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Joseph Caston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Agency as a Psychoanalytic Idea
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2011Co-Authors: Joseph CastonAbstract:Competent agency is a basic assumption of Psychoanalytic change. Yet as an aspect of health, personal agency has in the main been only intuitively addressed and remains clinically unsystematized. Here experience-near and observer-centered criteria are developed that assess a person-as-agent’s competence in particular domains. These Ideas, clinically illustrated, stand as an operational framework that helps thinking and talking about agency in everyday clinical events and Psychoanalytic outcomes. Three specific criteria are proposed: reversibility, self-observation, and appropriateness. The first is descriptively polar; together the three apply to each given context of action. They can also serve to ground future research. In this regard, several empirical Psychoanalytic studies of adults and children that exemplify measurable aspects of agency are reviewed. Once clinical markers of personal agency are articulated, it will not be necessary to resolve the free will debate: pragmatically, we need only put su...
Larry Hirschhorn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Primary Risk
Human Relations, 1999Co-Authors: Larry HirschhornAbstract:In the Tavistock tradition, we understand anorganization by first identifying its primary task. Weask, what is this organization set up to do, how is itorganized to accomplish this objective, and what unconscious dynamics limit or distort itsmembers' ability to do their work? This approach whilepowerful, does not help us understand organizations thatlive at strategic junctures in their life cycles. In these situations, the task is to choose atask. We need a conceptual framework to help usunderstand the psychodynamics of organizing and decidingin these situations. The following article develops the concept of the “primary risk”to explain how organizations behave in these situations.It links the primary risk to the Psychoanalytic Idea ofambivalence and the gestalt Idea of the figure/ground relationship. It draws on case material toilluminate its concepts.
Janet Smithson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Containment? An investigation into Psychoanalytic containment in the NHS in relation to someone with a diagnosis of personality disorder
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2019Co-Authors: Elizabeth Weightman, Janet SmithsonAbstract:This research investigated the Psychoanalytic Idea of containment in the context of NHS staff responses to a person diagnosed with personality disorder. The aim was to identify what, if any, contai...
Yiukee Chan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Experience into Psychoanalytic Ideas : a psychobiographical study of Ferenczi's Introjection
2015Co-Authors: Yiukee ChanAbstract:How does experience become a Psychoanalytic Idea? The case of Ferenczi may provide an answer. Ferenczi played an important and yet controversial role in the development of psychoanalysis. Most of the past Ferenczi studies are either about Ferenczi’s Psychoanalytic Ideas or life. The former usually point towards Ferenczi’s foresight and creativity in advancing the Psychoanalytic movement. The latter, focus more on his relationship with Freud, especially his suffering and wounds, see him more as a victim. These two streams of research, however, rarely cross over one another. This thesis, a psycho-biographical one, provides this missing perspective. Ferenczi is noted for his introjective character, as Borgogno (2011) names him the ‘introjective psychoanalyst’. Amongst Ferenczi’s Ideas, Introjection is chosen for this study because the phenomenon behind this concept may be prevalent in his relationship with Freud. This relationship is for him to gestate his Ideas, not just intellectually but experientially, i.e., Psychoanalytically. Given Ferenczi’s merging life with psychoanalysis, it is hypothesized that as and before Ferenczi writes about Introjection, he has been living it in this relationship. I search for evidence for this hypothesis by meticulous mapping of the connection between this relationship and Ferenczi’s writings, using historical documents, notably correspondence, and published papers, available. In this historiographic and conceptual study, I strive for a more historically informed position between denigration and Idealization in the restoration of Ferenczi and his Idea. It is important, given the controversial nature of his character and Ideas. This study would throw light on Ferenczi’s inner and relational world and their connection to introjection. It is concluded that the hypothesis is supported. Although Ferenczi pays a price, his Idea evolves and lives on. This thesis contributes to an understanding of the making of an Idea and advancement of knowledge in the history of psychoanalysis.
Elizabeth Weightman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Containment? An investigation into Psychoanalytic containment in the NHS in relation to someone with a diagnosis of personality disorder
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2019Co-Authors: Elizabeth Weightman, Janet SmithsonAbstract:This research investigated the Psychoanalytic Idea of containment in the context of NHS staff responses to a person diagnosed with personality disorder. The aim was to identify what, if any, contai...
