication intervention to restore the balance that has been undermined between the therapist’s authority and the patient’s...read more
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Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis: (1998)
Peter Fonagy,Mary Target +1 more
TL;DR: The interface of empirical work with child psychoanalysis at the Anna Freud Centre is part of the tradition of systematic study and research pioneered over many years by Anna Freud and her colleagues.
The rooting of the mind in the body: New links between attachment theory and pscyhoanalytic thought
TL;DR: A brief review of the psychoanalytic literature as it concerns attachment theory and research as mentioned in this paper demonstrates an increasing interest in attachment theory within psychoanalysis and the clinical and research implications of these ideas are discussed.
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Playing and Reality
TL;DR: Winnicott is concerned with the springs of imaginative living and of cultural experience in every sense, with whatever determines an individual's capacity to live creatively and to find life worth living as mentioned in this paper.
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Les passions de l'ame: on obsessive and harmonious passion.
Robert J. Vallerand,Céline M. Blanchard,Geneviève A. Mageau,Richard Koestner,Catherine F. Ratelle,Maude Léonard,Marylène Gagné,Josée Marsolais +7 more
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Attention and Interpretation
TL;DR: Bion's central thesis is that for the study of people, whether individually or in groups, a cardinal requisite is accurate observation, accompanied by accurate appreciation and formulation of the observations so made as mentioned in this paper.
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Competence in the context of adversity: pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence.
TL;DR: Results suggest that IQ and parenting scores are markers of fundamental adaptational systems that protect child development in the context of severe adversity.
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The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
TL;DR: The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment as discussed by the authors is a collection of published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child development during the period 1957-1963, with a main theme of the carrying back of the application of Freud's theories to infancy.