Psychoanalysis - Methods
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view.

30 Jul 2009 With the help of clinical examples, the author shows that psychoanalysis or psychotherapy after the age of 70 can be a fascinating experience, one that enables patients to reconstruct their internal history in such a way that their final years can ... Read more...

The conversation group: using group psychoanalytic techniques to resolve resistances of recently immigrated Chinese students to learning English in a high school setting.

29 Jun 2009 Does group psychoanalytic theory and technique have an application in an ordinary high school classroom? In this article, the writer describes a research project in which she attempts to answer this question by applying the techniques with a group ... Read more...

Regression in the countertransference: working with the archetype of the abandoned child.

30 May 2009 The author describes briefly some experiences of his sense of non-existence as an analyst in relation to five patients. He considers the possible countertransference significance of these experiences and puts forward a hypothesis that his sense of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychoanalysis - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The status of developmental curriculum in North American psychoanalysis. 30 Jul 2009
• Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view. 30 Jul 2009
• The conversation group: using group psychoanalytic techniques to resolve resistances of recently immigrated Chinese students to learning English in a high school setting. 29 Jun 2009
• Regression in the countertransference: working with the archetype of the abandoned child. 30 May 2009
• Archetypes as action patterns. 30 May 2009
• Psychoanalysis and the Hindi cinema. 30 May 2009
• The crossroads of countertransference and attribution theory: reinventing clinical training within an evidence-based treatment world. 30 May 2009
• Brain Fag Syndrome - a myth or a reality. 29 Apr 2009
• On becoming a psychoanalyst. 30 Mar 2009
• My relational self psychology. 30 Mar 2009
• Selfobject as dramatis personae: cultivating the improvisational in self-psychological psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• Embracing the limits of psychoanalysis: a dialogic approach to healing. 30 Mar 2009
• A self-psychological approach to the study of biography: the interplay of narratives in psychoanalysis and biography. 30 Mar 2009
• Empathic understanding: the foundation of self-psychological psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• Trauma-centered psychoanalysis: transforming experiences of unbearable uncertainty. 30 Mar 2009
• One case, four theories: finding Matthew. 30 Mar 2009
• What kind of research in psychoanalytic science? 30 Jan 2009
• Implications of the current insolubility of the mind-brain problem for the contemporary practice of psychodynamic psychiatry. 30 Dec 2008
• A Boston Yankee: Paul M. Lerner and the heart of assessment. 30 Dec 2008
• The ecological dimension of psychoanalysis and the concept of inner sustainability. 29 Nov 2008

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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;

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