Psychoanalysis

Empirical evidence supports the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy. Effect sizes for psychodynamic therapy are as large as those reported for other therapies that have been actively promoted as "empirically supported" and "evidence based." In…

Reviews the book, "Handbook of evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy: Bridging the gap between science and practice" Raymond A. Levy and J. Stuart Ablon (see record 2008-14828-000). The title suggests that the book intends to bridge the gap…

For almost 45 years, the experience of Jewish children who were hidden during World War II was considered to be of little importance, particularly with respect to what had taken place in the concentration camps. Their very history was ignored in the…

Using the convergence between Bion and Matte-Blanco, in this article the author attempts to stress the view of the psychoanalytical method as promoter of expansion of the ability of the patient to think his emotional experiences. After a brief…

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social…

The capacity to control emotion is important for human adaptation. Questions about the neural bases of emotion regulation have recently taken on new importance, as functional imaging studies in humans have permitted direct investigation of control…

Behavior and experience are organized around the enjoyment and pursuit of incentives. During the time that an incentive is behaviorally salient, an organism is especially responsive to incentive-related cues. This sustained sensitivity requires…

People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the 2. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual experience, including…

Consciousness separates us from other animals and machines - or does it? Can consciousness be reduced scientifically to chemical and mechanical processes? If so, where do love and pain, dreams and joy fit in?

"Arte de amar (en latín Ars Amandi o Ars amatoria) es un poema didáctico escrito por el poeta romano Ovidio. Escrito en latín y publicados entre los años 2 a. C. y 2 d. C. consta de tres libros o cantos en los que facilita una serie de consejos…

In contrast to most other books on Freud, this is a highly accessible account of his life and ideas, focusing on the relevance of Freud's work for contemporary approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. The book provides an overview based firmly…

CONTEXT: The place of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) within psychiatry is controversial. Convincing outcome research for LTPP has been lacking. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of LTPP, especially in complex mental disorders, ie,…

Presents the renowned psychologist's ideas on sexual aberrations and the development and features of human sexuality during infancy and puberty

REVIEWED WORKS: James Meyer: Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Yale University Press. New Haven and London, 2001)

Drs Leichsenring and Rabung1 reported that long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) is more effective than shorter forms of psychotherapy for complex mental disorders based on a between-group effect size of 1.8 from 7 comparative trials that…

Little empirical research has been conducted to investigate the effectiveness of audit committees and the factors associated with effectiveness. It is proposed that audit committee effectiveness is perceived as a function of the types and extent of…

Systematic research on psychoanalytic treatments has been limited by several factors, including a belief that clinical experience can demonstrate the effectiveness of psychoanalysis, rendering systematic research unnecessary, the view that…

NO ABSTRACT. BEGINNING OF INTRO: Experience has taught us that psychoanalytic therapy - the liberation of a human being from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions and abnormalities of character - is a lengthy business. Hence, from the very beginning,…

The author suggests that a good deal of the confusion that arises in the course of reading Bion derives from the fact that Bion's analytic writing is comprised of two periods of work that involve markedly different conceptions of psychoanalysis.…

Reports an error in "A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third)" by Jessica Benjamin (,…