Several different approaches to brief psychodynamic psychotherapy have evolved
from psychoanalytic theory and have been clinically applied to a wide range of psychological disorders.
Using insight mined
from psychoanalytic theory, Dykstra likens the biblical text to a transitional object that offers «intimacy without invasion and individuality without isolation.»
Not exact matches
It was one of the reasons for the bitter public feud and name - calling between Alfred Adler (the prominent behavioral psychologist who helped popularize the
theory) and his erstwhile colleague and friend Sigmund Freud (who resented Adler for moving away
from a neural - based
psychoanalytic approach and toward an individual, context - based psychology).
Quoted
from Phyllis Greenacre in Karl Menninger, The
Theory of
Psychoanalytic Technique (New York: Basic Books, 1962, p. 78; London: Hogarth Press, 1958).
While my strengths lie in working
from a
psychoanalytic perspective, I have unique training in complementary and alternative medicine for mental health, feminist
theory in counseling, and behavioral medicine.
Harvard neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson used recordings of brain activity
from sleeping people to gleefully trash
psychoanalytic dream
theory, and by implication, the central Freudian ideas of censorship and repression.
Following director Sophie Fiennes» 2006 «The Pervert's Guide to Cinema,» this sequel involves Zizek in various costumes
from famous films while discussing
psychoanalytic theory, digging into the profound ideas about society and the human condition as far reaching as «The Searchers» and «Taxi Driver.»
In this excerpt
from Phaidon's Mary Kelly monograph, Kelly speaks to renown art historian and AIDS scholar Douglas Crimp (who curated the first Pictures exhibition that introduced appropriation artists like Sherrie Levine and spearheaded postmodern art
theory) on how she sees her work in relation to feminism (s) and why the later conceptual or «theoretical» feminism's turn to the
psychoanalytic subject is always political.
Informed by a broad range of subject matter
from anthropological studies of pre-language mark making by humans, 20th century art history, and Melanie Klein's
psychoanalytic theory of object relation, Black's central concern is to immerse herself in the seemingly inexplicable compulsion to make art.
Marlene Steyn's work takes shape in the unsettling of established ideas surrounding themes of
psychoanalytic theory, historical narratives of art and popular signifiers borrowed
from contemporary culture.
I work largely
from the perspective of intersubjective
psychoanalytic theory and object relations
theory.
The theoretical model outlined above stems directly
from Attachment
Theory, called in oldspeak, conflict resolution,
psychoanalytic hydraulic pressure
from sexuality, faulty conditioning by the behavioral - cognitive therapists, genetic predisposition
from the biology folks, or the Existential belief in the absurd.
No small wonder then, when John Bowlby a psychiatrist himself, formulated attachment
theory (Bowlby, 1969 / 1982) which he saw as an attempt to better understand human development and that recognized concepts
from both models, that he was immediately ostracized by the
psychoanalytic community.
His work represented a significant move away
from the
psychoanalytic focus on the inner world as he developed a
theory to explain behaviour which took account of external events.
Some
psychoanalytic theory is very much alive and at work in the world, even as «the couch» disappears
from modern therapeutic practice.
This was a time when
psychoanalytic theory — the notion, based on Freud's work, that psychological problems stem
from unconscious conflicts and motivations — was seen with great skepticism.
Erik Erikson (1950, 1963) proposed a
psychoanalytic theory of psychosocial development comprising eight stages
from infancy to adulthood.
Since he had been trained in
psychoanalytic theory, Bowlby was not initially convinced of the importance of emotional needs not derived
from biological drives.
There were drawn
from psychoanalytic therapies, Gestalt, Family Systems
Theory, Transactional Analysis, Rational Emotive Therapy and the concepts of Erik Erikson and Carl Rogers.
[1][3] There was initially a strong influence
from psychoanalysis (most of the early founders of the field had
psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later
from learning
theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various
theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.