Beatriz Priel
Biographic Data
| ID | 648963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatriz Priel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatriz |
| FAMILY NAME | Priel |
| SIGNATURE | PRIEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Role of perceived social support in depressive and somatic symptoms experienced by Bedouin Arab and Jewish Israeli undergraduates
Elevated levels of depressive and somatic symptoms have been documented among college students. Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the number of Bedouin Arab students studying at institutions of higher education in southern Israel. To date, research on coping and mental health problems among students who are members of this ethnic minority has been limited. This study examined the role of three aspects of perceived social su…
Why is fathers’ reflective function important
Transformation and invariance in creative translations and analytic interpretations: A Bionian reading of Borges and Cervantes
Bion's basic theory of transformations includes the concept of invariances: those aspects that are kept unchanged in the transformation. Translations are considered transformations that include invariances that allow for the recognition of the transformation. Psychoanalytic interpretations are seen by the author of this paper as a special case of such transformations. From Borges's radically open perspective on translation, psychoanalytic interpr…
Transcending the caesura: The reading effects of Borges’s fiction
This essay explores the assumption that the sense of perplexity and surprise that characterizes the reading of many of Borges's works of fiction is related to these stories' direct and explicit exposition of transitive thoughts transcending caesurae (Bion, 1977). Borges presents a world in which diverse and even contradictory points of view or interpretations coexist. These texts allow for paradox to be acknowledged and to remain unresolved. The …
Grandiose Narcissism Versus Vulnerable Narcissism in Threatening Situations: Emotional Reactions to Achievement Failure and Interpersonal Rejection
This study compared grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism in terms of emotional reactions to threats involving achievement failure and interpersonal rejection. It was hypothesized that grandiose narcissism is associated with vulnerability to achievement setbacks. In contrast, vulnerable narcissism involves sensitivity to shaming interpersonal experiences. A randomized experimental 2-wave design was used with a community sample of 448 par…
Emotional Responses to a Romantic Partner's Imaginary Rejection: The Roles of Attachment Anxiety, Covert Narcissism, and Self‐Evaluation
These studies tested the associations between responses to an induced imaginary romantic rejection and individual differences on dimensions of attachment and covert narcissism. In Study 1 ( N =125), we examined the associations between attachment dimensions and emotional responses to a vignette depicting a scenario of romantic rejection, as measured by self‐reported negative mood states, expressions of anger, somatic symptoms, and self‐evaluation…
Maltreated Children's Representations of Mother and an Additional Caregiver: A Longitudinal Study
In the current longitudinal investigation, we explored the continuity of and changes in the mental representations of the mother and an additional caregiver among forty‐five 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children who had been severely maltreated and subsequently placed in long‐term residential care as well as the relationships between the content and structure of these representations and teacher's assessments of the child's externalizing and internalizing s…
The transformation of sociogenic autistic defences in The Lives of Others
Self‐ and maternal representations, relatedness patterns, and problem behavior in middle childhood
The present study investigated the association between children’s representations of their mothers’ and teachers’ reports of children’s problem behavior. The research team conducted semistructured narrative interviews with a community sample of 203 Israeli 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children. Ten months later, researchers collected teachers’ reports of children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. This study investigated whether children’s self‐rep…
Thinking extreme social violence: The model of the literary plague
The author uses literary plagues as a model for thinking psychoanalytically about the basic anxieties activated among perpetrators of sanctioned massacres. The model of the plague allows abstracting an underlying primitive psychological organization characterized by syncretism and a powerful anxiety of de-differentiation and confusion, leading characteristically to imitative behavior within the in-group as well as to the disavowal of the out-grou…
Mother and Self‐Representations: Investigating Associations With Symptomatic Behavior and Academic Competence in Middle Childhood
This article reports two studies examining the content and structural aspects of maternal and self‐representations in middle childhood in two prospective studies of 9 to 11‐year‐old children, their stability over time and interrelations, and their contribution to symptomatology and academic functioning. In Study 1 ( N =169), content and structural dimensions of participants' open‐ended narratives of self and mother were assessed, and their factor…
Authority as paradox: The transformations of Don Quijote
The author's contention is that the analysand's temporary attribution of authority to the analyst is inherent in the analytic situation; this is seen as a transitional and paradoxical form of authority pertaining neither to internal nor external reality, but dwelling in the analytic third. The author proposes a conceptualization of psychoanalytic authority as a form of aesthetic authority according to Gadamer's definitions. While the scientific a…
Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Definition in Late Adulthood Depression: Personality Predispositions, and Protective Factors
This study addresses depression in late adulthood within the context of Blatt's (1974; 1991) theory of development and vulnerabilities to depression. Participants were a sample of 237 Israeli community-dwelling old adults (age 65–75) in good health and functioning well. The authors assumed that in this developmental period, normally beset with questions about self-identity and interpersonal relatedness, the associations among Self-criticism, the …
Negative capability and truth in Borges's ‘Emma Zunz’
The author's main contention is that Borges's short story ‘Emma Zunz’ not only includes psychoanalytic themes, but also succeeds in effecting, through the fictional text's form, a reading akin to a psychoanalytic approach to the vicissitudes of truth and meaning. This is an approach named by Bion, after Keats, ‘negative capability’; for example, an openness, not to the (impossible) knowledge of truth, but to its effects. The effect of reading Bor…
Negative capability and truth in Borges's 'Emma Zunz
The author's main contention is that Borges's short story 'Emma Zunz' not only includes psychoanalytic themes, but also succeeds in effecting, through the fictional text's form, a reading akin to a psychoanalytic approach to the vicissitudes of truth and meaning. This is an approach named by Bion, after Keats, 'negative capability'; for example, an openness, not to the (impossible) knowledge of truth, but to its effects. The effect of reading Bor…
A Multisource Approach to Self‐Critical Vulnerability to Depression: The Moderating Role of Attachment
The present study investigated the effects of self‐criticism, dependency, and attachment variables in depression among couples. We utilized a multisource design that involved self‐reports and spouse reports of personality and depression. This approach enabled us to explore the patterns of relations between self‐reported and the spouse's report of the partner's view of self‐criticism, dependency, and attachment dimensions, as well as the contribut…
Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word‐music and translation
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation. Freud's main uses of the metaphor of translation as an intrapsychic as well as an intersubjective phenomena, their resonance among later psychoan…
Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word-music and translation
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation. Freud's main uses of the metaphor of translation as an intrapsychic as well as an intersubjective phenomena, their resonance among later psychoan…
Childbearing depressive symptomatology in high–risk pregnancies: The roles of working models and social support
Guided by both attachment and social support theories, the authors conducted a longitudinal investigation exploring the concomitant effects of perceptions of spouse support (anticipated and received spouse support) and internal working models of attachment (positive–self and positive–other), on childbearing depressive symptomatology. Distinct main and interaction effects for attachment dimensions and perceived support variables were hypothesized …
Perceptions of early relationships during the transition to motherhood: The mediating role of social support
Perceptions of the availability of social support were assumed to mediate the association between the future mother's perceptions of early relationships and positive postpartum outcomes. We explored the idea that pregnant women's perceptions of early caretaking relationships as optimal associate with the perceived availability of, and satisfaction with, social support, which in turn, were assumed to affect postpartum depressive symptomatology, th…
Who Killed Laius: On Sophocles' Enigmatic Message
Using Laplanche's basic conceptualisation of the role of the other in unconscious processes, the author proposes a reading of Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the King, according to basic principles of dream interpretation. This reading corroborates contemporary literary perspectives suggesting that Sophocles' tragedy may not only convey the myth but also provide a critical analysis of how myths work. Important textual inconsistencies and incoherence,…
Bridging the gap between attachment and object relations theories: A study of the transition to motherhood
An empirical study of the relations between assessments of adult attachment styles and object representations was performed in the context of first‐time mothers' emotional ties to their unborn babies. We assumed that, while conceptualizations of attachment behaviour and internal working models grasp the early basic patterns of interpersonal relationships and affect regulation, object representations indicate current transformations of these patte…
Negation in Borges's ‘The Secret Miracle’: Writing the Shoah
The author presents a psychoanalytic reading of Borges's 'The secret miracle' (1943), a short story about the Shoah, for which Freud's concept of negation (Verneinen) and recent psychoanalytic approaches to symbolisation and the functions of fiction form the theoretical background. She argues that the effects of negation, present in literary fiction, become forcefully magnified in the fiction of the Shoah, because of its specific inversion of the…
Negation in Borges's 'The Secret Miracle: Writing the Shoah
The author presents a psychoanalytic reading of Borges's ‘The secret miracle’ (1943), a short story about the Shoah, for which Freud's concept of negation (Verneinen) and recent psychoanalytic approaches to symbolisation and the functions of fiction form the theoretical background. She argues that the effects of negation, present in literary fiction, become forcefully magnified in the fiction of the Shoah, because of its specific inversion of the…
Two maternal representations: A study of Israeli adopted children.
Using an object relations perspective, the representations of birth and adopted mothers in a sample of 52 nonreferred adoptees were studied. To better understand the specific effects of adoption on the construction of 2 maternal representations, birth and adoptive mammal representation of adopted children was compared with that of nonadopted children. In addition, the effect of incongruous representations of birth and adoptive mothers on adoptees…
Perceptions of early relationships during the transition to motherhood: The mediating role of social support
Perceptions of the availability of social support were assumed to mediate the association between the future mother's perceptions of early relationships and positive postpartum outcomes. We explored the idea that pregnant women's perceptions of early caretaking relationships as optimal associate with the perceived availability of, and satisfaction with, social support, which in turn, were assumed to affect postpartum depressive symptomatology, th…
Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word‐music and translation
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation. Freud's main uses of the metaphor of translation as an intrapsychic as well as an intersubjective phenomena, their resonance among later psychoan…
Who Killed Laius: On Sophocles' Enigmatic Message
Using Laplanche's basic conceptualisation of the role of the other in unconscious processes, the author proposes a reading of Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the King, according to basic principles of dream interpretation. This reading corroborates contemporary literary perspectives suggesting that Sophocles' tragedy may not only convey the myth but also provide a critical analysis of how myths work. Important textual inconsistencies and incoherence,…
Bridging the gap between attachment and object relations theories: A study of the transition to motherhood
An empirical study of the relations between assessments of adult attachment styles and object representations was performed in the context of first‐time mothers' emotional ties to their unborn babies. We assumed that, while conceptualizations of attachment behaviour and internal working models grasp the early basic patterns of interpersonal relationships and affect regulation, object representations indicate current transformations of these patte…
Authority as paradox: The transformations of Don Quijote
The author's contention is that the analysand's temporary attribution of authority to the analyst is inherent in the analytic situation; this is seen as a transitional and paradoxical form of authority pertaining neither to internal nor external reality, but dwelling in the analytic third. The author proposes a conceptualization of psychoanalytic authority as a form of aesthetic authority according to Gadamer's definitions. While the scientific a…
Negative capability and truth in Borges's ‘Emma Zunz’
The author's main contention is that Borges's short story ‘Emma Zunz’ not only includes psychoanalytic themes, but also succeeds in effecting, through the fictional text's form, a reading akin to a psychoanalytic approach to the vicissitudes of truth and meaning. This is an approach named by Bion, after Keats, ‘negative capability’; for example, an openness, not to the (impossible) knowledge of truth, but to its effects. The effect of reading Bor…
Beyond Neutrality and Embeddedness: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Detective Fiction
Two maternal representations: A study of Israeli adopted children.
Using an object relations perspective, the representations of birth and adopted mothers in a sample of 52 nonreferred adoptees were studied. To better understand the specific effects of adoption on the construction of 2 maternal representations, birth and adoptive mammal representation of adopted children was compared with that of nonadopted children. In addition, the effect of incongruous representations of birth and adoptive mothers on adoptees…
Two maternal representations: A study of Israeli adopted children
Adult attachment styles, early relationships, antenatal attachment, and perceptions of infant temperament: A study of first‐time mothers
We explored the relative contributions of first‐time mothers’romantic attachment styles and early relations with their own mothers to the prediction of infant temperamental difficulty. A mediating role for mother's attachment to the unborn baby was assumed. In a prospective longitudinal study of 115 mothers of healthy babies, a structural model was delineated according to a conception of maternally reported infant temperament as a reflection of b…
Bridging the gap between attachment and object relations theories: A study of the transition to motherhood
An empirical study of the relations between assessments of adult attachment styles and object representations was performed in the context of first‐time mothers' emotional ties to their unborn babies. We assumed that, while conceptualizations of attachment behaviour and internal working models grasp the early basic patterns of interpersonal relationships and affect regulation, object representations indicate current transformations of these patte…
Negation in Borges's ‘The Secret Miracle’: Writing the Shoah
The author presents a psychoanalytic reading of Borges's 'The secret miracle' (1943), a short story about the Shoah, for which Freud's concept of negation (Verneinen) and recent psychoanalytic approaches to symbolisation and the functions of fiction form the theoretical background. She argues that the effects of negation, present in literary fiction, become forcefully magnified in the fiction of the Shoah, because of its specific inversion of the…
Negation in Borges's 'The Secret Miracle: Writing the Shoah
The author presents a psychoanalytic reading of Borges's ‘The secret miracle’ (1943), a short story about the Shoah, for which Freud's concept of negation (Verneinen) and recent psychoanalytic approaches to symbolisation and the functions of fiction form the theoretical background. She argues that the effects of negation, present in literary fiction, become forcefully magnified in the fiction of the Shoah, because of its specific inversion of the…
Childbearing depressive symptomatology in high–risk pregnancies: The roles of working models and social support
Guided by both attachment and social support theories, the authors conducted a longitudinal investigation exploring the concomitant effects of perceptions of spouse support (anticipated and received spouse support) and internal working models of attachment (positive–self and positive–other), on childbearing depressive symptomatology. Distinct main and interaction effects for attachment dimensions and perceived support variables were hypothesized …
Perceptions of early relationships during the transition to motherhood: The mediating role of social support
Perceptions of the availability of social support were assumed to mediate the association between the future mother's perceptions of early relationships and positive postpartum outcomes. We explored the idea that pregnant women's perceptions of early caretaking relationships as optimal associate with the perceived availability of, and satisfaction with, social support, which in turn, were assumed to affect postpartum depressive symptomatology, th…
Who Killed Laius: On Sophocles' Enigmatic Message
Using Laplanche's basic conceptualisation of the role of the other in unconscious processes, the author proposes a reading of Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the King, according to basic principles of dream interpretation. This reading corroborates contemporary literary perspectives suggesting that Sophocles' tragedy may not only convey the myth but also provide a critical analysis of how myths work. Important textual inconsistencies and incoherence,…
A Multisource Approach to Self‐Critical Vulnerability to Depression: The Moderating Role of Attachment
The present study investigated the effects of self‐criticism, dependency, and attachment variables in depression among couples. We utilized a multisource design that involved self‐reports and spouse reports of personality and depression. This approach enabled us to explore the patterns of relations between self‐reported and the spouse's report of the partner's view of self‐criticism, dependency, and attachment dimensions, as well as the contribut…
Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word‐music and translation
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation. Freud's main uses of the metaphor of translation as an intrapsychic as well as an intersubjective phenomena, their resonance among later psychoan…
Psychoanalytic interpretations: Word-music and translation
A perspective on psychoanalytic interpretations as a special case of artistic translations (i.e. translations of both content and formal aspects of discourse) is proposed. Mutative interpretations are seen as creative endeavours that always presuppose a prior text, which is itself already a translation. Freud's main uses of the metaphor of translation as an intrapsychic as well as an intersubjective phenomena, their resonance among later psychoan…
Negative capability and truth in Borges's ‘Emma Zunz’
The author's main contention is that Borges's short story ‘Emma Zunz’ not only includes psychoanalytic themes, but also succeeds in effecting, through the fictional text's form, a reading akin to a psychoanalytic approach to the vicissitudes of truth and meaning. This is an approach named by Bion, after Keats, ‘negative capability’; for example, an openness, not to the (impossible) knowledge of truth, but to its effects. The effect of reading Bor…
Negative capability and truth in Borges's 'Emma Zunz
The author's main contention is that Borges's short story 'Emma Zunz' not only includes psychoanalytic themes, but also succeeds in effecting, through the fictional text's form, a reading akin to a psychoanalytic approach to the vicissitudes of truth and meaning. This is an approach named by Bion, after Keats, 'negative capability'; for example, an openness, not to the (impossible) knowledge of truth, but to its effects. The effect of reading Bor…
Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Definition in Late Adulthood Depression: Personality Predispositions, and Protective Factors
This study addresses depression in late adulthood within the context of Blatt's (1974; 1991) theory of development and vulnerabilities to depression. Participants were a sample of 237 Israeli community-dwelling old adults (age 65–75) in good health and functioning well. The authors assumed that in this developmental period, normally beset with questions about self-identity and interpersonal relatedness, the associations among Self-criticism, the …
Mother and Self‐Representations: Investigating Associations With Symptomatic Behavior and Academic Competence in Middle Childhood
This article reports two studies examining the content and structural aspects of maternal and self‐representations in middle childhood in two prospective studies of 9 to 11‐year‐old children, their stability over time and interrelations, and their contribution to symptomatology and academic functioning. In Study 1 ( N =169), content and structural dimensions of participants' open‐ended narratives of self and mother were assessed, and their factor…
Authority as paradox: The transformations of Don Quijote
The author's contention is that the analysand's temporary attribution of authority to the analyst is inherent in the analytic situation; this is seen as a transitional and paradoxical form of authority pertaining neither to internal nor external reality, but dwelling in the analytic third. The author proposes a conceptualization of psychoanalytic authority as a form of aesthetic authority according to Gadamer's definitions. While the scientific a…
Thinking extreme social violence: The model of the literary plague
The author uses literary plagues as a model for thinking psychoanalytically about the basic anxieties activated among perpetrators of sanctioned massacres. The model of the plague allows abstracting an underlying primitive psychological organization characterized by syncretism and a powerful anxiety of de-differentiation and confusion, leading characteristically to imitative behavior within the in-group as well as to the disavowal of the out-grou…
Self‐ and maternal representations, relatedness patterns, and problem behavior in middle childhood
The present study investigated the association between children’s representations of their mothers’ and teachers’ reports of children’s problem behavior. The research team conducted semistructured narrative interviews with a community sample of 203 Israeli 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children. Ten months later, researchers collected teachers’ reports of children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. This study investigated whether children’s self‐rep…
Emotional Responses to a Romantic Partner's Imaginary Rejection: The Roles of Attachment Anxiety, Covert Narcissism, and Self‐Evaluation
These studies tested the associations between responses to an induced imaginary romantic rejection and individual differences on dimensions of attachment and covert narcissism. In Study 1 ( N =125), we examined the associations between attachment dimensions and emotional responses to a vignette depicting a scenario of romantic rejection, as measured by self‐reported negative mood states, expressions of anger, somatic symptoms, and self‐evaluation…
Maltreated Children's Representations of Mother and an Additional Caregiver: A Longitudinal Study
In the current longitudinal investigation, we explored the continuity of and changes in the mental representations of the mother and an additional caregiver among forty‐five 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children who had been severely maltreated and subsequently placed in long‐term residential care as well as the relationships between the content and structure of these representations and teacher's assessments of the child's externalizing and internalizing s…
The transformation of sociogenic autistic defences in The Lives of Others
Grandiose Narcissism Versus Vulnerable Narcissism in Threatening Situations: Emotional Reactions to Achievement Failure and Interpersonal Rejection
This study compared grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism in terms of emotional reactions to threats involving achievement failure and interpersonal rejection. It was hypothesized that grandiose narcissism is associated with vulnerability to achievement setbacks. In contrast, vulnerable narcissism involves sensitivity to shaming interpersonal experiences. A randomized experimental 2-wave design was used with a community sample of 448 par…
Transcending the caesura: The reading effects of Borges’s fiction
This essay explores the assumption that the sense of perplexity and surprise that characterizes the reading of many of Borges's works of fiction is related to these stories' direct and explicit exposition of transitive thoughts transcending caesurae (Bion, 1977). Borges presents a world in which diverse and even contradictory points of view or interpretations coexist. These texts allow for paradox to be acknowledged and to remain unresolved. The …
Psychology (28 works) · Psychoanalysis (17 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works)