Allan Compton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Compton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Compton |
| SIGNATURE | COMPTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1081 Moraga Drive, Los Angeles, Calif. 90049 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (review)
Reviewed by: Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation Allan Compton Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Jonathan Lear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 208 pp. $22.95 (hb), $15.95 (pb). Introduction Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation is a brief, complex, erudite, fascinating work, ultimately an attempt to explore the idea of a “moral psychology.” In Radical Hope, Lear weave…
An Investigation of Anxious Thought in Patients With Dsm-Iv Agoraphobia / Panic Disorder: Rationale and Design
Psychoanalysis as a profession is in difficulty because changes in the mental health field have exposed vulnerabilities inherent in psychoanalytic traditions. In this setting, scientific outcome studies of psychoanalytic treatment are a necessity. To enable such studies, certain preliminary research is required. In particular, a set of reliable diagnoses that recognize psychodynamic factors, in addition to “descriptive” criteria, must be develope…
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part III: Agoraphobia and Other Phobias of Adults
This is the third part of a review and commentary on the psychoanalytic literature on phobias. This section takes up agoraphobia and other phobias of adults, and suggests further avenues for interpenetration of psychoanalytic and psychiatric approaches
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part IV: General Theory of Phobias and Anxiety
This is the final part of the work on the psychoanalytic view of phobias. Here we consider general views of phobias, developments and issues in the psychoanalytic theory of anxiety, as it relates to phobias, and take up aspects of some broader theoretical issues, including nosology
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part I: Freud’s Theories of Phobias and Anxiety
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part II: Infantile Phobias
The psychoanalytic literature on infantile phobias, despite disclaimers by several of its prominent authors, seems to demonstrate a growth in knowledge of these conditions and an increasing respect for methodology. It is also noteworthy in its close adherence to the presentation of clinical material. Looking at phobia from this developmental viewpoint has caused us to modify our definition of phobia, adding independence from immediate, fear-provo…
Psychoanalytic Process
Differing concepts of psychoanalytic process and views of its "locale" are related to how essential the interactivity of the analyst is judged to be. Scientific scrutiny of clinical psychoanalysis requires that the interactive nature of the process be recognized. In this endeavor the concept of "process model" is helpful, as is the view of psychoanalysis as a form of treatment in which therapeutic process and therapeutic agent are distinguished
Objects and Attitudes
The concept of an attitudinal object has long been present in psychoanalysis bat almost entirely neglected. This omission is integral in the confusion and controversy about the object concept in general. It has left a theoretical gap which the so-called object relations theories have attempted to fill. This paper offers some preliminary suggestions for a psychoanalytic understanding of attitudes as a first level of inference in the study of relat…
Discussion of Sachs’s “On The Genesis Of Perversions”
Neglected Classics: Hanns Sachs's “On the genesis of perversions”
Introduction a une nouvelle traduction anglaise du texte classique de Hanns Sachs sur la genese des perversions (1923). L'eleve de Freud interroge l'axiome magistral selon lequel la nevrose est le negatif de la perversion
Freud: Objects and Structure
This paper, part of a series exploring the development of Freud's object concept, deals with the concepts of objects and psychic structure in the period from 1915 to 1938. In connection with the increased prominence of object loss and hostility in his clinical material, the role of objects in the building of psychic structure via identification assumed increased importance from 1917 on. After introduction of the ego-id-superego model, Freud asser…
Scientific Proceedings-Panel Reports: A Reexamination Of The Concept “Object” in Psychoanalysis
Les origines de la conception psychanalytique de l'objet refletaient les orientations neurophysiologiques de la pensee de Freud: dans certaines conditions d'excitation du systeme nerveux un autre organisme est necessaire pour soulager la tension: soit en raison de la nature meme du stimulus (sexuel) soit en raison de l'inachevement du developpement de l'organisme (cas du bebe qui a faim). Dans les deux cas le sujet en quete de satisfaction est a …
The Concept of Identification in the Work of Freud Ferenczi, and Abraham: A Review and Commentary
The development of the concept of identification in the work of Freud, Ferenczi, and Abraham is reviewed and analyzed from the standpoint of the development of the psychoanalytic object concept in general. Problems in the theory are seen to be related to ambiguity of the terms, ego and object, especially as reflected in the idea of introjection. The concept of identification, on the other hand, is shown to have undergone consistent evolution and …
The Development Of The Drive Object Concept In Freud's Work: 1905-1915
In 1905 Freud established the idea of an object of an instinctual drive as the basic object concept of psychoanalysis. He also introduced the derivative concepts of object directedness, object choice, and object finding. While taking these steps he simultaneously deemphasized the importance of drive objects in sexual life, contradicted himself on whether drives are autoerotic or object-directed in infancy, and made incompatible statements about w…
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: Drive Concept, Classification, and Development
The evolution of Freud's theory of instinctual drives, with the accompanying models of a mental apparatus, is remarkable for its tenacious adherence to addressing the fundamental problems of human psychology, here phrased as the problems of body-mind-environment relationships. The concept of instinctual drives continues to be one of the most pervasive concepts of psychoanalysis, weathering considerable attack over the last several decades, althou…
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives
There has been and continues to be some degree of failure to recognize the effects of the introduction of the ego-id-superego model on the drive construct. In particular, some of the criticisms of drive theory fail to take cognizance of the structural position of drives. Drives, as an aspect of id, are more clearly separated from behavior conceptually than many discussions imply. Drive energy is a different concept from drive. Especially in the a…
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: II: The Sexual Drives and the Ego Drives
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: The Beginnings of Freud’s Drive Theory
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives IV: Instinctual Drives and the Ego-Id-Superego Model
Freud's work on instinctual drives from 1916 to 1939 is reviewed and related to his earlier drive and structure propositions. A summary of the series of four papers on the evolution of Freud's drive theory is presented
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives III: The Complications of Libido and Narcissism
This is the third in a series of papers scrutinizing the development of Freud's theory of instinctual drives. Freud's formal statement of the libido theory and "extension of the libido to the ego" are reviewed and compared with his other propositions on instinctual drives and psychic structure
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety, III: A Preliminary Formulation of the Anxiety Response
An attempt is here made to apply the propositions of psychoanalytic ego psychology and certain ideas from systems theory to problems in the theory of anxiety. Conscious affect experience in adults is taken as a clinical starting point. The propositions advanced place concepts of processes by which events or fantasies are located in time at the center of anxiety theory and, perhaps, of affect theory generally
Psychic Change in Psychoanalysis
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. II. Developments in the Theory of Anxiety Since 1926
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. I. The Development of Freud's Theory of Anxiety
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. I. The Development of Freud's Theory of Anxiety
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: The Beginnings of Freud’s Drive Theory
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. II. Developments in the Theory of Anxiety Since 1926
Psychoanalytic Process
Differing concepts of psychoanalytic process and views of its "locale" are related to how essential the interactivity of the analyst is judged to be. Scientific scrutiny of clinical psychoanalysis requires that the interactive nature of the process be recognized. In this endeavor the concept of "process model" is helpful, as is the view of psychoanalysis as a form of treatment in which therapeutic process and therapeutic agent are distinguished
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety, III: A Preliminary Formulation of the Anxiety Response
An attempt is here made to apply the propositions of psychoanalytic ego psychology and certain ideas from systems theory to problems in the theory of anxiety. Conscious affect experience in adults is taken as a clinical starting point. The propositions advanced place concepts of processes by which events or fantasies are located in time at the center of anxiety theory and, perhaps, of affect theory generally
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives III: The Complications of Libido and Narcissism
This is the third in a series of papers scrutinizing the development of Freud's theory of instinctual drives. Freud's formal statement of the libido theory and "extension of the libido to the ego" are reviewed and compared with his other propositions on instinctual drives and psychic structure
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: II: The Sexual Drives and the Ego Drives
An Investigation of Anxious Thought in Patients With Dsm-Iv Agoraphobia / Panic Disorder: Rationale and Design
Psychoanalysis as a profession is in difficulty because changes in the mental health field have exposed vulnerabilities inherent in psychoanalytic traditions. In this setting, scientific outcome studies of psychoanalytic treatment are a necessity. To enable such studies, certain preliminary research is required. In particular, a set of reliable diagnoses that recognize psychodynamic factors, in addition to “descriptive” criteria, must be develope…
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: Drive Concept, Classification, and Development
The evolution of Freud's theory of instinctual drives, with the accompanying models of a mental apparatus, is remarkable for its tenacious adherence to addressing the fundamental problems of human psychology, here phrased as the problems of body-mind-environment relationships. The concept of instinctual drives continues to be one of the most pervasive concepts of psychoanalysis, weathering considerable attack over the last several decades, althou…
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives IV: Instinctual Drives and the Ego-Id-Superego Model
Freud's work on instinctual drives from 1916 to 1939 is reviewed and related to his earlier drive and structure propositions. A summary of the series of four papers on the evolution of Freud's drive theory is presented
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part III: Agoraphobia and Other Phobias of Adults
This is the third part of a review and commentary on the psychoanalytic literature on phobias. This section takes up agoraphobia and other phobias of adults, and suggests further avenues for interpenetration of psychoanalytic and psychiatric approaches
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part IV: General Theory of Phobias and Anxiety
This is the final part of the work on the psychoanalytic view of phobias. Here we consider general views of phobias, developments and issues in the psychoanalytic theory of anxiety, as it relates to phobias, and take up aspects of some broader theoretical issues, including nosology
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part I: Freud’s Theories of Phobias and Anxiety
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part II: Infantile Phobias
The psychoanalytic literature on infantile phobias, despite disclaimers by several of its prominent authors, seems to demonstrate a growth in knowledge of these conditions and an increasing respect for methodology. It is also noteworthy in its close adherence to the presentation of clinical material. Looking at phobia from this developmental viewpoint has caused us to modify our definition of phobia, adding independence from immediate, fear-provo…
Objects and Attitudes
The concept of an attitudinal object has long been present in psychoanalysis bat almost entirely neglected. This omission is integral in the confusion and controversy about the object concept in general. It has left a theoretical gap which the so-called object relations theories have attempted to fill. This paper offers some preliminary suggestions for a psychoanalytic understanding of attitudes as a first level of inference in the study of relat…
The Development Of The Drive Object Concept In Freud's Work: 1905-1915
In 1905 Freud established the idea of an object of an instinctual drive as the basic object concept of psychoanalysis. He also introduced the derivative concepts of object directedness, object choice, and object finding. While taking these steps he simultaneously deemphasized the importance of drive objects in sexual life, contradicted himself on whether drives are autoerotic or object-directed in infancy, and made incompatible statements about w…
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives
There has been and continues to be some degree of failure to recognize the effects of the introduction of the ego-id-superego model on the drive construct. In particular, some of the criticisms of drive theory fail to take cognizance of the structural position of drives. Drives, as an aspect of id, are more clearly separated from behavior conceptually than many discussions imply. Drive energy is a different concept from drive. Especially in the a…
Psychic Change in Psychoanalysis
Discussion of Sachs’s “On The Genesis Of Perversions”
Neglected Classics: Hanns Sachs's “On the genesis of perversions”
Introduction a une nouvelle traduction anglaise du texte classique de Hanns Sachs sur la genese des perversions (1923). L'eleve de Freud interroge l'axiome magistral selon lequel la nevrose est le negatif de la perversion
Freud: Objects and Structure
This paper, part of a series exploring the development of Freud's object concept, deals with the concepts of objects and psychic structure in the period from 1915 to 1938. In connection with the increased prominence of object loss and hostility in his clinical material, the role of objects in the building of psychic structure via identification assumed increased importance from 1917 on. After introduction of the ego-id-superego model, Freud asser…
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. II. Developments in the Theory of Anxiety Since 1926
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety. I. The Development of Freud's Theory of Anxiety
Psychic Change in Psychoanalysis
A Study of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety, III: A Preliminary Formulation of the Anxiety Response
An attempt is here made to apply the propositions of psychoanalytic ego psychology and certain ideas from systems theory to problems in the theory of anxiety. Conscious affect experience in adults is taken as a clinical starting point. The propositions advanced place concepts of processes by which events or fantasies are located in time at the center of anxiety theory and, perhaps, of affect theory generally
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: II: The Sexual Drives and the Ego Drives
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: The Beginnings of Freud’s Drive Theory
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives IV: Instinctual Drives and the Ego-Id-Superego Model
Freud's work on instinctual drives from 1916 to 1939 is reviewed and related to his earlier drive and structure propositions. A summary of the series of four papers on the evolution of Freud's drive theory is presented
On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives III: The Complications of Libido and Narcissism
This is the third in a series of papers scrutinizing the development of Freud's theory of instinctual drives. Freud's formal statement of the libido theory and "extension of the libido to the ego" are reviewed and compared with his other propositions on instinctual drives and psychic structure
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives: I: Drive Concept, Classification, and Development
The evolution of Freud's theory of instinctual drives, with the accompanying models of a mental apparatus, is remarkable for its tenacious adherence to addressing the fundamental problems of human psychology, here phrased as the problems of body-mind-environment relationships. The concept of instinctual drives continues to be one of the most pervasive concepts of psychoanalysis, weathering considerable attack over the last several decades, althou…
The Current Status of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Instinctual Drives
There has been and continues to be some degree of failure to recognize the effects of the introduction of the ego-id-superego model on the drive construct. In particular, some of the criticisms of drive theory fail to take cognizance of the structural position of drives. Drives, as an aspect of id, are more clearly separated from behavior conceptually than many discussions imply. Drive energy is a different concept from drive. Especially in the a…
Scientific Proceedings-Panel Reports: A Reexamination Of The Concept “Object” in Psychoanalysis
Les origines de la conception psychanalytique de l'objet refletaient les orientations neurophysiologiques de la pensee de Freud: dans certaines conditions d'excitation du systeme nerveux un autre organisme est necessaire pour soulager la tension: soit en raison de la nature meme du stimulus (sexuel) soit en raison de l'inachevement du developpement de l'organisme (cas du bebe qui a faim). Dans les deux cas le sujet en quete de satisfaction est a …
The Concept of Identification in the Work of Freud Ferenczi, and Abraham: A Review and Commentary
The development of the concept of identification in the work of Freud, Ferenczi, and Abraham is reviewed and analyzed from the standpoint of the development of the psychoanalytic object concept in general. Problems in the theory are seen to be related to ambiguity of the terms, ego and object, especially as reflected in the idea of introjection. The concept of identification, on the other hand, is shown to have undergone consistent evolution and …
The Development Of The Drive Object Concept In Freud's Work: 1905-1915
In 1905 Freud established the idea of an object of an instinctual drive as the basic object concept of psychoanalysis. He also introduced the derivative concepts of object directedness, object choice, and object finding. While taking these steps he simultaneously deemphasized the importance of drive objects in sexual life, contradicted himself on whether drives are autoerotic or object-directed in infancy, and made incompatible statements about w…
Discussion of Sachs’s “On The Genesis Of Perversions”
Neglected Classics: Hanns Sachs's “On the genesis of perversions”
Introduction a une nouvelle traduction anglaise du texte classique de Hanns Sachs sur la genese des perversions (1923). L'eleve de Freud interroge l'axiome magistral selon lequel la nevrose est le negatif de la perversion
Freud: Objects and Structure
This paper, part of a series exploring the development of Freud's object concept, deals with the concepts of objects and psychic structure in the period from 1915 to 1938. In connection with the increased prominence of object loss and hostility in his clinical material, the role of objects in the building of psychic structure via identification assumed increased importance from 1917 on. After introduction of the ego-id-superego model, Freud asser…
Objects and Attitudes
The concept of an attitudinal object has long been present in psychoanalysis bat almost entirely neglected. This omission is integral in the confusion and controversy about the object concept in general. It has left a theoretical gap which the so-called object relations theories have attempted to fill. This paper offers some preliminary suggestions for a psychoanalytic understanding of attitudes as a first level of inference in the study of relat…
Psychoanalytic Process
Differing concepts of psychoanalytic process and views of its "locale" are related to how essential the interactivity of the analyst is judged to be. Scientific scrutiny of clinical psychoanalysis requires that the interactive nature of the process be recognized. In this endeavor the concept of "process model" is helpful, as is the view of psychoanalysis as a form of treatment in which therapeutic process and therapeutic agent are distinguished
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part III: Agoraphobia and Other Phobias of Adults
This is the third part of a review and commentary on the psychoanalytic literature on phobias. This section takes up agoraphobia and other phobias of adults, and suggests further avenues for interpenetration of psychoanalytic and psychiatric approaches
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part IV: General Theory of Phobias and Anxiety
This is the final part of the work on the psychoanalytic view of phobias. Here we consider general views of phobias, developments and issues in the psychoanalytic theory of anxiety, as it relates to phobias, and take up aspects of some broader theoretical issues, including nosology
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part I: Freud’s Theories of Phobias and Anxiety
The Psychoanalytic View of Phobias: Part II: Infantile Phobias
The psychoanalytic literature on infantile phobias, despite disclaimers by several of its prominent authors, seems to demonstrate a growth in knowledge of these conditions and an increasing respect for methodology. It is also noteworthy in its close adherence to the presentation of clinical material. Looking at phobia from this developmental viewpoint has caused us to modify our definition of phobia, adding independence from immediate, fear-provo…
An Investigation of Anxious Thought in Patients With Dsm-Iv Agoraphobia / Panic Disorder: Rationale and Design
Psychoanalysis as a profession is in difficulty because changes in the mental health field have exposed vulnerabilities inherent in psychoanalytic traditions. In this setting, scientific outcome studies of psychoanalytic treatment are a necessity. To enable such studies, certain preliminary research is required. In particular, a set of reliable diagnoses that recognize psychodynamic factors, in addition to “descriptive” criteria, must be develope…
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (review)
Reviewed by: Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation Allan Compton Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. Jonathan Lear. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 208 pp. $22.95 (hb), $15.95 (pb). Introduction Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation is a brief, complex, erudite, fascinating work, ultimately an attempt to explore the idea of a “moral psychology.” In Radical Hope, Lear weave…
Psychology (23 works) · Psychoanalysis (22 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (21 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (19 works) · Psychotherapist (13 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Anxiety (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (6 works)