John S Auerbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5211540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John S Auerbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | John S |
| FAMILY NAME | Auerbach |
| SIGNATURE | AUERBACH J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mountain Home VA Healthcare System |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8390-9786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Contributions of Sidney J. Blatt to Understanding Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Mental Representation
This paper, written in honor of Sidney Blatt, explores how object relations are represented in narrative descriptions and in dream narratives and discusses how changes in these two assessments of object relations diverge or converge over the course of treatment. As part of Blatt’s Object Representation Research Group (ORRG) at the Yale University School of Medicine, Diamond and colleagues developed the Differentiation-Relatedness (D-R) Scale to a…
Internalizing the Legacy of Sidney J. Blatt
This paper discusses the respective contributions of Marcus, Long, and Bers with regard to internalization, a central concept in the work of Sidney J. Blatt. Although importance of internalization in Blatt’s work, especially in his papers with Rebecca Behrends, and in psychoanalysis more generally is acknowledged, various problematic aspects of this concept, rooted in the subject-object problem in philosophy, are discussed. A dyadic-systems persp…
Relatedness, self-definition, mental representation, and internalization in the work of Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt’s contributions to psychoanalytic psychology
Mental Representation in The Thought of Sidney Blatt
Mental representation was a central construct in Sidney Blatt’s contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis. This brief review demonstrates that Blatt’s understanding of representation was always informed by basic psychoanalytic concepts like the centrality of early caregiver-infant relationships and of unconscious mental processes. Although Blatt’s earlier writings were informed by psychoanalytic ego psychology and Piagetian cognitive develop…
Self-reflexivity, intersubjectivity, and therapeutic change.
Yale University and Western New England Institute for PsychoanalysisIntersubjectivity theory holds that the self forms through rela-tionships with others in a dialectic process. Although affectattunement is central to early self-other differentiation, infantsdo not see themselves as separate entities until 18 months andtheir minds as separate until approximately age 4. Transitionalobject relatedness thus often influences early childhood func-tion…
Self-reflexivity, intersubjectivity, and therapeutic change
Intersubjectivity theory holds that the self forms through relationships with others in a dialectic process. Although affect attunement is central to early self-other differentiation, infants do not see themselves as separate entities until 18 months and their minds as separate until approximately age 4. Transitional object relatedness thus often influences early childhood functioning. In self disorders, childhood disruptions in intersubjectivity…
Mental Representation, Severe Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Mental representation is a central construct in psychological development. A method for assessing the developmental level of representation of self and significant figures is described, and changes in the developmental level of these representations are reported in a sample of forty seriously disturbed, treatment-resistant adolescents and young adults in intensive, psychoanalytically oriented inpatient treatment lasting more than a year. Increase…
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Interpersonal and self-critical dysphoria and behavioral problems in adolescents
Narcissism
Narcissism
Interpersonal and self-critical dysphoria and behavioral problems in adolescents
Mental Representation, Severe Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Mental representation is a central construct in psychological development. A method for assessing the developmental level of representation of self and significant figures is described, and changes in the developmental level of these representations are reported in a sample of forty seriously disturbed, treatment-resistant adolescents and young adults in intensive, psychoanalytically oriented inpatient treatment lasting more than a year. Increase…
Mental Representation in The Thought of Sidney Blatt
Mental representation was a central construct in Sidney Blatt’s contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis. This brief review demonstrates that Blatt’s understanding of representation was always informed by basic psychoanalytic concepts like the centrality of early caregiver-infant relationships and of unconscious mental processes. Although Blatt’s earlier writings were informed by psychoanalytic ego psychology and Piagetian cognitive develop…
Narcissism
Narcissism
Interpersonal and self-critical dysphoria and behavioral problems in adolescents
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Self-representation in severe psychopathology
Self-reflexivity, intersubjectivity, and therapeutic change.
Yale University and Western New England Institute for PsychoanalysisIntersubjectivity theory holds that the self forms through rela-tionships with others in a dialectic process. Although affectattunement is central to early self-other differentiation, infantsdo not see themselves as separate entities until 18 months andtheir minds as separate until approximately age 4. Transitionalobject relatedness thus often influences early childhood func-tion…
Self-reflexivity, intersubjectivity, and therapeutic change
Intersubjectivity theory holds that the self forms through relationships with others in a dialectic process. Although affect attunement is central to early self-other differentiation, infants do not see themselves as separate entities until 18 months and their minds as separate until approximately age 4. Transitional object relatedness thus often influences early childhood functioning. In self disorders, childhood disruptions in intersubjectivity…
Mental Representation, Severe Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Mental representation is a central construct in psychological development. A method for assessing the developmental level of representation of self and significant figures is described, and changes in the developmental level of these representations are reported in a sample of forty seriously disturbed, treatment-resistant adolescents and young adults in intensive, psychoanalytically oriented inpatient treatment lasting more than a year. Increase…
Mental Representation in The Thought of Sidney Blatt
Mental representation was a central construct in Sidney Blatt’s contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis. This brief review demonstrates that Blatt’s understanding of representation was always informed by basic psychoanalytic concepts like the centrality of early caregiver-infant relationships and of unconscious mental processes. Although Blatt’s earlier writings were informed by psychoanalytic ego psychology and Piagetian cognitive develop…
Relatedness, self-definition, mental representation, and internalization in the work of Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt’s contributions to psychoanalytic psychology
The Contributions of Sidney J. Blatt to Understanding Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Mental Representation
This paper, written in honor of Sidney Blatt, explores how object relations are represented in narrative descriptions and in dream narratives and discusses how changes in these two assessments of object relations diverge or converge over the course of treatment. As part of Blatt’s Object Representation Research Group (ORRG) at the Yale University School of Medicine, Diamond and colleagues developed the Differentiation-Relatedness (D-R) Scale to a…
Internalizing the Legacy of Sidney J. Blatt
This paper discusses the respective contributions of Marcus, Long, and Bers with regard to internalization, a central concept in the work of Sidney J. Blatt. Although importance of internalization in Blatt’s work, especially in his papers with Rebecca Behrends, and in psychoanalysis more generally is acknowledged, various problematic aspects of this concept, rooted in the subject-object problem in philosophy, are discussed. A dyadic-systems persp…
Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (12 works) · Psychotherapist (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (6 works) · Reflexivity (6 works) · Social Representations and Identity (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works)