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Allan N Schore - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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relational trauma and the developing right brain an interface of psychoanalytic Self Psychology and neuroscience
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009Co-Authors: Allan N SchoreAbstract:Psychoanalysis, the science of unconscious processes, has recently undergone a significant transformation. Self Psychology, derived from the work of Heinz Kohut, represents perhaps the most important revision of Freud's theory as it has shifted its basic core concepts from an intrapsychic to a relational unconscious and from a cognitive ego to an emotion-processing Self. As a result of a common interest in the essential, rapid, bodily based, affective processes that lie beneath conscious awareness, a productive dialogue is now occurring between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Here I apply this interdisciplinary perspective to a deeper understanding of the nonconscious brain/mind/body mechanisms that lie at the core of Self Psychology. I offer a neuropsychoanalytic conception of the development and structuralization of the Self, focusing on the experience-dependent maturation of the emotion-processing right brain in infancy. I then articulate an interdisciplinary model of attachment trauma and pathological dissociation, an early forming defense against overwhelming affect that is a cardinal feature of Self-psychopathologies. I end with some thoughts on the mechanism of the psychotherapeutic change process and suggest that Self Psychology is, in essence, a Psychology of the unique functions of the right brain and that a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and neuroscience is now at hand.
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advances in neuropsychoanalysis attachment theory and trauma research implications for Self Psychology
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2002Co-Authors: Allan N SchoreAbstract:In 1971, Heinz Kohut, trained in neurology and then psychoanalysis, published The Analysis of the Self, a detailed exposition of the central role of the Self in human existence. This classic volume of both twentieth century psychoanalysis and Psychology was more than a collection of various clinical observations—rather it represented an overarching integrated theory of the development, structuralization, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapy of disorders of the Self. Although some of these ideas were elaborations of previous psychoanalytic principles, a large number of his concepts, including an emphasis on Self rather than ego, signified an innovative departure from mainstream psychoanalysis and yet a truly creative addition to Freud's theory.
Estelle Shane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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relational Self Psychology
Psychoanalysis Self and Context, 2017Co-Authors: Barry Magid, Estelle ShaneAbstract:Self Psychology has evolved beyond Kohut’s original one person Psychology into a two person intersubjective theory that we propose can now be best understood as belonging to, and developing through interaction with, the broad spectrum of theories that come under the umbrella of Relationality, which are characterized by some form of bi-directionality and mutual influence. Key to this development has been the restoration of the Selfobject from psychic function to personhood with its own subjectivity upon which the patient can have and recognize an impact. Kohut’s conception of the therapeutic action of the acknowledging and repair of empathic failure can be expanded and enriched by relational ideas of mutual recognition, impact, complementarity, and the Third. Inputs from recent theoretical and experimental developments in the theories of attachment, dynamic systems, and trauma have also contributed to the evolution of what we believe is now a fully Relational Self Psychology.
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developmental systems Self Psychology
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 2009Co-Authors: Estelle ShaneAbstract:In this paper I present a model for psychoanalysis that builds on the developmental systems Self Psychology I developed in 1997 with Morton Shane and Mary Gales. That model incorporated aspects of Self Psychology, attachment theory, infant research data, and nonlinear systems thinking. The theory is discussed not only on its own merits, but also in the context of its shared sensibility with other relational Self psychologies, intersubjective systems theory, and ideas drawn from the relational perspective. Six features of Kohut's Self Psychology are addressed and described both in the way I now consider each of them and as they compare and contrast with aspects of the other theoretical perspectives I have referred to. Specific additions to the 1997 model are featured, along with particular attention to some conceptual reformulations, including the concepts of “positive new experience” and transference.
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mirror neurons procedural learning and the positive new experience a developmental systems Self Psychology approach
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 2000Co-Authors: Nancy S Wolf, Estelle Shane, Mary Gales, Morton ShaneAbstract:In summary, we are impressed with the existence of a mirror neuron system in the prefrontal cortex that serves as part of a complex neural network, including afferent and efferent connections to the limbic system, in particular the amygdala, in addition to the premotor and motor cortex. We think it is possible to arrive at an integration that postulates the mirror neuron system and its many types of associated multimodal neurons as contributing significantly to implicit procedural learning, a process that underlies a range of complex nonconscious, unconscious, preconscious and conscious cognitive activities, from playing musical instruments to character formation and traumatic configurations. This type of brain circuitry may establish an external coherence with developmental systems Self Psychology which implies that positive new experience is meliorative and that the intentional revival of old-old traumatic relational configurations might enhance maladaptive procedural patterns that would lead to the opposite of the intended beneficial change. When analysts revive traumatic transference patterns for the purpose of clarification and interpretation, they may fail to appreciate that such traumatic transference patterns make interpretation ineffective because, as we have stated above, the patient lacks Self-reflection under such traumatic conditions. The continued plasticity and immediacy of the mirror neuron system can contribute to positive new experiences that promote the formation of new, adaptive, implicit-procedural patterns. Perhaps this broadened repertoire in the patient of ways of understanding interrelational events through the psychoanalytic process allows the less adaptive patterns ultimately to become vestigial and the newer, more adaptive patterns to emerge as dominant. Finally, as we have stated, we believe that the intentional transferential revival of trauma (i.e., the old-old relational configuration) may not contribute to therapeutic benefit. In contrast, the revival of trauma in the old-new configuration (i.e., in the presence of a helpful other who can reduce anxiety and foster eventual positive new experience) can be beneficial, as trauma research has demonstrated. This is the process that promotes new implicit-procedural learning, new-new relational configurations, and a richer understanding of the Self narrative.
Hanspeter Hartmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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psychoanalytic Self Psychology and its conceptual development in light of developmental Psychology attachment theory and neuroscience
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009Co-Authors: Hanspeter HartmannAbstract:The chapter starts with a historical overview of the subject of narcissism in psychoanalysis. Some sociophilosophical definitions of narcissism are explained and the connection to Self Psychology is described. It is especially referred to Honneth's Struggle for Recognition, which is related to the need for Selfobject experiences. An outline of different concepts concerning narcissism, especially in the European psychoanalytic tradition, follows and leads to a clearer understanding of Kohut's conception of the Self and its Selfobjects. Because Self Psychology can often be understood as applied developmental Psychology, useful links to attachment research are described and the move to the level of representation by mentalization is clarified. Further development of Self Psychology in the direction of intersubjectivity helps to supply connections to systems theory. Recently developed theories of empathy with reference to neurobiological findings provide a dynamic perspective of the activation of empathy. Thus, empathy seems to be better understood as a sort of contagion on which cognitive cortical processes are superimposed. Finally, the therapeutic process in psychoanalytic Self Psychology is portrayed. This process implies a disruption and repair process by which transmuting internalization can take place. More current theories of Self Psychology view this process in its essence intersubjectively as a co-construction between patient and analyst. The paper concludes with some hints for a paradigm shift in the direction of a more holistic understanding of the Self.
Arthur C. Bohart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Empathy in Client-Centered Therapy: A Contrast with Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1991Co-Authors: Arthur C. BohartAbstract:While empathy is important in psychoanalytic, Self-psychological, and client-centered therapies, its primary function is seen as different in each. For client-centered therapy, the major function o...
Edward Z Tronick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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non interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy the something more than interpretation the process of change study group
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1998Co-Authors: Daniel N Stern, Jeremy P Nahum, Alexandra M Harrison, Karlen Lyonsruth, Alexander C Morgan, Nadia Bruschweilerstern, Louis Sander, Edward Z TronickAbstract:Abstract It is by now generally accepted that something more than interpretation is necessary to bring about therapeutic change. Using an approach based on recent studies of mother-infant interaction and non-linear dynamic systems and their relation to theories of mind, the authors propose that the something more resides in interactional intersubjective process that give rise to what they will call 'implicit relational knowing'. This relational procedural domain is intrapsychically distinct from the symbolic domain. In the analytic relationship it comprises intersubjective moments occurring between patient and analyst that can create new organisations in, or reorganise not only the relationship between the interactants, but more importantly the patient's implicit procedural knowledge, his ways of being with others. The distinct qualities and consequences of these moments (now moments, 'moments of meeting') are modelled and discussed in terms of a sequencing process that they call moving along. Conceptions of the shared implicit relationship, transference and countertransference are discussed within the parameters of this perspective, which is distinguished from other relational theories and Self-Psychology. In sum, powerful therapeutic action occurs within implicit relational knowledge. They propose that much of what is observed to be lasting therapeutic effect results from such changes in this intersubjective relational domain.
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non interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy the something more than interpretation
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1998Co-Authors: Daniel N Stern, Louis W Sander, Jeremy P Nahum, Alexandra M Harrison, Karlen Lyonsruth, Alexander C Morgan, Nadia Bruschweilerstern, Edward Z TronickAbstract:It is by now generally accepted that something more than interpretation is necessary to bring about therapeutic change. Using an approach based on recent studies of mother-infant interaction and non-linear dynamic systems and their relation to theories of mind, the authors propose that the something more resides in interactional intersubjective process that give rise to what they will call ‘implicit relational knowing’. This relational procedural domain is intrapsychically distinct from the symbolic domain. In the analytic relationship it comprises intersubjective moments occurring between patient and analyst that can create new organisations in, or reorganise not only the relationship between the interactants, but more importantly the patient's implicit procedural knowledge, his ways of being with others. The distinct qualities and consequences of these moments (now moments, ‘moments of meeting’) are modelled and discussed in terms of a sequencing process that they call moving along. Conceptions of the shared implicit relationship, transference and countertransference are discussed within the parameters of this perspective, which is distinguished from other relational theories and Self-Psychology. In sum, powerful therapeutic action occurs within implicit relational knowledge. They propose that much of what is observed to be lasting therapeutic effect results from such changes in this intersubjective relational domain.
