The attempt to make meaning of the soul is inherent to psychoanalytic inquiry, despite its historical diminution of religion and spirituality. Feminist ideology and multicultural psychology have played a critical role in challenging traditional psychoa…
The study explores the DSM-IV-TR classification of eating disorders that is constituted of four subtypes, two of them defined as anorexia (restricting and binge eating/purging) and two as bulimia (purging and non-purging). This classification is based on body weight as the distinguishing criterion. However, psychoanalytic thinking substantially distinguishes between restricting anorexia and the other three subtypes, all of them involving binge eating. Accordingly, binge eating patients are assumed to present different personality characteristics and different dynamics including dissociation proneness as a core component of the disturbance. The dissociative component of binge eating is examined by using the Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS; Tibon, Handelzalts, & Weinberger, 2005) and ot…
Clinical psychoanalysis has ignored shame as the source of psychopathology, despite a burgeoning literature. Here the authors present an analysis carried out with a hospitalized child diagnosed as borderline. The analyst’s efforts to interpret the pati…
Comments on the original article, “Theoretical Insularity and the Crisis of Psychoanalysis,” by Frank Summers (see record 2008-09085-001). In that article, on p. 416, the following statement is made: “Sometime in the 1970s, Kohut asked George Pollock, …
Asperger’s syndrome, a pervasive developmental disorder first diagnosed in childhood, is characterized by severe impairment in social interactions, communication, and stereotypic behavior. In this paper, the authors expand a prevailing emphasis on beha…
Transference and countertransference forces in the lawyer-client relationship can interfere with the successful completion of the legal work the client retained the lawyer to perform. In such instances, a working knowledge of the concepts of transferen…
