John Rosegrant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Rosegrant |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosegrant |
| SIGNATURE | ROSEGRANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A note about the special issue in honor of Sheldon Bach
The monsters in-between
The Northern Suburbs Seem to be Quite Frequently Afflicted by Raging Elephants
Central to the effect of Beatrix Potter's tales is her talent at creating fluidity in the boundary between human and animal identities, manifested by her characters' clothing, behavior, and conflicts, as well as by her styles of drawing and writing. This talent flowed from Potter's developmental experience of several jolts to her own identity while her deep connection to animals remained a lifelong constant. The fluidity she depicts between human…
"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness
"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness John Rosegrant (bio) Freud's paper contains two insights into creativity that I find especially important. One proposes an answer to the question of how artists create the content and form of their works, a question that Freud announces in his first sentence as his main concern: We laymen have always been intensely curious to know [...] from what sources that strange being, …
Technologically altered reality inside the therapist's office
Why Bion? Why Jung? For That Matter, Why Freud
Bion and Jung share both a significant disjunction from reflecting on personal experience, and a commitment to connecting with a higher truth outside of personal experience; in this they contrast with the Freudian standpoint that fully engages with reflecting on personal experience, and that considers efforts to connect to a higher truth as themselves usefully thought about in terms of their personal meaning. In these aspects of their work, Bion …
Three psychoanalytic realities
Romantic Fantasies and Psychotropic Medication
The Deathly Hallows
The enormous popularity of the Harry Potter books points to the deep resonance readers feel with the psychological issues they bring to life. Three developmental issues provide central themes: the necessity for partial disenchantment and increasing attunement to reality, while retaining a capacity for wonder; repudiation or endorsement of the narcissistic solution to life’s difficulties; and aggression and castration fantasies while growing into …
The Name of the Helper
The fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin is studied in conjunction with related tales to provide a fuller understanding of its meaning than previous studies have done. The content of these tales depicts ambivalence about childhood magic and ambivalence about adult reality, which are uneasily resolved by eliminating magic and dwelling in a disenchanted world. Enchantment is retained formally in the telling of the story. To the extent that transference is…
The Therapeutic Effects of the Free-Associative State of Consciousness
Free association is therapeutically helpful in the regulation of states of consciousness. A person who free-associates enters a particular state of consciousness characterized by increased subjective self-awareness and disregard for reality, together with implicit pulls for objective self-awareness and reality adherence. Free association facilitates the patient's learning to integrate and to shift flexibly among points on these dimensions. Tensio…
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment.
There are two broad alternative understandings of the diagnosis borderline: a clearly delineated category and a vague, approximately defined location on a continuum of psychopathology. In this article, I review publications on projective testing of borderlines to help determine which way of using the diagnosis is more helpful. The data show that although borderlines can be distinguished as a group from neurotics and schizophrenics, the difference…
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression
Contributions to Psychohistory
Playboy centerfolds were assumed to represent cultural images of women. Greater numbers of fetish symbols were strongly associated with greater anatomical femaleness in centerfolds, supporting the psychoanalytic hypothesis that fetishes devalue women to alleviate the anxiety aroused by anatomical femaleness. A learning theory explanation of fetishes was not supported. Anatomical femaleness of models, measured by bust, hip, and waist size, decreas…
Brief dynamic psychotherapy in community mental health settings
The Impact of Set and Setting on Religious Experience in Nature
The effects of set and setting in determining whether or not persons in wilderness solitude had religious experiences were investigated. After persons returned from three days in wilderness solitude, reports were obtained on the following types of religious experience: 1) mystical experience, 2) meaningful experience, and 3) whether persons had been in the state of relating to nature more or less communally. Three set factors were included-1) tra…
The Therapeutic Effects of the Free-Associative State of Consciousness
Free association is therapeutically helpful in the regulation of states of consciousness. A person who free-associates enters a particular state of consciousness characterized by increased subjective self-awareness and disregard for reality, together with implicit pulls for objective self-awareness and reality adherence. Free association facilitates the patient's learning to integrate and to shift flexibly among points on these dimensions. Tensio…
The Deathly Hallows
The enormous popularity of the Harry Potter books points to the deep resonance readers feel with the psychological issues they bring to life. Three developmental issues provide central themes: the necessity for partial disenchantment and increasing attunement to reality, while retaining a capacity for wonder; repudiation or endorsement of the narcissistic solution to life’s difficulties; and aggression and castration fantasies while growing into …
The Impact of Set and Setting on Religious Experience in Nature
The effects of set and setting in determining whether or not persons in wilderness solitude had religious experiences were investigated. After persons returned from three days in wilderness solitude, reports were obtained on the following types of religious experience: 1) mystical experience, 2) meaningful experience, and 3) whether persons had been in the state of relating to nature more or less communally. Three set factors were included-1) tra…
Why Bion? Why Jung? For That Matter, Why Freud
Bion and Jung share both a significant disjunction from reflecting on personal experience, and a commitment to connecting with a higher truth outside of personal experience; in this they contrast with the Freudian standpoint that fully engages with reflecting on personal experience, and that considers efforts to connect to a higher truth as themselves usefully thought about in terms of their personal meaning. In these aspects of their work, Bion …
The Name of the Helper
The fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin is studied in conjunction with related tales to provide a fuller understanding of its meaning than previous studies have done. The content of these tales depicts ambivalence about childhood magic and ambivalence about adult reality, which are uneasily resolved by eliminating magic and dwelling in a disenchanted world. Enchantment is retained formally in the telling of the story. To the extent that transference is…
The Impact of Set and Setting on Religious Experience in Nature
The effects of set and setting in determining whether or not persons in wilderness solitude had religious experiences were investigated. After persons returned from three days in wilderness solitude, reports were obtained on the following types of religious experience: 1) mystical experience, 2) meaningful experience, and 3) whether persons had been in the state of relating to nature more or less communally. Three set factors were included-1) tra…
Brief dynamic psychotherapy in community mental health settings
Contributions to Psychohistory
Playboy centerfolds were assumed to represent cultural images of women. Greater numbers of fetish symbols were strongly associated with greater anatomical femaleness in centerfolds, supporting the psychoanalytic hypothesis that fetishes devalue women to alleviate the anxiety aroused by anatomical femaleness. A learning theory explanation of fetishes was not supported. Anatomical femaleness of models, measured by bust, hip, and waist size, decreas…
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression
A reconceptualization of adaptive regression
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment.
There are two broad alternative understandings of the diagnosis borderline: a clearly delineated category and a vague, approximately defined location on a continuum of psychopathology. In this article, I review publications on projective testing of borderlines to help determine which way of using the diagnosis is more helpful. The data show that although borderlines can be distinguished as a group from neurotics and schizophrenics, the difference…
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment
Borderline diagnosis in projective assessment
The Therapeutic Effects of the Free-Associative State of Consciousness
Free association is therapeutically helpful in the regulation of states of consciousness. A person who free-associates enters a particular state of consciousness characterized by increased subjective self-awareness and disregard for reality, together with implicit pulls for objective self-awareness and reality adherence. Free association facilitates the patient's learning to integrate and to shift flexibly among points on these dimensions. Tensio…
The Name of the Helper
The fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin is studied in conjunction with related tales to provide a fuller understanding of its meaning than previous studies have done. The content of these tales depicts ambivalence about childhood magic and ambivalence about adult reality, which are uneasily resolved by eliminating magic and dwelling in a disenchanted world. Enchantment is retained formally in the telling of the story. To the extent that transference is…
Romantic Fantasies and Psychotropic Medication
The Deathly Hallows
The enormous popularity of the Harry Potter books points to the deep resonance readers feel with the psychological issues they bring to life. Three developmental issues provide central themes: the necessity for partial disenchantment and increasing attunement to reality, while retaining a capacity for wonder; repudiation or endorsement of the narcissistic solution to life’s difficulties; and aggression and castration fantasies while growing into …
Three psychoanalytic realities
Technologically altered reality inside the therapist's office
Why Bion? Why Jung? For That Matter, Why Freud
Bion and Jung share both a significant disjunction from reflecting on personal experience, and a commitment to connecting with a higher truth outside of personal experience; in this they contrast with the Freudian standpoint that fully engages with reflecting on personal experience, and that considers efforts to connect to a higher truth as themselves usefully thought about in terms of their personal meaning. In these aspects of their work, Bion …
"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness
"Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" and Creative States of Consciousness John Rosegrant (bio) Freud's paper contains two insights into creativity that I find especially important. One proposes an answer to the question of how artists create the content and form of their works, a question that Freud announces in his first sentence as his main concern: We laymen have always been intensely curious to know [...] from what sources that strange being, …
A note about the special issue in honor of Sheldon Bach
The monsters in-between
The Northern Suburbs Seem to be Quite Frequently Afflicted by Raging Elephants
Central to the effect of Beatrix Potter's tales is her talent at creating fluidity in the boundary between human and animal identities, manifested by her characters' clothing, behavior, and conflicts, as well as by her styles of drawing and writing. This talent flowed from Potter's developmental experience of several jolts to her own identity while her deep connection to animals remained a lifelong constant. The fluidity she depicts between human…
Psychology (19 works) · Psychoanalysis (17 works) · Psychotherapist (12 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (3 works) · Child Therapy and Development (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (3 works)