Milton Viederman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milton Viederman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milton |
| FAMILY NAME | Viederman |
| SIGNATURE | VIEDERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10021 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Wild Strawberries and Change in the Context of Crisis
The essay examines the potential for character change in the context of crisis that takes place in a facilitating environment as revealed in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberrries, offering a model for understanding the dynamic ingredients of personality change during crisis both in a work of art and in its creator. The essay explores how the film represents Bergman’s effort to master and resolve conflict with his parents, particularly with his rigi…
Viederman on Reconstruction and Veridicality
Case Study
AM, an eighty-year-old woman, is brought by ambulance to emergency room after an apparent suicide attempt. She was discovered by her neighbors, who have tried to look after her since her husband died three years ago. They became concerned when she did not answer her phone, and when they went to investigate, they found her unconscious on floor next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills. A suicide note was left on dining room table. Alarmed, neighbo…
Metaphor and Meaning in Conversion Disorder
The concept of conversion disorder as a change in somatic function that symbolically represents an unconscious conflict is currently challenged in the literature. In this article, the author elaborates on the psychodynamic concept of conversion and defines its characteristics and mode of diagnosis. The usefulness of this approach is demonstrated in a detailed case presentation of a brief, active psychodynamic psychotherapy of six sessions that le…
An Artist’s Defense Against the Fear of Loss of Creativity Toward the End of Life
A creative artist in his mid-sixties had a strong desire to own and carry with him a drawing by Picasso--a self-portrait done three days before his death. The drawing created a sense of calm in the patient, such as had never occurred before with the possession of an object. An apparent preoccupation with death might have obscured the primary concern of the artist, which was about the loss of creative power, and it was for this reason that he want…
The Reconstruction of a Repressed Sexual Molestation Fifty Years Later
The current public concern about childhood molestation and abuse has fueled the debate in psychoanalysis about historical versus narrative truth, a subject that has implicitly and explicitly been an important theme since the origin of psychoanalysis. The evocation of false memories by suggestion has had significant social consequences. This raises important questions about the role of real trauma as contrasted with fantasy in the genesis of psych…
Hierarchical Concepts in Psychoanalysis
Edvard Munch
The Uses of the Past and the Actualization of a Family Romance
This paper elaborates an aspect of the therapeutic experience of analysis that pertains to the examination of the past as it influences a patient's view of his self-worth and relationship to the world. It is complementary to the usual view of psychoanalytic process that involves analysis of transference resistance, revelation of transference, and the discovery of its genetic roots. I propose an additional therapeutic aspect of the reexperience of…
Le Psychanalyste et le Vieillard
An Unusual Relationship
Picasso and Matisse renewed their relationship in 1946 as the aging Matisse approached death. Picasso, ordinarily contemptuous of others and indifferent to their needs, revealed a markedly different attitude toward Matisse, whom he admired and whose affection and approbation he sought. The roots of Picasso's attitude are traced to his morbid concern about bodily deterioration and fear of death. Matisse, apparently serene in his confrontation with…
The Real Person of the Analyst and his Role in the Process of “Psychoanalytic Cure
This paper focuses on the real relationship with the analyst in the psychoanalytic situation as an aspect of the therapeutic process that leads to change. The role of free association, clarification, and interpretation of the transference are taken for granted as major activities of the analyst, and the real relationship with him is seen as a complementary but important ingredient for change, In particular, his emotional availability determines t…
René Magritte
René Magritte was profoundly influenced in his painterly style and in the content of many of his paintings by his mother's suicide when he was fourteen. This paper explores the influence of this traumatic event on his work. My thesis is that the nighttime suicide of Magritte's mother by drowning: (1) had a profound impact on the form and style of his paintings; (2) his paintings represented an effort, mostly successful, to contain and master thro…
Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient
Monica
The Influence of the Person of the Analyst on Structural Change
This paper attempts to demonstrate how values and attitudes of the analyst are inevitably communicated through the interpretative process and how they lead to structural change. Details of the analysis of a woman with a defective feminine self-representation are presented. A transference fantasy of the analyst's wife led to a fantasied ideal object with subsequent identification and modification of structure
Case Studies in Bioethics
The Real Person of the Analyst and his Role in the Process of “Psychoanalytic Cure
This paper focuses on the real relationship with the analyst in the psychoanalytic situation as an aspect of the therapeutic process that leads to change. The role of free association, clarification, and interpretation of the transference are taken for granted as major activities of the analyst, and the real relationship with him is seen as a complementary but important ingredient for change, In particular, his emotional availability determines t…
Monica
The Reconstruction of a Repressed Sexual Molestation Fifty Years Later
The current public concern about childhood molestation and abuse has fueled the debate in psychoanalysis about historical versus narrative truth, a subject that has implicitly and explicitly been an important theme since the origin of psychoanalysis. The evocation of false memories by suggestion has had significant social consequences. This raises important questions about the role of real trauma as contrasted with fantasy in the genesis of psych…
The Influence of the Person of the Analyst on Structural Change
This paper attempts to demonstrate how values and attitudes of the analyst are inevitably communicated through the interpretative process and how they lead to structural change. Details of the analysis of a woman with a defective feminine self-representation are presented. A transference fantasy of the analyst's wife led to a fantasied ideal object with subsequent identification and modification of structure
The Uses of the Past and the Actualization of a Family Romance
This paper elaborates an aspect of the therapeutic experience of analysis that pertains to the examination of the past as it influences a patient's view of his self-worth and relationship to the world. It is complementary to the usual view of psychoanalytic process that involves analysis of transference resistance, revelation of transference, and the discovery of its genetic roots. I propose an additional therapeutic aspect of the reexperience of…
An Unusual Relationship
Picasso and Matisse renewed their relationship in 1946 as the aging Matisse approached death. Picasso, ordinarily contemptuous of others and indifferent to their needs, revealed a markedly different attitude toward Matisse, whom he admired and whose affection and approbation he sought. The roots of Picasso's attitude are traced to his morbid concern about bodily deterioration and fear of death. Matisse, apparently serene in his confrontation with…
René Magritte
René Magritte was profoundly influenced in his painterly style and in the content of many of his paintings by his mother's suicide when he was fourteen. This paper explores the influence of this traumatic event on his work. My thesis is that the nighttime suicide of Magritte's mother by drowning: (1) had a profound impact on the form and style of his paintings; (2) his paintings represented an effort, mostly successful, to contain and master thro…
An Artist’s Defense Against the Fear of Loss of Creativity Toward the End of Life
A creative artist in his mid-sixties had a strong desire to own and carry with him a drawing by Picasso--a self-portrait done three days before his death. The drawing created a sense of calm in the patient, such as had never occurred before with the possession of an object. An apparent preoccupation with death might have obscured the primary concern of the artist, which was about the loss of creative power, and it was for this reason that he want…
Case Studies in Bioethics
The Influence of the Person of the Analyst on Structural Change
This paper attempts to demonstrate how values and attitudes of the analyst are inevitably communicated through the interpretative process and how they lead to structural change. Details of the analysis of a woman with a defective feminine self-representation are presented. A transference fantasy of the analyst's wife led to a fantasied ideal object with subsequent identification and modification of structure
Monica
Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient
René Magritte
René Magritte was profoundly influenced in his painterly style and in the content of many of his paintings by his mother's suicide when he was fourteen. This paper explores the influence of this traumatic event on his work. My thesis is that the nighttime suicide of Magritte's mother by drowning: (1) had a profound impact on the form and style of his paintings; (2) his paintings represented an effort, mostly successful, to contain and master thro…
The Real Person of the Analyst and his Role in the Process of “Psychoanalytic Cure
This paper focuses on the real relationship with the analyst in the psychoanalytic situation as an aspect of the therapeutic process that leads to change. The role of free association, clarification, and interpretation of the transference are taken for granted as major activities of the analyst, and the real relationship with him is seen as a complementary but important ingredient for change, In particular, his emotional availability determines t…
An Unusual Relationship
Picasso and Matisse renewed their relationship in 1946 as the aging Matisse approached death. Picasso, ordinarily contemptuous of others and indifferent to their needs, revealed a markedly different attitude toward Matisse, whom he admired and whose affection and approbation he sought. The roots of Picasso's attitude are traced to his morbid concern about bodily deterioration and fear of death. Matisse, apparently serene in his confrontation with…
Edvard Munch
The Uses of the Past and the Actualization of a Family Romance
This paper elaborates an aspect of the therapeutic experience of analysis that pertains to the examination of the past as it influences a patient's view of his self-worth and relationship to the world. It is complementary to the usual view of psychoanalytic process that involves analysis of transference resistance, revelation of transference, and the discovery of its genetic roots. I propose an additional therapeutic aspect of the reexperience of…
Le Psychanalyste et le Vieillard
Case Study
AM, an eighty-year-old woman, is brought by ambulance to emergency room after an apparent suicide attempt. She was discovered by her neighbors, who have tried to look after her since her husband died three years ago. They became concerned when she did not answer her phone, and when they went to investigate, they found her unconscious on floor next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills. A suicide note was left on dining room table. Alarmed, neighbo…
Metaphor and Meaning in Conversion Disorder
The concept of conversion disorder as a change in somatic function that symbolically represents an unconscious conflict is currently challenged in the literature. In this article, the author elaborates on the psychodynamic concept of conversion and defines its characteristics and mode of diagnosis. The usefulness of this approach is demonstrated in a detailed case presentation of a brief, active psychodynamic psychotherapy of six sessions that le…
An Artist’s Defense Against the Fear of Loss of Creativity Toward the End of Life
A creative artist in his mid-sixties had a strong desire to own and carry with him a drawing by Picasso--a self-portrait done three days before his death. The drawing created a sense of calm in the patient, such as had never occurred before with the possession of an object. An apparent preoccupation with death might have obscured the primary concern of the artist, which was about the loss of creative power, and it was for this reason that he want…
The Reconstruction of a Repressed Sexual Molestation Fifty Years Later
The current public concern about childhood molestation and abuse has fueled the debate in psychoanalysis about historical versus narrative truth, a subject that has implicitly and explicitly been an important theme since the origin of psychoanalysis. The evocation of false memories by suggestion has had significant social consequences. This raises important questions about the role of real trauma as contrasted with fantasy in the genesis of psych…
Hierarchical Concepts in Psychoanalysis
Viederman on Reconstruction and Veridicality
Wild Strawberries and Change in the Context of Crisis
The essay examines the potential for character change in the context of crisis that takes place in a facilitating environment as revealed in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberrries, offering a model for understanding the dynamic ingredients of personality change during crisis both in a work of art and in its creator. The essay explores how the film represents Bergman’s effort to master and resolve conflict with his parents, particularly with his rigi…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Unconscious mind (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)