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Guo Ben-yu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Integration Logic of Psychoanalysis Movement
Journal of Nanjing Normal University, 2007Co-Authors: Guo Ben-yuAbstract:A century history of Psychoanalysis movement is also the history of division and integration.By its integration,Psychoanalysis continuously overcame its one-sideness and extremes and gradually trended to mutual absorption and fusion which expressed in the interactions of its different developmental stages,of various kinds of internal models and the relationship between Psychoanalysis and other external subjects.In accord with its development logic,the integration logic of Psychoanalysis movement includes internal integration and external integration.Internal integration is the integration between its internal models,including Jacobson's integration of ego theory,Kernberg's integration of object relation theory,Kohut's integration of self theory and Mitchell's integration of relation theory.External integration is the integration of Psychoanalysis and other subjects such as sociology,culturology,philosophy,linguistics,medicine and neuroscience,including sociocultural school's integration of cultural theory,existential Psychoanalysis's integration of humanism theory,Lacan's integration of linguistic theory and the neuroscience's integration of scientization.Both the internal integration and external integration promote the continuously forward development of Psychoanalysis movement.
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Development Logic of Psychoanalysis Movement
Journal of Nanjing Normal University, 2006Co-Authors: Guo Ben-yuAbstract:Psychoanalysis,founded by Freud,has a history of more than 100 years.The development is along two routes.Based on the Drive Model,the internal development has evolved gradually to the Ego Model,the Rational Model and the Self Model.The external development has behaved as Sociocultural School,Existentialist Psychoanalysis,Marxist Psychoanalysis and Postmodern Psychoanalysis.The paper adumbrates the development of Psychoanalysis movement based on the two developmental routes.
Anne Worthington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Teaching Psychoanalysis in the university
2014Co-Authors: David Henderson, Anne WorthingtonAbstract:This paper reflects on pedagogical issues that arise in teaching Psychoanalysis in a large research university. Members of the Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University, London, UK, teach psychoanalytic history and concepts, crucially the concepts of the unconscious and transference, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 3rd year undergraduate psychology students can undertake an option module entitled Psychoanalysis in Context. Students on the MA Psychoanalysis have modules on the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement; Key Clinical Concepts; Psychoanalysis, Culture and society; and Clinical Methodologies. In addition, they write a 1S, OOO word dissertation. PhD students have undertaken research on a range of themes, including cultural theory, gender, terrorism, guilt, phobia, visual representation and financial corruption.
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Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory: as yet an “unrealised promise”?
2013Co-Authors: Anne WorthingtonAbstract:An engagement between Psychoanalysis and queer theory would seem to offer a “certain promise”. Through a consideration of the work of queer theorists, psychoanalysts may come to think differently about their clinical practice, sex, sexuality, love, the body, ethics and identity. And the project of queer theory may be advanced by a reading of a Psychoanalysis, which gives emphasis to the inherent instability of sexed subjectivity and proposes a theory of sexual difference not based on anatomical difference. Albeit from different standpoints, both disciplines foreground subjectivity, desire and sexuality. Therefore, it would seem fruitful to investigate the intersection of both fields, exploring what might be produced from their engagement. My paper will elaborate the shared conceptual ground between queer theory and Psychoanalysis on the topic of same sex desire between women. I adopt the term “female homosexual” to reflect a conformity that can be seen in the published clinical work of psycho-practitioners who have engaged with queer theory’s challenge to Psychoanalysis with both Freud and those psychoanalysts who proposed revisions to his theories in the 1920s and 30s. Through an analysis of contemporary (post-queer) published clinical case histories, I will examine the impact of the engagement between the queer theory and Psychoanalysis on the clinic of female homosexuality, and suggest it may signal the eventual disappointment of that “certain promise”. Thus I address the potentiality of a more rigorous engagement with a Psychoanalysis that is informed by Lacan’s “re-reading” of Freud and by which both melancholia and kink can be read as solutions to the problem of being human and by which prevalent notions of masculinity and femininity can be challenged and undermined.
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FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY: Psychoanalysis AND QUEER THEORY
2011Co-Authors: Anne WorthingtonAbstract:My thesis is that psychoanalytic discourse always characterises homosexual women as masculine. I evidence this through an examination of published psychoanalytic case histories of female homosexuals from 1920 to the present day. Informed by Foucault‘s genealogical methodology, I propose that this characterisation constitutes an ―unconscious rule‖, which transcends the differences between the various schools of Psychoanalysis, and which has remained constant throughout its history and impervious to the challenges and critiques of its theory and practice. Since the late 1980s, the most recent critical engagement with Psychoanalysis has come from queer theory. I argue that, despite the apparent promise of this engagement, queer theory, like Psychoanalysis, is subjected to the same ―rule‖: lesbians are masculine. Some have claimed that the topic of female homosexuality has been neglected by psychoanalysts. I dispute this idea, and through an examination of published clinical case histories I provide evidence of its sustained engagement with the topic. Feminist commentators have pointed to the elision of the feminine in psychoanalytic discourse. Queer theory has challenged feminism, which, it claims, neglected the specificity of the experience of homosexual women. Again through an examination of published clinical material, I investigate the specificity of female homosexuality as conceptualised by psychoanalytic practitioners. I re-read the debate of 1920s-30s within Psychoanalysis, commonly referred to as the debate on feminine sexuality, proposing that it would be more accurate to describe this as a debate on the question of female (homo)sexuality. While it is claimed in the literature that the debate concluded with the outbreak of WW2, my investigation of published case histories demonstrates that this was not the case. My pursuit of the debate through a reading of published case histories follows a particular trajectory of the revisions and departures from Freud, which I characterise as the Anglo-American school. The literature on the topic identifies only one conceptualisation of female homosexuality in Freud‘s work, informed by Freud‘s only published case history of a female homosexual (1920). It is my contention that Freud theorized female homosexuality in three ways, all of which represent an Oedipal solution. I examine queer theory‘s engagement with Psychoanalysis and identify two strands to that engagement. Firstly, queer theory restores Psychoanalysis as a radical project, which proffers an analysis of sex and sexed subjectivity that is not complementary and biologically explained, and not in the service of (re)production. Secondly, I identify a queer mirroring of psychoanalyses‘ elision of the specificities of feminine (homo)sexualities, which logically cannot exist within queer discourse. Finally, I examine the effects of queer theory on the psychoanalytic clinic of female homosexuality. Two contradictory effects are proposed. On the one hand, a greater interest in the topic of female homosexuality can be detected, countering what is deemed to be the prevailing pathologising view of psychoanalytic thinking about female homosexuality. On the other, female homosexuality is marginalized, by less privilege being given to the object choice and the unconscious fantasies of the patients discussed by comparison with the work published by Freud and his contemporaries. Nonetheless, although less explicit in some published work, the ―unconscious rule‖ remains in place.
R Ruskin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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characteristics of psychoanalytic patients under a nationalized health plan dsm iii r diagnoses previous treatment and childhood trauma
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994Co-Authors: Norman Doidge, Barry Simon, L A Gillies, R RuskinAbstract:OBJECTIVE: This article reports the results of a survey to collect data on the characteristics of patients in Psychoanalysis under a nationalized health insurance scheme. METHOD: A questionnaire, to be answered anonymously, was sent to all 174 accredited psychoanalysts in Ontario, Canada. Part 1 of the questionnaire consisted of 38 questions on the analyst's pattern of practice. Part 2, also to be filled out by the analyst, consisted of 452 questions on the demographic characteristics, childhood traumas, DSM-III-R diagnoses, and indications for Psychoanalysis of each of the analyst's patients. RESULTS: One hundred seventeen analysts responded--a survey response rate of 67%--with data on 580 patients. Fifty-nine percent (N = 344) of patients were women, and 41% (N = 236) were men. Eighty-two percent had attempted other forms of treatment, including briefer forms of psychotherapy and medication, prior to Psychoanalysis. During childhood, 23% had had traumatic separations, 23% had been sexually abused, 22% had been physically abused, and 21% had had a parent or sibling die. The mean number of adult psychiatric disorders at the beginning of analysis was four, and the mode was two. CONCLUSIONS: In a nationalized health insurance scheme, the psychoanalytic patients were mostly women, they had high rates of trauma and psychopathology, and they had attempted other forms of briefer treatment before resorting to Psychoanalysis.
Norman Doidge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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psychoanalytic patients in the u s canada and australia i dsm iii r disorders indications previous treatment medications and length of treatment
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2002Co-Authors: Norman Doidge, Barry Simon, Lee Brauer, Donald C Grant, Michael B First, Jacqueline Brunshaw, William J Lancee, Annette Stevens, John M Oldham, Paul W MosherAbstract:To determine the demographics, DSM-III-R disorders diagnosed, indications used in recommending Psychoanalysis, previous treatment histories, use of medication, and length of treatment in patients in Psychoanalysis in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, a mail survey of practice was sent to every other active member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and every member of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. This supplemented an earlier survey sent to all Ontario psychoanalysts. The response rates were 40.1 % (n=342) for the U.S., 67.2% (n=117) for Canada, and 73.9% (n=51) for Australia. Respondents supplied data on 1,718 patients. The employment rate for patients increases as analysis progresses (p < .0001). The mean number of concurrent categories of disorders (Axis I, Axis II, and Disorders First Evident in Childhood) per patient at the start of treatment is 5.01 (SD=3.66; median=4; mode=3). There are no statistically significant differences across countries. Mood, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, an...
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characteristics of psychoanalytic patients under a nationalized health plan dsm iii r diagnoses previous treatment and childhood trauma
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1994Co-Authors: Norman Doidge, Barry Simon, L A Gillies, R RuskinAbstract:OBJECTIVE: This article reports the results of a survey to collect data on the characteristics of patients in Psychoanalysis under a nationalized health insurance scheme. METHOD: A questionnaire, to be answered anonymously, was sent to all 174 accredited psychoanalysts in Ontario, Canada. Part 1 of the questionnaire consisted of 38 questions on the analyst's pattern of practice. Part 2, also to be filled out by the analyst, consisted of 452 questions on the demographic characteristics, childhood traumas, DSM-III-R diagnoses, and indications for Psychoanalysis of each of the analyst's patients. RESULTS: One hundred seventeen analysts responded--a survey response rate of 67%--with data on 580 patients. Fifty-nine percent (N = 344) of patients were women, and 41% (N = 236) were men. Eighty-two percent had attempted other forms of treatment, including briefer forms of psychotherapy and medication, prior to Psychoanalysis. During childhood, 23% had had traumatic separations, 23% had been sexually abused, 22% had been physically abused, and 21% had had a parent or sibling die. The mean number of adult psychiatric disorders at the beginning of analysis was four, and the mode was two. CONCLUSIONS: In a nationalized health insurance scheme, the psychoanalytic patients were mostly women, they had high rates of trauma and psychopathology, and they had attempted other forms of briefer treatment before resorting to Psychoanalysis.
Angela Iannitelli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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psychodynamically oriented psychopharmacotherapy towards a necessary synthesis
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019Co-Authors: Angela Iannitelli, Serena Parnanzone, Giulia Pizziconi, Giulia Riccobono, Francesca PacittiAbstract:The discovery of Psychoanalysis and of psychotropic medications represent two radical events in understanding and treatment of mental suffering. The growth of both disciplines together with the awareness of the impracticality of curing mental suffering only through pharmacological molecules-the collapse of the "Great Illusion"-and the experience of psychoanalysts using psychotropic medications along with depth psychotherapeutic treatment, have led to integrated therapies which are arguably more effective than either modality alone. The authors review studies on the role of pharmacotherapy with Psychoanalysis, and the role of the analyst as the prescriber. The psychotic disorders have specifically been considered from this perspective.
