Psychoanalysis - History
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The War Memoirs: some origins of the thought of W. R. Bion.

30 Jul 2009 The work of W. R. Bion changed the shape of psychoanalytic theory in fundamental ways, one of the most important of which was Bion's insight into the nature of normal projective identification. No other psychoanalytic theorist has Bion's ability to ... Read more...

Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex.

29 Jun 2009 In the spirit of Freud's invitation to other investigators to elaborate on his "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (1909), the author offers additional and differing views on the case of the Rat Man (Dr. Ernst Langer). These views have been ... Read more...

Little Hans: masculinity foretold.

29 Jun 2009 Joining the centennial reexamination of Freud's "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy" (I909a), the author returns to Little Hans as the Ur psychoanalytic boy. Hans's construction and acts of consciousness continue to endow the psychoanalytic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychoanalysis - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Charles Brenner, M.D. 30 Jul 2009
• The War Memoirs: some origins of the thought of W. R. Bion. 30 Jul 2009
• Revisiting Searles's paper "The Patient as a Therapist to the Therapist": the analyst's personal in the interpersonal. 30 Jul 2009
• Listening to Schreber: formulations derived from an analytic close reading of his memoirs. 30 Jul 2009
• The three kings: Harry Benjamin, John Money, Robert Stoller. 30 Jul 2009
• Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex. 29 Jun 2009
• Little Hans: masculinity foretold. 29 Jun 2009
• Interview of Charles Brenner by Robert Michels. On the occasion of the publication of Psychoanalysis or Mind and Meaning. 29 Jun 2009
• In his own word: Charles Brenner (1913-2008). 29 Jun 2009
• "After a long pause": how to read Dora as history. 13 Jun 2009
• The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood. 30 May 2009
• The Michael Fordham Prize for 2008. 30 May 2009
• The crossroads of countertransference and attribution theory: reinventing clinical training within an evidence-based treatment world. 30 May 2009
• The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context. 30 May 2009
• Looking back, looking forward: a reexamination of Benjamin Wolstein's interlock and the emergence of intersubjectivity. 30 May 2009
• Fenichel's 175 topics of discussion about Freud's three contributions to the theory of sex. 30 May 2009
• Freud's castles in the air. 30 May 2009
• From self psychology to selves in relationship: a radical process of micro and macro expansion in conceptual experience. 30 Mar 2009
• My life with self psychology. 30 Mar 2009
• Some key features in the evolution of self psychology and psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychoanalysis'

Definition: The separation or resolution of the psyche into its constituent elements. The term has two separate meanings: 1. a procedure devised by Sigmund Freud, for investigating mental processes by means of free association, dream interpretation and interpretation of resistance and transference manifestations; and 2. a theory of psychology developed by Freud from his clinical experience with hysterical patients. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 1996).

Descriptor UI: D011572

Alternative terms: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalyses;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.544.779;

Technical Notes: SPEC only: SPEC qualif; as ther = PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY