James S Grotstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James S Grotstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | James S |
| FAMILY NAME | Grotstein |
| SIGNATURE | GROTSTEIN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Los Angeles City College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion’s Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis
Dreaming as a ‘curtain of illusion’: Revisiting the ‘royal road’ with Bion as our guide
One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and their latent meaning and theorized that dreams ultimately constituted wish-fulfillments originating from the activity of the pleasure principle. Bion, on the other hand, focuses more on the process of dre…
Projective trans identification’: An extension of the concept of projective identification
Questions about the concept of projective identification still persist. The author presents the following hypotheses: Klein's traditional view and Bion's extension and revision of it can be thought of as occupying a continuum in reverse. He postulates that Bion's concept of communicative intersubjective projective identification (which the author renames 'projective transidentification') is primary and inclusive of Klein's earlier unconscious, om…
Commentary on Dr. Riccardo Lombardi’s “Three Psychoanalytic Sessions”
The seventh servant: The implications of a truth drive in Bion's theory of ‘ O ’
Drawing upon Bion's published works on the subjects of truth, dreaming, alpha-function and transformations in 'O', the author independently postulates that there exists a 'truth instinctual drive' that subserves a truth principle, the latter of which is associated with the reality principle. Further, he suggests, following Bion's postulation, that 'alpha-function' and dreaming/phantasying constitute unconscious thinking processes and that they me…
Commentary on “Bion's Grid: A Tool for Transformation” by Marilyn Charles
Notes on Bion's “Memory and Desire”
Memory and desire, along with understanding and preconception, are to be abandoned (really, suspended) for the analyst to be ever open to unexpected emerging from the analysand's unconscious. The discipline that Bion suggests allows the analyst to be open to his/her own native feelings as an emotion-receptor and analytic instrument
The numinous and immanent nature of the psychoanalytic subject
In the Freudian and Kleinian conception of unconscious mental life, credence is given to the existence and functioning of peremptory instinctual drives as the putative causation of all mental life, yet they are denied an organization or a personality. It is especially when we come to the notion of how dreams are created or how the free associations of an analytic hour are orchestrated that we begin to wonder about the hidden order, the cryptic in…
Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness
An entirely new perspective on how emotions influence mental and physical health. The authors present recent thinking about the development and regulation of emotions, and argue that several common but difficult to treat psychiatric illnesses, including drug addictions, eating disorders, panic disorder and post traumatic stress disorders, are a consequence of an inability to regulate distressing emotions through mental processes. The book also ad…
Integrating One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies: Autochthony and Alterity in Counterpoint
The classical psychoanalytic concept of the one-person treatment model and its assumptions concerning psychic reality are compared with the contemporary two-person model, subsumed under the concept of "alterity" (otherness). The classical model of unconscious mental life is explored in terms of the principles of "autochthony" (signifying the fantasy that self and object are created entirely from and by the self) and "cosmogony" (an aspect of prim…
Klein's Archaic Oedipus Complex and Its Possible Relationship to the Myth of the Labyrinth: Notes on the Origin of Courage
The ancient Greek myth linking the images of the labyrinth and the Minotaur provides an allegory for Melanie Klein's conception of the archaic Oedipus complex as well as a vivid illustration of Winnicott's notions of object usage and the 'subjective object'. The labyrinth is suggestive of mother's body as the first area for an infant's exploration and putative sadistic conquest. The Minotaur, in turn, suggests the infant's unconscious phantasies …
Internal objects' or ‘chimerical monsters’: The demonic ‘third forms’ of the internal world
The concept of ‘object’ whether internal or external, is a hold‐over from the Enlightenment and from the positivistic certainty of nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century science, Its use in current psychoanalytic theory and practice is now obsolete because of the contributions of post‐modernism and their emphasis on subjectivity and relativity. In plate of the word ‘object’, the author favors a return to pre‐Enlightenment psychology in order to …
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory
The “Black Hole” as the Basic Psychotic Experience: Some Newer Psychoanalytic and Neuroscience Perspectives on Psychosis
The psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic disorders has had a long and complicated history because of the historic preference of psychoanalysis for neurotics. Nevertheless, it has survived the prejudice of psychoanalysts and empirical psychiatrists and now enters an interdisciplinary phase in which psychotic psychopathology is understood as primarily an emotional disorder, but one that must also be considered from the point of view of neurobiolog…
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update.
Les modifications nosographiques, la creation de nouvelles ecoles psychanalytiques et le developpement des recherches en neurobiologie obligent les psychanalystes a reformuler theoriquement et pratiquement le concept de schizophrenie. L'auteur le fait dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update
The Evolving and Shifting Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Projective trans identification’: An extension of the concept of projective identification
Questions about the concept of projective identification still persist. The author presents the following hypotheses: Klein's traditional view and Bion's extension and revision of it can be thought of as occupying a continuum in reverse. He postulates that Bion's concept of communicative intersubjective projective identification (which the author renames 'projective transidentification') is primary and inclusive of Klein's earlier unconscious, om…
The seventh servant: The implications of a truth drive in Bion's theory of ‘ O ’
Drawing upon Bion's published works on the subjects of truth, dreaming, alpha-function and transformations in 'O', the author independently postulates that there exists a 'truth instinctual drive' that subserves a truth principle, the latter of which is associated with the reality principle. Further, he suggests, following Bion's postulation, that 'alpha-function' and dreaming/phantasying constitute unconscious thinking processes and that they me…
Integrating One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies: Autochthony and Alterity in Counterpoint
The classical psychoanalytic concept of the one-person treatment model and its assumptions concerning psychic reality are compared with the contemporary two-person model, subsumed under the concept of "alterity" (otherness). The classical model of unconscious mental life is explored in terms of the principles of "autochthony" (signifying the fantasy that self and object are created entirely from and by the self) and "cosmogony" (an aspect of prim…
Dreaming as a ‘curtain of illusion’: Revisiting the ‘royal road’ with Bion as our guide
One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and their latent meaning and theorized that dreams ultimately constituted wish-fulfillments originating from the activity of the pleasure principle. Bion, on the other hand, focuses more on the process of dre…
Internal objects' or ‘chimerical monsters’: The demonic ‘third forms’ of the internal world
The concept of ‘object’ whether internal or external, is a hold‐over from the Enlightenment and from the positivistic certainty of nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century science, Its use in current psychoanalytic theory and practice is now obsolete because of the contributions of post‐modernism and their emphasis on subjectivity and relativity. In plate of the word ‘object’, the author favors a return to pre‐Enlightenment psychology in order to …
The numinous and immanent nature of the psychoanalytic subject
In the Freudian and Kleinian conception of unconscious mental life, credence is given to the existence and functioning of peremptory instinctual drives as the putative causation of all mental life, yet they are denied an organization or a personality. It is especially when we come to the notion of how dreams are created or how the free associations of an analytic hour are orchestrated that we begin to wonder about the hidden order, the cryptic in…
Klein's Archaic Oedipus Complex and Its Possible Relationship to the Myth of the Labyrinth: Notes on the Origin of Courage
The ancient Greek myth linking the images of the labyrinth and the Minotaur provides an allegory for Melanie Klein's conception of the archaic Oedipus complex as well as a vivid illustration of Winnicott's notions of object usage and the 'subjective object'. The labyrinth is suggestive of mother's body as the first area for an infant's exploration and putative sadistic conquest. The Minotaur, in turn, suggests the infant's unconscious phantasies …
The Evolving and Shifting Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update.
Les modifications nosographiques, la creation de nouvelles ecoles psychanalytiques et le developpement des recherches en neurobiologie obligent les psychanalystes a reformuler theoriquement et pratiquement le concept de schizophrenie. L'auteur le fait dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update
A revised psychoanalytic conception of schizophrenia: An interdisciplinary update
The “Black Hole” as the Basic Psychotic Experience: Some Newer Psychoanalytic and Neuroscience Perspectives on Psychosis
The psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic disorders has had a long and complicated history because of the historic preference of psychoanalysis for neurotics. Nevertheless, it has survived the prejudice of psychoanalysts and empirical psychiatrists and now enters an interdisciplinary phase in which psychotic psychopathology is understood as primarily an emotional disorder, but one that must also be considered from the point of view of neurobiolog…
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory
Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness
An entirely new perspective on how emotions influence mental and physical health. The authors present recent thinking about the development and regulation of emotions, and argue that several common but difficult to treat psychiatric illnesses, including drug addictions, eating disorders, panic disorder and post traumatic stress disorders, are a consequence of an inability to regulate distressing emotions through mental processes. The book also ad…
Integrating One-Person and Two-Person Psychologies: Autochthony and Alterity in Counterpoint
The classical psychoanalytic concept of the one-person treatment model and its assumptions concerning psychic reality are compared with the contemporary two-person model, subsumed under the concept of "alterity" (otherness). The classical model of unconscious mental life is explored in terms of the principles of "autochthony" (signifying the fantasy that self and object are created entirely from and by the self) and "cosmogony" (an aspect of prim…
Klein's Archaic Oedipus Complex and Its Possible Relationship to the Myth of the Labyrinth: Notes on the Origin of Courage
The ancient Greek myth linking the images of the labyrinth and the Minotaur provides an allegory for Melanie Klein's conception of the archaic Oedipus complex as well as a vivid illustration of Winnicott's notions of object usage and the 'subjective object'. The labyrinth is suggestive of mother's body as the first area for an infant's exploration and putative sadistic conquest. The Minotaur, in turn, suggests the infant's unconscious phantasies …
Internal objects' or ‘chimerical monsters’: The demonic ‘third forms’ of the internal world
The concept of ‘object’ whether internal or external, is a hold‐over from the Enlightenment and from the positivistic certainty of nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century science, Its use in current psychoanalytic theory and practice is now obsolete because of the contributions of post‐modernism and their emphasis on subjectivity and relativity. In plate of the word ‘object’, the author favors a return to pre‐Enlightenment psychology in order to …
The numinous and immanent nature of the psychoanalytic subject
In the Freudian and Kleinian conception of unconscious mental life, credence is given to the existence and functioning of peremptory instinctual drives as the putative causation of all mental life, yet they are denied an organization or a personality. It is especially when we come to the notion of how dreams are created or how the free associations of an analytic hour are orchestrated that we begin to wonder about the hidden order, the cryptic in…
Notes on Bion's “Memory and Desire”
Memory and desire, along with understanding and preconception, are to be abandoned (really, suspended) for the analyst to be ever open to unexpected emerging from the analysand's unconscious. The discipline that Bion suggests allows the analyst to be open to his/her own native feelings as an emotion-receptor and analytic instrument
Commentary on “Bion's Grid: A Tool for Transformation” by Marilyn Charles
Commentary on Dr. Riccardo Lombardi’s “Three Psychoanalytic Sessions”
The seventh servant: The implications of a truth drive in Bion's theory of ‘ O ’
Drawing upon Bion's published works on the subjects of truth, dreaming, alpha-function and transformations in 'O', the author independently postulates that there exists a 'truth instinctual drive' that subserves a truth principle, the latter of which is associated with the reality principle. Further, he suggests, following Bion's postulation, that 'alpha-function' and dreaming/phantasying constitute unconscious thinking processes and that they me…
Projective trans identification’: An extension of the concept of projective identification
Questions about the concept of projective identification still persist. The author presents the following hypotheses: Klein's traditional view and Bion's extension and revision of it can be thought of as occupying a continuum in reverse. He postulates that Bion's concept of communicative intersubjective projective identification (which the author renames 'projective transidentification') is primary and inclusive of Klein's earlier unconscious, om…
Dreaming as a ‘curtain of illusion’: Revisiting the ‘royal road’ with Bion as our guide
One of Bion's most unique contributions to psychoanalysis is his conception of dreaming in which he elaborates, modifies, and extends Freud 's ideas. While Freud dealt extensively with dream-work, he showed more interest in dreams themselves and their latent meaning and theorized that dreams ultimately constituted wish-fulfillments originating from the activity of the pleasure principle. Bion, on the other hand, focuses more on the process of dre…
Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion’s Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (14 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works)