The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2011
Clay C Whitehead
The neo-psychoanalytic paradigm re-establishes the connection between psychodynamics and evolution. This allows us to transcend the limitations of dualistic metapsychology, and to make seminal contributions to traditional science. The new paradigm employs the concept of emergence, the potential for change in the evolutionary and clinical process. Emergence is described as originating with the...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2011
Myron L Glucksman, Milton Kramer
The authors collected the initial dreams of treatment from 63 patients and independently evaluated the manifest dream report (MDR). Variables included: Affect and Valence of Affect; Associations; Psychodynamic Theme; Psychodynamic Theme as Predictor of Core Psychodynamic Issues; Transference; Gender; Psychodynamic Theme Categories; Clinical Progress in relation to Psychodynamic Theme Categories...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Pamela J Holliman
An account is offered of a longterm psychotherapy with a patient for whom religious experience, especially her image of God, was central in the work of the therapy. The patient's image of God is explored psychodynamically in order to discern the impact this image had on the therapeutic relationship as well as the patient's growth.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Ana-María Rizzuto
Parental figures influence the type of religious experiences a person may have. Clinical material from the analysis of a young woman documents the importance of having an actual sacred space in which one can be oneself in religious life and a psychoanalytic space during treatment to progressively experience oneself.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Kevin Fauteux
This work examines the regressive nature of religious experience and suggests that some people's experience repairs the underlying wounds that in part motivated the regression while others remained fixated in the blissful absence of those wounds. It also investigates what takes place in those experiences that become reparative as opposed to what might happen in those that lead to permanent...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Moshe Halevi Spero, Mariam Cohen
An introduction is presented to a symposium discussing the way in which the representation of the image of God can affect the analytic dialogue and process, focusing on the beliefs and images of the analyst as well as the analysand. If, as theorized, an image or a concept identified as "God" is an ineluctable element of the development of the human mind (whatever else this image may or may not...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Gilead Nachmani
This article considers the relationship between post-Kleinian psychoanalysis and spiritual experience in the healing process of a physically ill man undergoing medical care for an unknown disorder. He entered psychoanalytic psychotherapy after two years of being ill and after numerous medical interventions had failed. The psychotherapy involved certain religious experiences in the patient and...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Richard D Chessick
Abstract Even in this so-called era of the brain, there has been no consensual agreement on understanding the genesis of the mind by the brain, the problem that also baffled Freud, the neurologist at the start of his great discoveries. Especially, there has been no progress in solving what is known as the "hard problem," namely, how neurophysiological processes in the brain can produce...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2009
Moshe Halevi Spero
A report is offered of the psychoanalysis of an emotionally constricted, religiously devout ko'hen, a member of the Jewish priestly class, undertaken with the author, himself a religiously committed Jew. While the analysand brought a great deal of material to his hours and was deeply committed to the analysis, the sessions were emotionally vapid, obsessively repetitious and ruminative. For more...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2008
David V Forrest
In response to a new psychological study of persons who believe they have been abducted by space aliens that found that sleep paralysis, a history of being hypnotized, and preoccupation with the paranormal and extraterrestrial were predisposing experiences, I noted that many of the frequently reported particulars of the abduction experience bear more than a passing resemblance to...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2006
Milton Kramer, Myron L Glucksman
Affect is central to our understanding of many processes, including dreams. The question has been raised as to whether it is the affective or narrative aspect of dreaming that is central to its development. The purpose of the study is to assess the frequency and valence of affect in the manifest content of dream reports of patients in analytic therapy and if affect is absent to assess the...