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Lancet Psychiatry
November 2019
Belgian Superior Health Council, Brussels, Belgium; Psychiatric Hospital Onze-Lieve-Vrouw, Bruges, Belgium.
Int J Psychoanal
June 2019
Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
This article is an examination of the history of Strachey's work as the editor of the , work that was shaped by the internal strife within British psychoanalysis and the great international conflict of the Second World War. From the primary sources it has been possible to give an account of how he came to be in charge of the , why he was suited to the role, and also to provide an example of what he was like as an editor dealing with colleague-contributors. It is argued that due to his long-held belief in free speech and candour, and because he was committed to resisting to the utmost a split within the British Psycho-Analytical Society, James Strachey wanted to make both the papers and the ensuing discussions of the Controversies public through the As described here, that did not happen in a simple way but he succeeded in publishing papers directly related to the debate by fostering investigation into the subject of internal objects.
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April 2018
a Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia , PA , USA.
Freud's rejection of hypnosis gave rise to a rift between clinical hypnosis and psychoanalysis that has endured for over a century. A review of Freud's rationales (Kluft, 2018a/this issue) demonstrates that while some stemmed from what he considered advances, others appear strongly influenced by his promoting the superiority of his "psycho-analysis" at the expense of hypnosis. Mainstream psychoanalysis continues to endorse the perpetuation of rationales Freud asserted nearly a century ago, and an oral lore of related supportive statements.
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April 2015
Faculty member and Supervising Analyst in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a faculty member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York.
One of the most evocative uses of the metaphor of a ghost in psychoanalytic writing was crafted by Hans Loewald in "On the Therapeutic Action of Psycho-Analysis" (1960). In this seminal work, Loewald likened the process of psychoanalytic change to that of transforming psychic ghosts into ancestors. In the present paper, the author supplements the metaphor of ghosts that haunt with the metaphor of vampires that menace, and links these two alien experiences to two psychological processes: repression and dissociation.
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