Monday, May 29, 2017

The 100th Birthday of John F. Kennedy falls today on Memorial Day

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This year’s Memorial Day also happens to be the 100th Birthday of John F. Kennedy. Born May 29, 1917, he was the 35th president of the Unit...
Friday, May 26, 2017

From Fantasy to Imagination

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Bromberg tells us that “the negotiation of selfhood and otherness...has a lot to do with imagination and creativity.” and that “The relativ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Co-creation of Dreams

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A therapist discloses to a patient the dream she had about him the night of their previous session: I was sitting next to you on the couc...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Envy and Failed Mutual Regulation

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The final semester at TBIPS for fourth year candidates and students includes an Electives course in which each candidate has the opportunit...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Dissociation as the hallmark of trauma

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Because Adrienne Harris so eloquently discussed intergenerational transmission of trauma on March 18, 2017 at the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic ...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Survival, Destruction, Attachment and Going on Being, and Sexuality

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Winnicott wrote of the importance of the mother’s survival (neither retaliating nor withdrawing) [see post of 2-28-12] of the the infant’s ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The Analyst's Self-care; Ghosts, and Witnessing

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The local (Tampa Bay) psychoanalytic society had the pleasure of hosting, on March 18, 2017,  Adrienne Harris, renowned psychoanalyst and a...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Where is the pre-oedipal father in psychoanalyic theory?

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Freeman advocates for increased conceptualizing of the pre-Oedipal father in psychoanalytic theory. Freudian psychoanalysis placed the Oedi...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Envy Revisited: From intrapsychic to relationally co-created intersubjective envy

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Envy was originally conceived as a derivative of the death instinct (Ego psychology, drives). Eventually environmental failures were posite...

Three Forms of Envy

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Shoshani, et al delineate three forms of envy: neediness, separation, and narcissistic. They illustrate their ideas with clinical cases ill...