Psychoanalytic Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis.

30 Jul 2009 Some psychotic patients manage to create nothingness and emptiness thanks to the amount of work their ego accomplishes. That is the paradox we find in schizophrenic patients, their ego is simultaneously weak and powerful. When we analyse how this ... 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...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychoanalytic Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Torture and attachment: conscience and the analyst's world-seeing eye. 29 Sep 2009
• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view. 30 Jul 2009
• Being seen or being watched? A psychoanalytic perspective on body dysmorphia. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• Internet interaction: the effects on patients' lives and analytic process. Panel report. 30 Jul 2009
• Research in child psychoanalysis: twenty-five-year follow-up of a severely disturbed child. 30 Jul 2009
• A cross-sectional survey of child and adolescent analysts in New York City. 30 Jul 2009
• Child analytic training: the establishment of a separate training track at institutes of the american psychoanalytic association. 30 Jul 2009
• Innovation in child psychoanalytic training: an implementation study. 30 Jul 2009
• Privacy and disclosure in psychoanalysis. 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
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• Psychoanalytic perspectives on early trauma: interviews with thirty analysts who treated an adult victim of a circumscribed trauma in early childhood. 20 Jul 2009
• One to watch? 29 Jun 2009
• Psychosocial interventions for adolescent cancer patients: a systematic review of the literature. 29 Jun 2009
• Evaluation of an outpatient intervention for women with severe depression and a history of childhood trauma. 29 Jun 2009
• Affect education and the development of the interpersonal ego in modern group psychoanalysis. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychoanalytic Therapy'

Definition: A form of psychiatric treatment, based on Freudian principles, which seeks to eliminate or diminish the undesirable effects of unconscious conflicts by making the patient aware of their existence, origin, and inappropriate expression in current emotions and behavior.

Descriptor UI: D011575

Alternative terms: Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychoanalytical Therapy; Psychoanalytical Therapies; Therapies, Psychoanalytical; Therapy, Psychoanalytical; Therapy, Psychoanalytic; Psychoanalytic Therapies; Therapies, Psychoanalytic; Balint Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychoanalytic Therapy, Balint; Therapy, Balint Psychoanalytic;

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

Tree Number: F04.754.709;

Technical Notes: a psychother technique; DF: PSYCHOANAL THER