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The sexual abuse of children and adolescents remains a significant problem worldwide. Children and adolescents who have been sexually abused often experience a wide range of psychological, social and physical problems and these problems often follow them
Ben Parker, William Turner
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The Relational Dimension in Gestalt Psychotherapy: Epistemological and Clinical Aspects
ABSTRACT This article reframes Gestalt psychotherapy as intrinsically relational: experience and self‐emerge from contact at the organism–environment boundary and from the field/situation. We revisit ambiguities in the Perls/Goodman model against a brief historical background and articulate a pragmatic stance grounded in the id of the situation and ...
Pietro Andrea Cavaleri +1 more
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Stages in the Psychological Resolution of Schizophrenia
From the work of Dr. Michael Robbins in Massachusetts, USA, it is known that 9 schizophrenic patients out of a series of 18, and a further schizophrenic patient, treated by him achieved positive outcomes using psychoanalytic methodology.
Gillian Ruth May Steggles
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Contemporary psychoanalytic applications: Development and its vicissitudes [PDF]
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and ...
Lemma, Alessandra, Patrick, Matthew
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Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
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One-year psychoanalytic treatment of a nonverbal child with ASD: a clinical case report
Background. This paper describes a year of psychoanalytic therapy with a 4.5-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder who did not speak. The patient (nickname «Noah») showed minimal eye contact, no speech, and stereotypical behaviors common in severe ...
Z.B. Podorozhna
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Playing as a Therapeutic Method: a Theoretical Study
Over the last 30 years it has been possible to observe a large number of authors with works dedicated to child care and parent-infant interactions in different theoretical approaches in psychology.
Marília Bordin Schmidt +1 more
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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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Clinician emotional response toward narcissistic patients. A preliminary report [PDF]
Patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) are among the most difficult to treat in therapy, especially for their strong resistance to treatment and several difficulties in establishing a therapeutic relationship characterized by intimacy ...
Colli, Antonello +3 more
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