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Category Archives: Psychoanalysis
The Will to Meaning: The Life of Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was born in Vienna on March 26, 1905, the second of three children in a Jewish family of modest means. His father, Gabriel, worked as a civil servant in the ministry of social affairs, a disciplined man … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Lovers Of Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
Lacan devotees believe that the notorious difficulty of Lacan’s seminars and Écrits, whose prose combines mathematical notation, linguistic formalism, topological diagrams, wordplay across French, Latin, and Greek, and a deliberate resistance to systematic exposition that Lacan himself described as motivated … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Professional Authority
American professions do not primarily compete over who is most competent. They compete over who gets to define what requires their competence. High-status actors do not say they want power, prestige, or income. They say they are protecting the public, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Mental Health Authority
American mental-health high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power, prestige, or income. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as faithfulness to evidence-based care, compassion for suffering, and responsibility for early … Continue reading
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Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience
Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by sociologist Liah Greenfeld: * finding oneself bombarded by contradictory cultural messages and overwhelmed with choices is an exceedingly and increasingly common modern experience. It is, therefore, not surprising that the period … Continue reading
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Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
Here are some highlights from this 2016 edition: * Freud once proposed that normality is defined by an ability to love and to work… an ability to love and to work (Erikson, 1950, p. 264). By this criterion, Mr. Z’s … Continue reading
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Historicism and Hill Street Blues, Major Depressive Disorder, Afghan Refugees
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What does it mean to be a Christian? (4-6-21)
00:00 What does it mean to be Christian or Jewish? https://twitter.com/lukeford/status/1379499997310328834 03:00 Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ 10:00 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138249 21:00 Why Mental Health Treatment Often Fails, https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-mental-health-treatment-often-fails.html 22:00 Science Plays the … Continue reading
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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Janet Malcolm writes in this 1982 book: * THE PHENOMENON OF TRANSFERENCE—HOW WE ALL INVENT each other according to early blueprints—was Freud’s most original and radical discovery. The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted … Continue reading
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What Is Counter-Transference?
Link: In psychoanalytic theory, counter-transference occurs when the therapist begins to project his own unresolved conflicts onto the client. Freud, in 1910, was the first to discuss this topic. Transference of the client’s conflicts onto the therapist is a normal … Continue reading
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