Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis

This journal is dedicated to psychoanalysis. Psychological anthropology is a recognized subfield, and psychoanalytic theory has significantly influenced social theory, making this venue closely cognate to social anthropology

Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Child Therapy and Development · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human auditory perception and evaluation · Legal case studies and regulations

• A Royal Road from Homelessness—The Clinical Use of Dreams

  Joseph P Merlino•ARTICLE•2002

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  The author discusses the use of a dynamic psychotherapy technique, specifically dream exploration, in his work with New York City's homeless. Given the short amount of time clinically available in working with this population, discussing the patient's dreams was found to quickly get to the most pressing here-and-now issues. The psychiatrist's interest in the patient's creation of the dream was also noted to enhance the therapeutic relationship an…

• Walter Bonime's Legacy

  Marianne Horney Eckardt•ARTICLE•2002

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  Walter Bonime is best known for his influential book, The Clinical Use of Dreams, published in 1962. Though Bonime embraced a neo-Freudian orientation, The Clinical Use of Dreams is remarkable for an absence of theoretical discussions, emphasizing instead a detailed practical approach, aided by illustrative vignettes. His particular emphases are on collaboration in the discovery of meaning and the importance of recognizing feeling representations…

• Interpersonal Psychoanalysis' Radical Façade

  Irwin Hirsch•ARTICLE•2002

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  The participant-observation model initiated the relational turn, as well as the shift from modernism to postmodernism in psychoanalysis. This two-person, coparticipant conceptualization of the psychoanalytic situation moved psychoanalysis from the realm of alleged objective science toward intersubjectivity and hermeneutics. From this perspective, the analyst as subjective other is constantly engaged affectively with the patient in ways that are v…

• Psychoanalytic Peregrinations IV

  Richard D Chessick•ARTICLE•2002

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  This article proposes to clarify the use of phenomenology as a complementary approach to the psychoanalytic process. Because phenomenology is defined and used differently by many different authors, it is here specifically juxtaposed to the DSM-IV approach for purposes of comparison and elucidation. Phenomenology attempts to complement the objectivation and mathematization of reality by the sciences with allowing things to speak for themselves. Th…

• A Clinical Focus on Feeling in Dreams

  Walter Bonime•ARTICLE•2002

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  This article, a posthumous presentation of a work in progress of Walter Bonime, one of the maverick thinkers of psychoanalysis of the 20th century, gives us a clear picture of a step-by-step use of feelings in dreams to facilitate the working through process in psychoanalysis. Through a series of dreams occurring during a finite period of the working through process the author shows us how he utilizes the feelings in the dreams to facilitate asso…

• Reports of Scientific Meetings on Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

  Matthew Tolchin•ARTICLE•2002

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• FRONTLINE —Psychoanalysis in the Closet or a New Beginning

  Ronald N Turco, Ronald Turco•ARTICLE•2002

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• Dreams and Creativity—Collaborative Psychoanalytic Work

  César A Alfonso, Augusta Wellington•ARTICLE•2002

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  Walter Bonime's contributions to the understanding and interpretation of dreams highlight collaboration and creative effort as essential to achieve appropriate attunement and effective emotional growth. The authors incorporate the theoretical constructs and technical recommendations of Bonime into their clinical work with artists. They describe how creative psychoanalytic work with artists' dreams can promote productivity, spontaneity, emotional …

• Ego-Structuring Psychotherapy

  Palle Villemoes•ARTICLE•2002

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  Psychoanalysis regards psychosis as an early disturbance in the development of the personality, specifically, of the ego. The disturbance occurs during that period prior to the castration complex and thus before the phase when the ordering of relations becomes oedipal. Responsible for this disturbance is, according to Freud, foreclosure (verwerfung) of an important factor that normally accomplishes the primal repression (urverdrängung) and which …

• Jihad, McWorld and Enactment in the Postmodern Mental Health World

  Eric M Plakun•ARTICLE•2002

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  Most clinicians have strong reactions to managed care. This article suggests that managed care, despite its imperfections, shares the same moral imperative as the environmental movement. In a rapidly changing world, skilled clinicians' intense reactions to managed care may lead them unwittingly to participate in enactments involving failure to attend to the emerging meaning of resource limitation in analytic work. A case example is offered as an …

• Psychoanalytic Peregrinations III

  Richard D Chessick•ARTICLE•2002

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  A variety of problems cause a confusion of tongues between the psychoanalyst and the patient. In this sense the psychoanalyst faces the same problems as the translator of a text from one language to another. Examples are given of confusion due cultural differences, confusion due translation differences among translators, confusion due translator prejudice or ignorance, confusion due ambiguous visual cues and images, and confusion due to an inhere…

• The Experience of Borderline Phenomena through Cinema

  Donald R Ross, Marcus Favero•ARTICLE•2002

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  The experience of many patients with borderline personality is intense and kaleidoscopic. These qualities may be represented in film in ways that reflect and convey their essential features that are less readily captured in words. Quentin Tarantino has produced a trilogy of films that bring to light and to life the borderline experience. We use these movies to illustrate and discuss five key borderline themes: the fluid nature of drive derivative…

• Not the Same by Any Other Name

  Shahid Insaf•ARTICLE•2002

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  The names of individuals play a significant role in the organization of ego defenses and the consolidation of identity. Names have several conscious and unconscious meanings to patients in treatment. This article postulates that names also represent similar meanings to the therapist or analyst. The desire or reluctance to address a patient by a particular name can serve as an effective measure of the therapist's countertransference. This provides…

• Psychoanalysis and Visual Art

  Ruth Lijtmaer•ARTICLE•2002

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  Since ancient times, creativity, genius, or special artistic accomplishments have been a topic of curiosity. The case presentation that follows describes a painters resistance to success. The patient's developmental history associated with issues of maternal deprivation and paternal abuse had an effect in her artistic creation. Her economic struggle was another ingredient used defensively for fear of success. As suggested by Ambers and Burke (200…

• Women with PTSD

  Sharon Sageman•ARTICLE•2002

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  The article addresses the psychodynamic issues that influence the psychiatric treatment of women with PTSD. The focus is on the patient's response to the physical and nonverbal elements of treatment including hands-on touch and providing oral medications. The purpose is to help psychiatrists better understand and care for women with PTSD and the better manage the existing barriers to effective treatment. The neuroanatomy and neurobiology of PTSD …

• FRONTLINE —Is There Life After Psychoanalysis? On Retirement From Clinical Practice

  Althea J Horner•ARTICLE•2002

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• Heroin Addiction

  Julie Miller•ARTICLE•2002

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  The etiology of heroin addiction is examined from the perspective of object relations, one psychoanalytic model among many that can offer fruitful understanding. Material is drawn from the literature and from a case example. The major specific focus is on the needle as a transitional object in patients who have experienced early childhood deprivation and separation trauma

• Behind, Beneath, Above, and Beyond

  Timothy J Zeddies•ARTICLE•2002

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  The unconscious is more than a collection of intrapsychic and interpersonal variables. On a broader level, it reflects a complex, historically woven tapestry of moral and ethical values, beliefs, and assumptions. A particular historical context provides an experiential and interpretive template that conditions the boundary between what is conscious and unconscious. Beyond the scope of explicitly inherited values, beliefs, and assumptions is what …

• Psychoanalytic Peregrinations II

  Richard D Chessick•ARTICLE•2002

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  The foundations of psychoanalytic clinical practice involve the role of fantasy, creativity, and imagination as well as the natural science aspects of psychoanalysis. There is a common ground for psychoanalytic technique and we should not in a "politically correct" manner, as is so popular today, abandon the philosophical or Platonic foundationalism that lies at the basis of Freud's psychoanalytic practices. Although it is a "politically incorrec…

• Commentary on “Behind, Beneath, Above, and Beyond

  Althea J Horner•ARTICLE•2002

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• The Object and the Dream

  Ronald Turco•ARTICLE•2002

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  An exploration of unconscious determinants provides useful insights in considering Mark Rothko's creativity and behavioral characteristics. A basic focus is the issue of childhood loss and unresolved grief. The studies of Martha Wolfenstein on preadolescent and childhood parent loss are paramount in considering Rothko the man. Rothko, as a result of early losses, was predisposed to recurrent depressions and bouts of anger which created difficulti…

• A Streetcar Named Desire—Psychoanalytic Perspectives

  Joseph R Silvio•ARTICLE•2002

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  Tennessee Williams expressed in A Streetcar Named Desire aspects of his own psychic conflict that erupted after he reached sudden success with the play's predecessor The Glass Menagerie. Interpretations are suggested about those psychic conflicts and their emotional and behavioral manifestations through an analysis of both the play and the author's life history. In particular, the playwright's childhood experiences within a troubled family, his p…

• Psychoanalytic Peregrinations I

  Richard D Chessick•ARTICLE•2002

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  The various meanings of transference and transference neurosis are reviewed with special attention to the various roles transference plays in the psychoanalytic process. A study of the provenance of transference is offered with some remarks on the crucial emphasis on understanding and interpreting the transference in psychoanalytic treatment. The danger of using other types of interventions as being manifestations of countertransference is sugges…

• From Victim to Heroine

  Ann Ruth Turkel•ARTICLE•2002

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  The need to escape reality and the taste for adventure with the unknown fills a universal need for both adults and children. Fairy tales have a powerful grip on the imagination because they are homespun versions of myths and have passionate intensity without epic grandeur. The happy ending of fairy tales reflects gender stereotyping because the heroine usually does very little except sit, wish, and wait for marriage. She has no control over her d…

• Gender Differences in Defensive Style

  Clarissa W Bullitt, Barry A Farber•ARTICLE•2002

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  This study examines gender differences in defensive style across the domains of work and intimate relationships. Participants (47 women and 38 men) completed two versions (work-related; interpersonally related) of Bond's (1983) Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ). Results showed that, while all participants use primarily mature defenses, they are significantly more likely to use immature defenses in love than at work; men are also significantly mor…

• Oedipal Ties and the Issue of Separation-Individuation in Traditional Confucian Societies

  Walter H Slote•ARTICLE•1992•Citada por: 6

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• The Puerto Rican Family

  Hector R Bird, Héctor Bird et al.•ARTICLE•1982•Citada por: 5

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  We have presented what are considered to be the salient features characteristic of the Puerto Rican family. The composition of the family, the important role of the extended family, the impact of machismo, the authoritarian pattern of child rearing, and the religious practices of the Puerto Rican family have been documented through the findings reported by other researchers. It was noted that the high rate of back-and-forth migration between Puer…

• Treatment of Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans

  Joe Yamamoto, Frank X Acosta•ARTICLE•1982•Citada por: 3•Referências: 4

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• Transcultural Aspects in the Psychotherapy of the Puerto Rican Poor in New York City

  Harvey Bluestone, Ricardo M Vela•ARTICLE•1982•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

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• Obituary

  LEON SALZMAN•ARTICLE•1973

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• Developmental Aspects of Psychological Disturbances

  Kenneth Keniston•ARTICLE•1973

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• Institutional Transference

  Samuel L Safirstein•ARTICLE•1973

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• Gender Identity and Sexual Psychopathology in Men

  Lionel Ovesey, Ethel Spector Person et al.•ARTICLE•1973

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• On Behavior Therapy

  Irving Bieber•ARTICLE•1973

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• Parents of Schizophrenic Children

  Martin Symonds•ARTICLE•1973

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• Gray Areas Between the Schizophrenias and the Depressions

  Rose Spiegel•ARTICLE•1973

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• Depersonalization as a Manifestation of Evolving Health

  Walter Bonime•ARTICLE•1973

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• Perceptual Misinterpretation and Distortion of Social Reality in Schizophrenia

  Charles E Orbach•ARTICLE•1973

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• Unfolding of Identifications

  Esther Greenbaum•ARTICLE•1973

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• Chronic Analysts and Chronic Patients

  Harold Kelman•ARTICLE•1973

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• The Changing Concept of the Irrational and Its Effect on Therapeutic Technique

  Marianne Horney Eckardt•ARTICLE•1973

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• Problems and Methods in Psychoanalytic Research

  Norman Tabachnick•ARTICLE•1973

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• The Irrational in the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

  Gaetano Benedetti•ARTICLE•1973

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• The Dilemma and the Challenge of Being Schizophrenic

  David Shainberg•ARTICLE•1973

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• Depression Following Psychotic Episodes

  Jean Baker Miller, Stephen M Sonnenberg•ARTICLE•1973

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• The Rational Id and the Irrational Ego

  Gerard Chrzanowski•ARTICLE•1973

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• Bio-Communication in Dreams

  Montague Ullman•ARTICLE•1973

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• Schizophrenic Art and Its Relationship to Modern Art

  Silvano Arieti•ARTICLE•1973

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• The Role of the Other in Some Forms of Psychopathology

  Jules R Bemporad•ARTICLE•1973

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• Hamlet's Character

  Duilio T Pedrini, Lura Nancy Gregory•ARTICLE•1973

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• On Ideology and the Psychodynamics of the Ideologue

  Joseph Barnett•ARTICLE•1973

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• Esoteric Identification Processes in Adolescence and Beyond

  John L Schimel•ARTICLE•1973

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• Gender Role, Gender Identity, Core Gender Identity

  John Money•ARTICLE•1973

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• Modern Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice in the Neuroses

  LEON SALZMAN•ARTICLE•1974

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