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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Developmental context effects on bicultural posttrauma self repair in chimpanzees.

30 Aug 2009 Longitudinal studies have shown how early developmental contexts contribute significantly to self-development; their influence extends through adulthood, informs sociality, and affects resilience under severe stress. While the importance of ... Read more...

[Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease: a psychoanalytic approach]

30 Aug 2009 Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease concerns successively mind and body. The disturbance of the body image is emphasized from the first stage of the disease to that of physical dependency. Identity disorder is also implicated in the caring ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychoanalytic Theory'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Torture and attachment: conscience and the analyst's world-seeing eye. 29 Sep 2009
• Magritte, the work of art, and Lacan's three dimensions of experience: from idealization to sublimation, from resemblance to similitude, and from the id to it. 29 Sep 2009
• "Psychoanalysis and the unconscious" and D.W. Winnicott's transitional and related phenomena. 29 Sep 2009
• The piano teacher: a case study in perversion and sadomasochism. 29 Sep 2009
• Developmental context effects on bicultural posttrauma self repair in chimpanzees. 30 Aug 2009
• [Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease: a psychoanalytic approach] 30 Aug 2009
• Charles Brenner, M.D. 30 Jul 2009
• On: Can you push a camel through the eye of a needle? 30 Jul 2009
• The status of developmental curriculum in North American psychoanalysis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• The War Memoirs: some origins of the thought of W. R. Bion. 30 Jul 2009
• Dreaming as a 'curtain of illusion': revisiting the 'royal road' with Bion as our guide. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• On love, hate and knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Internet interaction: the effects on patients' lives and analytic process. Panel report. 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
• Freud's Botanical Monograph screen memory revisited. 30 Jul 2009
• The need not to believe: Freud's godlessness reconsidered. 30 Jul 2009
• A psychoanalytic exploration of collective trauma among Indigenous Australians and a suggestion for intervention. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychoanalytic Theory'

Definition: Conceptual system developed by Freud and his followers in which unconscious motivations are considered to shape normal and abnormal personality development and behavior.

Descriptor UI: D011574

Alternative terms: Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytical Theory; Psychoanalytical Theories; Theories, Psychoanalytical; Theory, Psychoanalytical; Theory, Psychoanalytic; Psychoanalytic Theories; Theories, Psychoanalytic; Oral Character; Character, Oral; Characters, Oral; Oral Characters;

Tree Number: F02.739.794;

History Note: 66; ORAL CHARACTER was heading 1975-96 (see under PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1975-90)

Technical Notes: IM; no qualif; /hist = PSYCHOANALYSIS /hist; differentiate from PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION in that the theory is on a more universal, less subjective level