Susan A Bers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan A Bers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bers |
| SIGNATURE | BERS S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 234 Church Street, Suite 300 New Haven, CT 06510, USA E‐mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Self and Object Representations in Eating Disorders
This paper illustrates the interplay of research and psychological treatment in the author’s work with eating-disorder patients. The mutual influence of research and clinical treatment was valued and encouraged by Sidney Blatt. A literature review includes both clinical and research reports of the inner world of eating-disorder patients. An outline follows of the author’s previously published research on the sense of self and object representatio…
Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis
An empirical exploration of the dynamics of anorexia nervosa
Extensive clinical reports and a few empirical investigations indicate that a disrupted relationship with mother and a distorted sense of self are central to Anorexia Nervosa (AN). The present study explores these observations further using the Differentiation–Relatedness Scale (D–RS) to compare AN patients’ descriptions of mother, father, and self with those of matched general psychiatric (PC) and nonclinical controls (NC). Results indicate that…
The Language of Anorexia Nervosa
Out of the Woods
Learning About Psychoanalysis Combined With Medication
When medication is at play in an analysis, the nonphysician candidate or psychoanalyst faces conceptual and practical challenges, as well as countertransference risks and opportunities. A psychologist psychoanalytic candidate describes the treatment of an analysand who underwent a gradual uncovering and worsening of obsessive-compulsive and anxiety symptoms; at twenty-one months, the analysand introduced the topic of medication. These development…
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment.
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment
Social-comparison jealousy
Social-comparison jealousy
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment.
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment
Normal and pathological aspects of self-descriptions and their change over long-term treatment
Learning About Psychoanalysis Combined With Medication
When medication is at play in an analysis, the nonphysician candidate or psychoanalyst faces conceptual and practical challenges, as well as countertransference risks and opportunities. A psychologist psychoanalytic candidate describes the treatment of an analysand who underwent a gradual uncovering and worsening of obsessive-compulsive and anxiety symptoms; at twenty-one months, the analysand introduced the topic of medication. These development…
Out of the Woods
The Language of Anorexia Nervosa
An empirical exploration of the dynamics of anorexia nervosa
Extensive clinical reports and a few empirical investigations indicate that a disrupted relationship with mother and a distorted sense of self are central to Anorexia Nervosa (AN). The present study explores these observations further using the Differentiation–Relatedness Scale (D–RS) to compare AN patients’ descriptions of mother, father, and self with those of matched general psychiatric (PC) and nonclinical controls (NC). Results indicate that…
Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis
Self and Object Representations in Eating Disorders
This paper illustrates the interplay of research and psychological treatment in the author’s work with eating-disorder patients. The mutual influence of research and clinical treatment was valued and encouraged by Sidney Blatt. A literature review includes both clinical and research reports of the inner world of eating-disorder patients. An outline follows of the author’s previously published research on the sense of self and object representatio…
Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Eating disorders (3 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (3 works)