Forming ideal types by understanding. Application to the psychoanalytic treatment of suicidal men [PDF]
This paper discusses the application of a qualitative methodology—forming ideal types by understanding—to the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of suicidal men. The paper focuses on a particular phase of the methodology: the validation through external expert
Briggs, Stephen, Lindner, Reinhard
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed older adults. A qualitative research study [PDF]
This thesis is a qualitative investigation of once-weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy practised by the researcher over a period of one year with a sample of six patients, all of whom were over 65 at the beginning of their treatment and had been ...
McKenzie-Smith, Savi
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Life beckoning. A thematic analysis of change in a deprived boy in long-term foster care, during intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy [PDF]
This research is based on a single case study of psychoanalytic therapy with a young adolescent boy in care. It is part of a growing movement to identify research methods for exploring the place of unconscious expectations, emotion and affect, in ...
Ryan, Emily
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This study employed psychoanalytic theory to delve into the ways Sierra Leonean poets Celia Eva Beatrice Thompson, Princess Mildred Kailey, and Kayode Adesimi Robbin-Coker explored themes of despair, lust, and loss in their poetry.
Philip Foday Yamba Thulla +1 more
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A re-consideration of interpretation. A relational approach
This paper is a discussion paper and it seeks to re-consider the Freudian psychoanalytic concept of interpretation within the relational approach to psychoanalysis.
Zelda G. Knight
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The meaning of the absence of the father in the development of infants [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The research explores the meaning and concomitant effects of the absence of the father in the development of very young children by observing three cases of
Mazliach, Yaron
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Desire, gender, power, language: a psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Psychoanalytic literary criticism has always had a particular fascination with texts dealing with the supernatural, the mysterious and the monstrous. Unfortunately such criticism, valuable and provocative though the insights it has provided have been ...
H. Kotze
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Infinite Singletons and the Logic of Freudian Theory
The aim of this paper is to advance a formal description of the implicit logic grounding of the psychoanalytic theory. We therefore propose a new interpretation of the logical features of the Freudian unconscious process, starting from the Bi-logic ...
Rosapia Lauro Grotto +2 more
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Perversion and pathology: a critique of psychoanalytic criticism in art
For over three decades, Jacques Lacan denounced ego psychology for its emphasis on a strong and well-adapted ego. This article recruits the principle of that critique to examine the use of psychoanalytic theories in contemporary art criticism, with ...
Lucille Holmes
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Symbol in the Context of Psychoanalytic and Sense Interpretation
The paper considers the modern interpretation of the symbol as a psychological category in the context of the theory of sense and sense-creation. The study ofthe symbol has a long history of various scientific interpretations.
Irina V. Abakumova +2 more
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