Michael J Diamond
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5211451 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael J Diamond |
| PRENOMES | Michael J |
| SOBRENOME | Diamond |
| ASSINATURA | DIAMOND M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Training and Supervising Analyst at Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8827-1440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Malignancies in the American Psyche
Most of what goes on in political discourse tends to accommodate to conscious psychology and rational thinking; nonetheless, there remains a perplexing, powerful and much less visible, primarily unconscious piece that can help address the chaos that threatens democracy's rather fragile nature. The limits of rational thinking become apparent when we consider the forceful powers of phantasies underlying human destructiveness. Consequently, includin…
Toward Eradicating the Unbearable
To understand fascistic group movements, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of fascistic states of mind within all of us. Following a note on the American polity, the author differentiates fascism from authoritarianism before reviewing the dynamics of fascistic states of mind, including the omnipotent longing for purity and its relationship to destructive narcissism. Considering the role of the death drive, the allure of the fascistic sta…
The Elusiveness of “The Feminine” in The Male Analyst
The author explores the feminine/masculine binary and what is meant by being "in" this binary versus "of" it. He considers Freud's views on female "otherness" in light of today's changing theories and practices regarding sexuality and gender. Newer ideas are seen to supplement rather than replace traditional ones; it is noted that binary dichotomies remain present in each individual's psyche but can yield to more complex and nuanced ways of think…
Encompassing the Multitude, Animating the Contradictions, and Building Bridges
Return of the Repressed
Psychoanalytic treatment is often indicated when trauma and its psyche/soma companion, dissociation, severely disrupt symbolic functioning and associative linking. After Freud’s initial thinking on these matters, repression replaced rather than supplemented dissociation (which occasions segregating units of experience) as the primary defensive response to severe trauma. Because psychoanalysis had “repressed” the salience of dissociation as active…
When Fathering Fails
Manifestations of failures in both symbolic and actual flesh-and-blood fathering reveal the inescapable role played by the father’s unconscious transmissions in the ever present triadic matrix. Perelberg’s crucial distinction between the murdered narcissistic father and the dead symbolic father suggests the problematic internalizations that fail to uphold the paternal law required for oedipal resolution. Three father-child narratives derived from…
Recovering the Father in Mind and Flesh
This paper aims to restore the father and paternal function to their rightful place alongside the mother and maternity in order to counter the prevailing matricentric, dyadic bias in psychoanalytic theory and technique. The author contends that both the symbolic and the actual, flesh-and-blood father are necessary to optimize his child's development. The paternal function inevitably operates in a triadic matrix; thirdness is always psychically in…
The Vibrant Challenges of Clinically Effective Psychoanalytic Mindedness
In addressing the central challenges of developing and maintaining the analyst's psychoanalytic mindedness, this paper focuses on two particularly challenging core components of clinical effectiveness not so easily developed despite the rigors of the tripartite training model. The first is the analyst's receptivity to unconscious communication, which entails the analyst's curiosity, acceptance of human nature, doubt, restraint, narcissistic balan…
The Missing Father Function in Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
This paper argues that recovering the "missing" paternal function in analytic space is essential for the patient's achievement of mature object relations. Emerging from the helpless infant's contact with primary caregivers, mature intimacy rests on establishing healthy triadic functioning based on an infant-with-mother-and-father. Despite a maternocentric bias in contemporary clinical theory, the emergence of triangularity and the inclusion of th…
The Elusiveness of Masculinity
Reaching beyond the Oedipus prototype to address the unrepresentable vulnerability founded on the boy's infantile helplessness in contact with the mother's body, the author aims to identify the inherent tensions and enigmas of being male. He proposes that both the repudiation of femininity and the overvaluation of phallicity are unconsciously constructed to withstand the fundamental deficiency grounded in the asymmetry of the boy's prephallic rel…
Growth and turbulence in the container/contained
This proficiently edited book contains 15 original papers presented at the sixth International Bion Conference held in 2009 in Boston, as well as two newly written chapters – an introduction by Cla
Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication
Developed from established psychoanalytic knowledge among different psychoanalytic cultures concerning unconscious interpsychic communication, analysts' use of their receptive mental experience--their analytic mind use, including the somatic, unconscious, and less accessible derivatives--represents a significant investigative road to patients' unconscious mental life, particularly with poorly symbolized mental states. The author expands upon this…
Women and Revolution
Masculinity Unraveled
A model of masculine gender identity development is presented that demonstrates how a male's sense of his masculinity and the ambiguities of his gender are being reworked throughout his life. Of factors shaping the boy's sense of masculinity early on, particular emphasis is placed on the role of the involved father, the nature of the parental relationship, and the mother's recognition and affirmation of her son's maleness. While healthy masculine…
Accessing the multitude within
This paper reflects upon the essential components of male identity that commonly are reworked in middle age. The author argues that healthy masculine gender identity involves an ongoing, plastic process of destabilization and reconstruction at various pivotal developmental stages, particularly during middle adulthood. In essence, a man's mature transformation of his sense of masculinity results when finite concepts of gender identity are supersed…
Accessing the multitude within
This paper reflects upon the essential components of male identity that commonly are reworked in middle age. The author argues that healthy masculine gender identity involves an ongoing, plastic process of destabilization and reconstruction at various pivotal developmental stages, particularly during middle adulthood. In essence, a man's mature transformation of his sense of masculinity results when finite concepts of gender identity are supersed…
The shaping of masculinity
This paper offers an understanding of the nature of the internalization processes involved in the shaping of male gender identity founded on the boy's unique struggles in separating from his mother. The underpinning for the initial development of a sense of masculinity is reconsidered as the author questions the widely held idea of Greenson and Stoller that a boy normatively has to 'dis-identify' from his mother to create his gender identity. Imp…
Creativity Needs in Becoming a Father
Stagnation, chaos, and severe character neuroses.
There are a relatively large number of unexplored issues in treating severely neurotic, character-disordered patients. The defining characteristics of these patients are formulated in dynamic, structural, and object relational terms. A discussion of the masochistic character is presented to exemplify such features
Stagnation, chaos, and severe character neuroses
Modification of hypnotizability
Improving the undergraduate lecture class by use of student-led discussion groups
Response to Political Candidates as a Function of Attitude Similarity - Dissimilarity
Effect of Occupational Prestige and Attitude Similarity on Attraction as a Function of Assumed Similarity of Attitude
Previous research has shown that the effect of attitudes on attraction is independent of the prestige or status of the stranger expressing the attitudes. It was hypothesized that in the absence of additional information, attraction toward a stranger is a positive function of his occupational prestige and that attraction is a positive function of assumed attitudinal similarity between stranger and S. Ss were 139 Stanford students who were given ei…
The shaping of masculinity
This paper offers an understanding of the nature of the internalization processes involved in the shaping of male gender identity founded on the boy's unique struggles in separating from his mother. The underpinning for the initial development of a sense of masculinity is reconsidered as the author questions the widely held idea of Greenson and Stoller that a boy normatively has to 'dis-identify' from his mother to create his gender identity. Imp…
Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication
Developed from established psychoanalytic knowledge among different psychoanalytic cultures concerning unconscious interpsychic communication, analysts' use of their receptive mental experience--their analytic mind use, including the somatic, unconscious, and less accessible derivatives--represents a significant investigative road to patients' unconscious mental life, particularly with poorly symbolized mental states. The author expands upon this…
Masculinity Unraveled
A model of masculine gender identity development is presented that demonstrates how a male's sense of his masculinity and the ambiguities of his gender are being reworked throughout his life. Of factors shaping the boy's sense of masculinity early on, particular emphasis is placed on the role of the involved father, the nature of the parental relationship, and the mother's recognition and affirmation of her son's maleness. While healthy masculine…
Accessing the multitude within
This paper reflects upon the essential components of male identity that commonly are reworked in middle age. The author argues that healthy masculine gender identity involves an ongoing, plastic process of destabilization and reconstruction at various pivotal developmental stages, particularly during middle adulthood. In essence, a man's mature transformation of his sense of masculinity results when finite concepts of gender identity are supersed…
Response to Political Candidates as a Function of Attitude Similarity - Dissimilarity
The Elusiveness of Masculinity
Reaching beyond the Oedipus prototype to address the unrepresentable vulnerability founded on the boy's infantile helplessness in contact with the mother's body, the author aims to identify the inherent tensions and enigmas of being male. He proposes that both the repudiation of femininity and the overvaluation of phallicity are unconsciously constructed to withstand the fundamental deficiency grounded in the asymmetry of the boy's prephallic rel…
Recovering the Father in Mind and Flesh
This paper aims to restore the father and paternal function to their rightful place alongside the mother and maternity in order to counter the prevailing matricentric, dyadic bias in psychoanalytic theory and technique. The author contends that both the symbolic and the actual, flesh-and-blood father are necessary to optimize his child's development. The paternal function inevitably operates in a triadic matrix; thirdness is always psychically in…
The Missing Father Function in Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
This paper argues that recovering the "missing" paternal function in analytic space is essential for the patient's achievement of mature object relations. Emerging from the helpless infant's contact with primary caregivers, mature intimacy rests on establishing healthy triadic functioning based on an infant-with-mother-and-father. Despite a maternocentric bias in contemporary clinical theory, the emergence of triangularity and the inclusion of th…
Return of the Repressed
Psychoanalytic treatment is often indicated when trauma and its psyche/soma companion, dissociation, severely disrupt symbolic functioning and associative linking. After Freud’s initial thinking on these matters, repression replaced rather than supplemented dissociation (which occasions segregating units of experience) as the primary defensive response to severe trauma. Because psychoanalysis had “repressed” the salience of dissociation as active…
Improving the undergraduate lecture class by use of student-led discussion groups
The Elusiveness of “The Feminine” in The Male Analyst
The author explores the feminine/masculine binary and what is meant by being "in" this binary versus "of" it. He considers Freud's views on female "otherness" in light of today's changing theories and practices regarding sexuality and gender. Newer ideas are seen to supplement rather than replace traditional ones; it is noted that binary dichotomies remain present in each individual's psyche but can yield to more complex and nuanced ways of think…
Effect of Occupational Prestige and Attitude Similarity on Attraction as a Function of Assumed Similarity of Attitude
Previous research has shown that the effect of attitudes on attraction is independent of the prestige or status of the stranger expressing the attitudes. It was hypothesized that in the absence of additional information, attraction toward a stranger is a positive function of his occupational prestige and that attraction is a positive function of assumed attitudinal similarity between stranger and S. Ss were 139 Stanford students who were given ei…
Response to Political Candidates as a Function of Attitude Similarity - Dissimilarity
Improving the undergraduate lecture class by use of student-led discussion groups
Modification of hypnotizability
Stagnation, chaos, and severe character neuroses.
There are a relatively large number of unexplored issues in treating severely neurotic, character-disordered patients. The defining characteristics of these patients are formulated in dynamic, structural, and object relational terms. A discussion of the masochistic character is presented to exemplify such features
Stagnation, chaos, and severe character neuroses
Creativity Needs in Becoming a Father
Accessing the multitude within
This paper reflects upon the essential components of male identity that commonly are reworked in middle age. The author argues that healthy masculine gender identity involves an ongoing, plastic process of destabilization and reconstruction at various pivotal developmental stages, particularly during middle adulthood. In essence, a man's mature transformation of his sense of masculinity results when finite concepts of gender identity are supersed…
Accessing the multitude within
This paper reflects upon the essential components of male identity that commonly are reworked in middle age. The author argues that healthy masculine gender identity involves an ongoing, plastic process of destabilization and reconstruction at various pivotal developmental stages, particularly during middle adulthood. In essence, a man's mature transformation of his sense of masculinity results when finite concepts of gender identity are supersed…
The shaping of masculinity
This paper offers an understanding of the nature of the internalization processes involved in the shaping of male gender identity founded on the boy's unique struggles in separating from his mother. The underpinning for the initial development of a sense of masculinity is reconsidered as the author questions the widely held idea of Greenson and Stoller that a boy normatively has to 'dis-identify' from his mother to create his gender identity. Imp…
Masculinity Unraveled
A model of masculine gender identity development is presented that demonstrates how a male's sense of his masculinity and the ambiguities of his gender are being reworked throughout his life. Of factors shaping the boy's sense of masculinity early on, particular emphasis is placed on the role of the involved father, the nature of the parental relationship, and the mother's recognition and affirmation of her son's maleness. While healthy masculine…
Women and Revolution
Analytic Mind Use and Interpsychic Communication
Developed from established psychoanalytic knowledge among different psychoanalytic cultures concerning unconscious interpsychic communication, analysts' use of their receptive mental experience--their analytic mind use, including the somatic, unconscious, and less accessible derivatives--represents a significant investigative road to patients' unconscious mental life, particularly with poorly symbolized mental states. The author expands upon this…
The Elusiveness of Masculinity
Reaching beyond the Oedipus prototype to address the unrepresentable vulnerability founded on the boy's infantile helplessness in contact with the mother's body, the author aims to identify the inherent tensions and enigmas of being male. He proposes that both the repudiation of femininity and the overvaluation of phallicity are unconsciously constructed to withstand the fundamental deficiency grounded in the asymmetry of the boy's prephallic rel…
Growth and turbulence in the container/contained
This proficiently edited book contains 15 original papers presented at the sixth International Bion Conference held in 2009 in Boston, as well as two newly written chapters – an introduction by Cla
Recovering the Father in Mind and Flesh
This paper aims to restore the father and paternal function to their rightful place alongside the mother and maternity in order to counter the prevailing matricentric, dyadic bias in psychoanalytic theory and technique. The author contends that both the symbolic and the actual, flesh-and-blood father are necessary to optimize his child's development. The paternal function inevitably operates in a triadic matrix; thirdness is always psychically in…
The Vibrant Challenges of Clinically Effective Psychoanalytic Mindedness
In addressing the central challenges of developing and maintaining the analyst's psychoanalytic mindedness, this paper focuses on two particularly challenging core components of clinical effectiveness not so easily developed despite the rigors of the tripartite training model. The first is the analyst's receptivity to unconscious communication, which entails the analyst's curiosity, acceptance of human nature, doubt, restraint, narcissistic balan…
The Missing Father Function in Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
This paper argues that recovering the "missing" paternal function in analytic space is essential for the patient's achievement of mature object relations. Emerging from the helpless infant's contact with primary caregivers, mature intimacy rests on establishing healthy triadic functioning based on an infant-with-mother-and-father. Despite a maternocentric bias in contemporary clinical theory, the emergence of triangularity and the inclusion of th…
When Fathering Fails
Manifestations of failures in both symbolic and actual flesh-and-blood fathering reveal the inescapable role played by the father’s unconscious transmissions in the ever present triadic matrix. Perelberg’s crucial distinction between the murdered narcissistic father and the dead symbolic father suggests the problematic internalizations that fail to uphold the paternal law required for oedipal resolution. Three father-child narratives derived from…
The Elusiveness of “The Feminine” in The Male Analyst
The author explores the feminine/masculine binary and what is meant by being "in" this binary versus "of" it. He considers Freud's views on female "otherness" in light of today's changing theories and practices regarding sexuality and gender. Newer ideas are seen to supplement rather than replace traditional ones; it is noted that binary dichotomies remain present in each individual's psyche but can yield to more complex and nuanced ways of think…
Encompassing the Multitude, Animating the Contradictions, and Building Bridges
Return of the Repressed
Psychoanalytic treatment is often indicated when trauma and its psyche/soma companion, dissociation, severely disrupt symbolic functioning and associative linking. After Freud’s initial thinking on these matters, repression replaced rather than supplemented dissociation (which occasions segregating units of experience) as the primary defensive response to severe trauma. Because psychoanalysis had “repressed” the salience of dissociation as active…
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Malignancies in the American Psyche
Most of what goes on in political discourse tends to accommodate to conscious psychology and rational thinking; nonetheless, there remains a perplexing, powerful and much less visible, primarily unconscious piece that can help address the chaos that threatens democracy's rather fragile nature. The limits of rational thinking become apparent when we consider the forceful powers of phantasies underlying human destructiveness. Consequently, includin…
Toward Eradicating the Unbearable
To understand fascistic group movements, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of fascistic states of mind within all of us. Following a note on the American polity, the author differentiates fascism from authoritarianism before reviewing the dynamics of fascistic states of mind, including the omnipotent longing for purity and its relationship to destructive narcissism. Considering the role of the death drive, the allure of the fascistic sta…
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