Fred L Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred L Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred L |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | 4100 Spring Valley Road, Suite 511Dallas, TX 75244USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8868-8900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writings and Readings of the Pandemic
A pandemic's reach is broad, deep, layered-both as an infectious agent and as the psychological force that will be explored by the author in this paper. The disorder it creates and the sorrow it leaves in its wake can be found in traces of its existence that remain in written works generated in the time after the pandemic is thought to be over. The author draws from creative texts by imaginative writers and Freud written in the period after the 1…
As I Write
Becoming of Use as an Analyst
Every analysis that becomes generative must be an original experience, in both senses of the word: an experience that reaches into the origins of the emotional life of the analysand and one that creates something entirely new. If the analysis goes well enough, these efforts lead the analysand to feel the oldness and newness to be an integrated whole. Analysands who have experienced an absence of intimate emotional connection early in life especia…
Mutuality, Recognition, and the Self
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space Fred L. Griffin (bio) And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me . . . this new sensation …
Constructing Ernest Jones
Notes1. Maddox indicates that letters from Jones’s archive at the Institute of Psychoanalysis “are dramatic testimony to the powerful effect that Jones had on many women ... In 1919 one of his smitten analysands, later his colleague, Joan Riviere, accused Jones of knowing that he was ‘irresistible to women’” (p. 4). Apparently, Jones’s appeal reaches beyond the grave. For Maddox’s closing sentence in the Introduction reads: “I must confess that, …
Teaching Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature
A literary form created by an imaginative writer captures something of the way the author shapes emotional experience and psychologically engages with it. The manner in which experience is created and contained in an imaginative literary text has much in common with the way experience is generated and worked with in the psychoanalytic situation. The author describes a clinical experience in which there was a collapse of the analytic (imaginative)…
The Fortunate Physician
John Berger's book A Fortunate Man describes the life of a country doctor, John Sassall, who, through thoughtful work with patients and dedicated self-inquiry, creates a set of circumstances that enable him to learn from his experiences with his patients. Not only does he learn how to be a more skillful clinician but through the physician-patient relationship he also learns more about himself. The author explores A Fortunate Man from the vantage …
One Form of Self-Analysis
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalysts have discovered media through which they may achieve a self-analytic experience (for example, by use of dreams, fantasies, reveries, memories, and even visual images). Each of these media is a kind of "fiction" created by the analyst that provides an imaginative space where he or she may gain access to unconscious life. The author demonstrates how a generative self-analytic experience may be accomplished throu…
One Form of Self-Analysis
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalysts have discovered media through which they may achieve a self-analytic experience (for example, by use of dreams, fantasies, reveries, memories, and even visual images). Each of these media is a kind of "fiction" created by the analyst that provides an imaginative space where he or she may gain access to unconscious life. The author demonstrates how a generative self-analytic experience may be accomplished throu…
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature
A literary form created by an imaginative writer captures something of the way the author shapes emotional experience and psychologically engages with it. The manner in which experience is created and contained in an imaginative literary text has much in common with the way experience is generated and worked with in the psychoanalytic situation. The author describes a clinical experience in which there was a collapse of the analytic (imaginative)…
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space Fred L. Griffin (bio) And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me . . . this new sensation …
Writings and Readings of the Pandemic
A pandemic's reach is broad, deep, layered-both as an infectious agent and as the psychological force that will be explored by the author in this paper. The disorder it creates and the sorrow it leaves in its wake can be found in traces of its existence that remain in written works generated in the time after the pandemic is thought to be over. The author draws from creative texts by imaginative writers and Freud written in the period after the 1…
Constructing Ernest Jones
Notes1. Maddox indicates that letters from Jones’s archive at the Institute of Psychoanalysis “are dramatic testimony to the powerful effect that Jones had on many women ... In 1919 one of his smitten analysands, later his colleague, Joan Riviere, accused Jones of knowing that he was ‘irresistible to women’” (p. 4). Apparently, Jones’s appeal reaches beyond the grave. For Maddox’s closing sentence in the Introduction reads: “I must confess that, …
The Fortunate Physician
John Berger's book A Fortunate Man describes the life of a country doctor, John Sassall, who, through thoughtful work with patients and dedicated self-inquiry, creates a set of circumstances that enable him to learn from his experiences with his patients. Not only does he learn how to be a more skillful clinician but through the physician-patient relationship he also learns more about himself. The author explores A Fortunate Man from the vantage …
One Form of Self-Analysis
Beginning with Freud, psychoanalysts have discovered media through which they may achieve a self-analytic experience (for example, by use of dreams, fantasies, reveries, memories, and even visual images). Each of these media is a kind of "fiction" created by the analyst that provides an imaginative space where he or she may gain access to unconscious life. The author demonstrates how a generative self-analytic experience may be accomplished throu…
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature
A literary form created by an imaginative writer captures something of the way the author shapes emotional experience and psychologically engages with it. The manner in which experience is created and contained in an imaginative literary text has much in common with the way experience is generated and worked with in the psychoanalytic situation. The author describes a clinical experience in which there was a collapse of the analytic (imaginative)…
Teaching Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Constructing Ernest Jones
Notes1. Maddox indicates that letters from Jones’s archive at the Institute of Psychoanalysis “are dramatic testimony to the powerful effect that Jones had on many women ... In 1919 one of his smitten analysands, later his colleague, Joan Riviere, accused Jones of knowing that he was ‘irresistible to women’” (p. 4). Apparently, Jones’s appeal reaches beyond the grave. For Maddox’s closing sentence in the Introduction reads: “I must confess that, …
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space
In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space Fred L. Griffin (bio) And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me . . . this new sensation …
Mutuality, Recognition, and the Self
Becoming of Use as an Analyst
Every analysis that becomes generative must be an original experience, in both senses of the word: an experience that reaches into the origins of the emotional life of the analysand and one that creates something entirely new. If the analysis goes well enough, these efforts lead the analysand to feel the oldness and newness to be an integrated whole. Analysands who have experienced an absence of intimate emotional connection early in life especia…
Writings and Readings of the Pandemic
A pandemic's reach is broad, deep, layered-both as an infectious agent and as the psychological force that will be explored by the author in this paper. The disorder it creates and the sorrow it leaves in its wake can be found in traces of its existence that remain in written works generated in the time after the pandemic is thought to be over. The author draws from creative texts by imaginative writers and Freud written in the period after the 1…
As I Write
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