Chapter 5 Peter: A Study of Cumulative Trauma — From «Robot» to «Regular Guy» starts with short but excellent summary of the history and development of
psychoanalytic concepts and therapy with children.
While this therapy is based on
psychoanalytic concepts and methods that began with Freud, it has continuously evolved over the past 120 years, and a great deal of scientific evidence now supports the effectiveness of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy for treating a wide range of problems including depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, relational patterns, and identity issues.
He began planning how to scientifically scrutinize
psychoanalytic concepts, starting with Freud.
My training in psychotherapy was strongly influenced by
psychoanalytic concepts and methods.
Otto Pollak, «Sociological and
Psychoanalytic Concepts in Family Diagnosis,» The Psychotherapy of Marital Disharmonies, ed.
The influence of
psychoanalytic concepts gradually re moved this moralism, revealing the manner in which behavior is conditioned by early experiences and by unconscious forces which are not subject to the will.
In addition,
the psychoanalytic concept that alcoholic behavior is determined in large measure by subconscious factors (beyond the realm of willpower) had a tremendous guilt - reducing effect.
[jounal] Bordin, E.S / 1979 / The generalizability of
the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance / Journal of Psychotherapy 16: 252 ~ 260
Not exact matches
For a superb summary of how the
concept of relation functions within contemporary personality theory see, Stephen A. Mitchell, Relational
Concepts in Psychoanalysis (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988) and Jay R. Greenberg and Stephen A. Mitchell, Object Relations in
Psychoanalytic Theory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983).
When dealing in counseling and therapy with problems of immature or distorted conscience — e.g., neurotic guilt or lack of appropriate guilt — these insights, as they have been refined and developed subsequently by other
psychoanalytic thin - kers, are invaluable working
concepts.
Originally made for public television, these remarkably ambitious and tacitly autobiographical videos show Downey drawing on linguistic,
psychoanalytic, art historical and semiotic theory to unravel some of the foundational
concepts of Western culture, such as the idea of «the self».
Taking Jacques Lacan's
concept of the «mirror stage» — a
psychoanalytic stage of human development in which the infant first encounters an image of itself (often via a mirror) and begins to perceive the notion of selfhood — as its starting point, this exhibition explores how we as human beings now reencounter and reimagine the self via the myriad of screens we encounter in our digital lives.
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.
The
concept of the therapeutic alliance: Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association Vol 40 (4) 1992, 1059 - 1087.
The evolution of this
concept gave rise to far reaching and diverse clinical implications in the differing branches of the
psychoanalytic tradition.
From a
psychoanalytic purist's position, there are two important concerns which, unaddressed, would constitute possible misuse of psychoanalytical
concepts:
There were drawn from
psychoanalytic therapies, Gestalt, Family Systems Theory, Transactional Analysis, Rational Emotive Therapy and the
concepts of Erik Erikson and Carl Rogers.