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The Helper or the Help: Co-Transference Between Black Female Therapists and White Clients Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Jennifer Ashby Bullock
This paper examines how the identities of Black female therapists and their White clients may contribute to enactments stemming from what this author calls a Black Nanny-White Charge co-transferenc...
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Penetrating Language Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Sylvia Steinert
In this paper, consideration is given to contemporary culture’s impact on language and its communicative potential. Drawing on psychoanalytic understanding of the human herd instinct, particularly ...
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Imagination, Embodied Experiences, and Meaning in Supervision Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Hanoch Yerushalmi
In psychoanalysis, there is a growing emphasis on being and becoming, personally embodied experiences, self-expression, spontaneity, and presymbolic understandings. Therefore, the supervisee and th...
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Clinical Crossroads: Countertransference, Ethics, and Premature Termination Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Dena Werner, Daniel Pollack
The literature extensively examines the clinical constructs of countertransference and premature termination through several theoretical orientations. It explores how countertransference is one of ...
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Psychoanalysis, Harm and Risk Reduction in Vulnerable Populations Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Suely Aires, Clara Chamusca
Since 2013, Corra pro Abraço has offered harm-and-risk reduction programs to substance users and other vulnerable populations in the communities of Salvador, Brazil. When translated into English, t...
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Standing in the Chasm: Therapeutic Action for Substance Use and Addicting Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sara K. Bressi
Substance use in the United States, as a chief cause of premature mortality and core barrier to public health, emerges as a clinical focus of services provided in community-based, residential, and ...
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The Psychoanalytic Work in the City: Psychoanalysis in Critical Social Situations Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Emilia Estivalet Broide, Jorge Broide
The present work aims to showcase a psychoanalytic approach to social emergencies in settings that stretch beyond the context of middle- and upper-class private practices. We advocate for the devel...
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The Paradox of PTSD: Call for Social Change or Individual Pathology? Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Wendy Winograd
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Neuroscience, Psychotherapy, and Clinical Pragmatism. Reflective Practice and Therapeutic Action Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 George Karpetis
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Papers and Essays in Honor of Joseph Palombo Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Barbara Berger, Constance Goldberg, Jerrold Brandell
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Social Work in the Age of Disconnection: Narrative Case Studies Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Shirley Tung
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Psychoanalytic Care for Adults Who Have Experienced Homelessness: Thinking with Jane Addams and Donald Winnicott1 Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Deborah Anna Luepnitz
Abstract Contrary to the common misconception that psychoanalysis is appropriate only for highly educated people of means, this paper shows its applicability to adults who are or who have been unhoused/homeless. The writings of Jane Addams and of Donald Winnicott are invoked for their insights about system and psyche. The author describes Insight For All which connects analysts working pro bono with
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Community Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Elizabeth Ann Danto, Jorge Broide
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Anna Freud’s Advances in Community Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Elizabeth Ann Danto
Abstract At the height of Viennese modernism in the 1920s, the new psychoanalytic pedagogy “came on the scene,” Anna Freud said, “in a revolutionary spirit.” Whether by intent or historical circumstance, so too did the field of child analysis and the community clinics. Known as educational counseling services, and generally located within public schools and community housing centers, the clinics served
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The Precarity of Misogyny: Queering as Emancipation of the Gendered Female Body Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Lisa Koshkarian
Abstract This paper invites the reader to experience an intimate encounter with the lived female gendered body. The journey begins with a conception of the body as socio-culturally formed, iterated and reiterated in persistent dialectical fashion via interpersonal and environmental contacts. Because bodies are treated neither equally nor equitably in society, females face exquisite vulnerability and
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Mourning and Melancholia: Redux Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Cathy Siebold
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Understanding Closet Narcissism: The Challenges of Integrating Psychoanalytic Perspectives into Protocolized Treatments Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Samuel Dickinson
As trauma-processing modalities such as CPT and EMDR have been refined and perfected in the twenty first century, little attention has been given to psychoanalysis as a viable treatment option for ...
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Intersubjectivity in Premature Infant-Mother Dyads: Maternal States of Mind and Premature Infant Responsivity Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Nicole Canin, Katherine Bain
Premature birth is implicated in the potential derailment of parent-infant relationships. Using a comparative case study methodology, this paper offers an exploration of developing and disrupted in...
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Working Psychoanalytically with the Family as an Adjunct to Individual Treatment Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Marilyn Charles
Abstract Intensive individual psychotherapy can often be augmented by working with the family or partner as well. Although that work is often undertaken in separate treatments, there are times when it is useful for the individual therapist to participate in those interactions. Co-therapy helps to attenuate problems that can arise. I first describe conceptualizations underlying such work and then offer
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Unsuccessful Accommodations: Reconceptualizing the Psychopathology Attributed to Neuropsychological Deficits Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Joseph Palombo
Abstract This contribution proposes reframing the concept of psychopathology as it applies to the dysfunctions that individuals with neuropsychological deficits display. It suggests that labeling these dysfunctions as symptoms of an underlying condition is an incomplete way of characterizing the process that leads to that outcome. An evolutionary and nonlinear dynamic systems approach complements this
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A User’s Guide to an Affirmative Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 David B. Klein
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Special Issue: Select Papers from the 2021 AAPCSW Conference Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Jerrold R. Brandell, Penny Rosen
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Reflections on Non-Discursive Thinking and Prereflective Consciousness in the Supervisory Situation Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Hanoch Yerushalmi
To diversify the perceptions of the supervisee’s work, the supervisor alternates between the discursive thinking mode that organizes the therapeutic experiences into a therapeutic narrative and the...
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When a Child Has Been Abused; Toward Psychoanalytic Understanding and Therapy Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Joan C. Dasteel
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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“We’re Here, and We’re Not Going Anywhere”: De-Stigmatizing Voice Hearing in Community Mental Health Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Benjamin Goldstein
Abstract This paper presents a case with a long-time voice hearer and patient with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in community mental health. The author shows how de-stigmatizing the experience of voice hearing, an approach offered in peer support models as well as in CBT for psychosis, works in tandem with a conceptualization of hallucinatory experiences informed by a Lacanian perspective outlined by
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Parental experience of launching one’s child, for those who suffered the loss of a parent during their own launching phase Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Paige LaCava
The study explores the phenomenon of launching a child from a parents’ perspective, focusing on a subgroup of parents (all mothers) whose own parent died during their own launching phase. Six femal...
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A Memorial and Contribution to the Legacy of Bill Meyer Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Barbara Berger, Laura J. George, Faye Mishna
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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Langston’s Long, Dark Journey into Light for William Meyer Memorial Issue Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Natalie Peacock-Corral
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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The Psychoanalyst and the “Transsexual”: Transgender Identities as Personal-Political Subjectivities Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Paddy Farr
Abstract In his two part series on psychoanalysis and “homosexuality,” William Meyer lays out a sordid history of psychoanalysis wielded against gender and sexual minorities. The present article is an extension on that work into the realm of “transsexuality.” Analyzing the work of Freud, Rado, Bieber, Socarides, Ovesey, Stoller, and Money, the psychoanalysis of “transsexuality” demonstrates a parallel
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A Theoretical Reconsideration of Delusional Disorder: Social Media Creates Paranoid Pseudocommunity Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Liz Johnston
Abstract The etiology of Delusional Disorder is not well understood and could even be characterized as unknown. The intersection of childhood abuse, trauma and socio-economic factors in the causation of Delusional Disorder has not been acknowledged. Examining the impact of social media can lead to a theoretical reconsideration of Delusional Disorder as a paradoxical search for psychological acceptance
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Could We Be Friends? When a Wish to Be Friends Becomes Part of a Therapeutic Relational Dynamic Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 F. Diane Barth
Abstract Psychoanalytic theory and practice have moved toward privileging relational and attachment dynamics as both cause and cure of many of the issues that bring individuals into psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, highlighting the significance of each therapeutic relationship as a key part of the work. But, what is that relationship? We are not parent/child, nor are we friends, but a deep, mutual
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Voice and Vision in Psychotherapy Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Ruth Greer
Although telephone therapy has been generally employed by therapists and patients for many years, there has been little examination of its use compared to other remote therapies. When COVID-19 requ...
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The Antisocial Tendency and the Role of Deprivation: Facilitating the Maternal Environment Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Huey Hawkins
Abstract Winnicott found that loss occurring during the time of a child’s immature emotional development results in illness. This illness forms a deprivation that leads to a reaction in one’s environment. Through stealing and destruction, the child makes a demand on his environment to reclaim what has been lost. This paper explores Winnicott's conceptualization of the antisocial tendency and the role
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Expanding Diversity to More Fully Include Those Disabled/Differently Abled in Social Work Practice; Issues of Relatedness, Social Justice, Inclusiveness and Diversity among Social Work Colleagues, in the Clinical Dyad and the Community-at-Large Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Fanny Chalfin
Abstract This paper will discuss disability as a neglected aspect of cultural competency in the diversity literature and among social work colleagues. It identifies some of the unconscious intrapsychic and sociocultural concepts that contribute to the avoidance of and malaise around people with disabilities in the community at large as well as in the social work community. Personal and cultural aspects
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Moving from “Facts” to “Feelings”: Using Sullivan’s “Detailed Inquiry” in Clinical Practice 1 Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Joel Kanter
ABSTRACT Recognizing that many individuals begin therapy concerned about aspects of their actual life circumstances, Harry Stack Sullivan’s interpersonal model begins with a “detailed inquiry” where the therapist actively explores many aspects of the client’s past and present life circumstances including family, friends, education, workplace, community, ethnicity, and religion. Beginning with this
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The Treatment of Adult Patients with an Inner Critic - Self-Psychological, Integrative Relational, and Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Robert Jay Lowinger, Deborah Cher, Nicole Matusow, Kimberly Ahearn Young
An enduring state of self-criticism characterized by self-attack and feelings of worthlessness and shame has been conceptualized as an inner critic in the object relations literature. Fairbairnian ...
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Hidden Self-States: Some Reflections on the Patient’s Trauma and the Analyst’s Undreamt Dreams Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Shirley Tung
Abstract In the treatment of trauma survivors, analysts often find themselves befuddled and disturbed by their clients’ unpredictable and self-destructive behavior. One or more dissociated self-states, initially hidden behind the patient’s high-functioning presentation, may eventually make themselves known in the treatment. The analyst is then challenged to find ways to forge a healing alliance with
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Toward the Effective Treatment of Dissociative Symptoms and Dissociative Disorders Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Richard P. Kluft
Abstract Psychoanalysis finds its origins in the hypnotic treatment of a patient who suffered a major dissociative disorder, Anna O. Over time, psychoanalysis dissociated itself from hypnosis and the dissociative disorders, creating schisms so profound that it took nearly a century for such patients to become the subject of serious psychoanalytic consideration once more, and even longer for Freud’s
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Psychoanalytic Social Work: How to Do Things with Words and How to Say Things with Deeds Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Michelle Kwintner
Abstract This article reviews how psychoanalytic theory has described talking and action, especially talking in opposition to action. Starting with a paper of William “Bill” Meyer about psychoanalytic social work and using theories of the philosopher J. L. Austin and the psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden, the article questions an apparent dichotomy in psychoanalytic theory between speech and action. This
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Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Claire Hart
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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The Creative Use of Birth Stories in Psychoanalytic Treatments Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Johanna Dobrich
Abstract Birth stories, as told to patients by caregivers, represent an important clinical communication to psychoanalysts in case conceptualization and clinical process. Because birth stories illuminate many of the relational themes between the parent’s unconscious experience of creation/caregiving and the child’s experience of entering into a particular caregiver’s world, these stories often foreshadow
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Intersectionality: Power Differentials, Impasses and Enactments in Clinical Practice and in Supervision Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Joan Berzoff
Abstract This paper discusses the tenets of intersectionality and applies them to clinical practice and supervision. Power differentials, enactments, and the mutual influences of race, class and sexual orientation on clinicians and clients, students and supervisors are presented and discussed through examples of intersectional impasses.
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The Case for Bearing Psychic Pain as Social and Clinical Action Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Lisa Koshkarian
While humans are hardwired to avoid pain and seek good feelings, it has become imperative to override this proclivity in order to properly address the socio-cultural atrocities which are at the hea...
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Contextual Ghosts in the Nursery: Systemic Influences on Sensitive Maternal Responsiveness in a Low to Middle Income Country Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Nicki Dawson
Abstract The influence of trauma on parenting behavior and “sensitive responsiveness” is well documented. However, these trauma experiences are often conceptualized on an individual, historical and intergenerational level, rather than a systemic level. In this study, eight South African mothers, who were residing in a Johannesburg Township and raising at least one child under the age of six, were interviewed
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On Supervisees’ Sense of Agency and Safety Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Hanoch Yerushalmi
Abstract To be alive and maintain an analytic stance amid transference–countertransference challenges, therapists need to experience both agency and safety. Their sense of safety increases when they connect with their internal analytic community’s representations and their sense of agency increases when they disengage from these representations. When therapists maintain the dialectical tension between
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Transcending Pathological Accommodation: An Intersubjective Self Psychology Approach to Affirmative Therapy Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Nicholas Santo
Abstract Minority stress, including that experienced by sexual minority (SM) individuals, has been studied extensively in social and developmental contexts. Still, sexual orientation microaggressions (i.e., exposure to frequent heterosexist/homophobic language) can persist within the family structure. The focus of this paper is on the internalization of these experiences and the deleterious impact
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Who’s Behind the Couch: The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Esther Urdang
(2022). Who’s Behind the Couch: The Heart and Mind of the Psychoanalyst. Psychoanalytic Social Work: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 98-106.
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Evolving Brains Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Joseph Palombo
(2022). Evolving Brains Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion. Psychoanalytic Social Work: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 91-97.
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Beyond Red Lights: Locating the Un-Homed Child Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Aastha Chaudhry
This paper is based on the researcher’s work at a shelter home with the runaway “street child.” In the Indian subcontinent where religion, gender, family and caste dominate identity structures, wit...
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Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Adam J. Rodríguez
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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The Analyst’s Vulnerability: Impact on Theory and Practice Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Janet Hoffer
Published in Psychoanalytic Social Work (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Freud’s Rule of Abstinence: Implications for Brief Therapy: A Case Report Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Mojtaba Elhami Athar
Abstinence was defined by Freud as the analyst’s abstinence in gratifying patients’ infantile needs. The writer noticed a controversy regarding abstinence among long-term therapists and that it has...
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Call for Papers Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23
(2021). Call for Papers. Psychoanalytic Social Work: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 95-96.
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Holding Multiple Perspectives in Mind: The Dialectics of Contemporary Clinical Practice Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Golnar A. Simpson, Scott Graybow
Abstract In this paper, we explore the dialectical nature of psychoanalytic social work practice and the benefits - theoretical and clinical - of doing so. We posit being mindful of the dialectic 1) aides us in our effort to identify and speak to differing themes, each of which ‘...each of which is understood...’ understood to be a piece of glass in the mosaic that is the totality of the client’s experience
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Dialectics and Developmental Trauma: How Toxic Introjects Affect Attachment Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Jon Mills
Abstract Psychic reality is dialectically mediated. Just as individual psychology is prefaced on social ontology, we can never elude the fact that we participate in greater parameters of being that dialectically constitute our psyworld. In this essay, I will outline an adumbrated theory of psychoanalytic dialectics as it is applied to psychosocial processes with a particular emphasis on how attachment
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The Analyst’s Vision of the Patient and the Dialectic of Interpretation Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Frank Summers
Abstract Often neglected in analytic discourse is the fact that the analyst inevitably forms a vision of the patient. Loewald was a lone voice in illuminating the fact that the analyst could not treat the patient without a vision of who she could become. The thesis of this paper is that inherent in the analyst’s vision of the patient is a dialectic of discovery and creation. Because the analyst’s vision
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Walking on Stage With a Cane – Therapists Reckon With Their Wounds Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-26 Caroline B. Hall
(2021). Walking on Stage With a Cane – Therapists Reckon With Their Wounds. Psychoanalytic Social Work: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 191-198.
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Growing Up in the Age of COVID-19 through the Lens of Psychodynamic Theory Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Melissa D. Grady, Randall O’Toole, Dana A. Schneider
Abstract The long-term effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, families, and society are not yet known. For social workers, it is critical to consider how the pandemic is impacting families, and in particular, children and their development. This manuscript applies psychodynamic theory and research on neurobiology to explore some of the potential effects of COVID-19 on children and
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An Integrated Treatment of Psychosomatic Symptoms and Disorders of the Self: The Role of Alexithymia Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Constance Catrone
Abstract This paper explores the age-old problem of the mind-body relationship by examining the phenomena of psychosomatic symptoms. It traces the development of several clinical concepts that are relevant to our understanding and treatment of patients with psychosomatic symptoms. These concepts include embodiment, alexithymia, affect development and disorders of the self. Brain-based research findings
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“I Am You and You Are Me”: A Self Psychology Perspective on Sibling Relationships Psychoanalytic Social Work (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Claire Hart
Abstract Vertical and lateral functions shape one’s sense of self and help one understand their place in the world. Yet, there are significant gaps in self psychology regarding the subjective aspects of self-sustaining functions provided by siblings and how these may differ from parental functions. This article examines these concepts from the perspective of a volunteer group of six adult participants