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Teaching a model of formulation for psychoanalytic assessment reports
Published in Jed A. Yalof, Anthony D. Bram, Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings, 2020
What is the primary problem? In isolating the primary problem, the first question narrows the field to what is most relevant to understanding the particular patient being assessed. Psychoanalytic theory offers an array of possible constructs, including, for example, intrapsychic conflict, ego functioning, object relations, and the cohesiveness and functioning of self-states (Pine, 1998).
Introduction Part 1
Published in Paul Ian Steinberg, Psychoanalysis in Medicine, 2020
Over its history, psychoanalytic theory has encompassed a wide range of issues, including attachment; love, hate, envy, and other powerful affects; conflicts about personal agency, aggression, alienation, money, and intimacy; a search for knowledge; and one’s unconscious images of oneself and others. Sexuality is an important part of human life, and therefore a worthy object of study for psychoanalysis. However, contemporary psychoanalysis is not unduly preoccupied with sexuality. This was more of a preoccupation in Victorian times, and has been replaced with more contemporary concerns about alienation, personal emptiness, and the search for meaning in life.
Cry and response
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
The Oedipal drama is well known in the modern era because of Freud’s famous application of Sophocles’ play to patterns of the unconscious. A widely accessible account of the psychoanalytic understanding of familial interactions is quoted: [The] Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother, and kill his father. Sigmund Freud, who coined the term “Oedipus complex”, believed that the Oedipus complex is a desire for the mother in both sexes.In classical, Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the child’s identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex and of the Electra complex; his and her key psychological experience to developing a mature sexual role and identity.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex) In this formulation there is a focus of desire on certain fantasied events (kill father; sexually possess mother). There is also emphasis on identification with the same sex parent. However, identification is not simply equivalence. In actual development ongoing involvement with parents supports a sense of continuity and a model for learning that depends more on a sense of similarity rather than strict identity.
Defining self-disclosure of personal cancer coping experiences in oncology social workers’ helping relationships: When cancer “hits home”
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Kimberly Lawson, Allison Werner-Lin, Frances Fitzgerald, James Robert Zabora
Solid conceptual support for this research may be found within the relational school of psychodynamic theory, particularly in self psychology and intersubjectivity theory.5 Contrary to traditional psychoanalytic theory, the relational turn toward a two-person psychology recognized that the clinician and client are “two people and two psyches”10 interacting in clinical situations. The clinician has her/his/their “own contents” of mind, but with unique dynamics being “activated and enacted” between client and clinician.11 In this context, a primary focus within the therapeutic relationship is on these dynamics. Berzoff et al.12 write that relational theories “hold that there is more that is the same about client and therapist than is different. This is a shift away from seeing the client as the pathological one and the helper as healed” Berzoff et al.12(p222). The relational school embraces mutual influence in the therapeutic alliance. Whereas once therapist neutrality played a key role in the psychoanalytic relationship, “now the therapist’s associations, musings, and reveries are often seen as a part of the clinical conversation”” Berzoff et al.12(p223).
Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory: Queering the Clinic
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2019
Chrysanthi Nigianni, Angie Voela
Creativity is offered as an alternative to castration but lack does not budge. Can the sinthome accommodate the queer richness of becoming? If psychoanalytic theory subtends clinical practice and queer is also mainly practice—as doing and undoing of norms around gender, sexuality, and bodies—a queer clinic needs to be perceived as a mode of inquiry that acknowledges the violence of norms, power systems, and social exclusions, and promotes change. Instead of merely explaining (a practice that psychoanalytic practice very often falls into and reduces itself to), clinical practice is very much tied to change and transformation, as our patients come to the consulting room with a hope for change, not merely understanding; something is suffering and can no longer be, or something needs to change.
Psychodynamic Analysis of Racialized Interactions: The Get Out Case Study
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2019
Brian Rasmussen, Ann Marie Garran
The unique contributions of Kleinian theory provide powerful ideas that contribute to our understanding of racism and discrimination. Most broadly, as Clarke (2003) argues, “It is the communicative aspect of Kleinian psychoanalytic theory which can help explain the ways in which we think of others, feel about other and, crucially how we make others feel” (p. 123). Central to this way of thinking is the concept of projective identification. Hinshelwood (1989) states: “Projective identification was defined by Klein in 1946 [in “Note on some schizoid mechanisms] as a prototype of the aggressive object relationship, representing an anal attack on an object by means of forcing parts of the ego into it in order to take over its contents or to control it and occurring in the paranoid position from birth” (p. 179). This idea aptly captures one of the central themes in the film – the taking over Chris’s body to totally control it.