Irwin Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irwin Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1240 Westlake Blvd. Suite 211 Westlake Village, CA 91361, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identity Disturbance In Distant Patients
Chronically distant, emotionally isolated patients often present with identity disturbance. Identity, it is argued, develops as a thematic pattern of narcissism, shaped by the nature of the mother’s early libidinal influences on the child’s sense of self. Identity provides a form of self-definition that addresses the question, Who am I? In the treatment of these patients, resistances to narcissistic vulnerabilities (narcissistic resistances) prov…
Identity Maintenance in the Affectively Distant Patient
Patients who are affectively distant, in that they appear to have little conscious emotional investment in the analyst, have been described increasingly in the psychoanalytic literature of the last twenty years. Typically, they have been understood either from a developmental point of view as defensively struggling against wishes for symbiotic union or, on the Kleinian model, as having unconscious fantasies of bodily fusion with the mother that, …
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
The incompatibility of the medical model and the therapeutic community
Identity Maintenance in the Affectively Distant Patient
Patients who are affectively distant, in that they appear to have little conscious emotional investment in the analyst, have been described increasingly in the psychoanalytic literature of the last twenty years. Typically, they have been understood either from a developmental point of view as defensively struggling against wishes for symbiotic union or, on the Kleinian model, as having unconscious fantasies of bodily fusion with the mother that, …
The incompatibility of the medical model and the therapeutic community
The incompatibility of the medical model and the therapeutic community
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
Ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process
Identity Maintenance in the Affectively Distant Patient
Patients who are affectively distant, in that they appear to have little conscious emotional investment in the analyst, have been described increasingly in the psychoanalytic literature of the last twenty years. Typically, they have been understood either from a developmental point of view as defensively struggling against wishes for symbiotic union or, on the Kleinian model, as having unconscious fantasies of bodily fusion with the mother that, …
Identity Disturbance In Distant Patients
Chronically distant, emotionally isolated patients often present with identity disturbance. Identity, it is argued, develops as a thematic pattern of narcissism, shaped by the nature of the mother’s early libidinal influences on the child’s sense of self. Identity provides a form of self-definition that addresses the question, Who am I? In the treatment of these patients, resistances to narcissistic vulnerabilities (narcissistic resistances) prov…
Epistemology (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works)