Update der psychoanalytischen Links im Internet

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Update der psychoanalytischen Links im Internet

Das Forum der Psychoanalyse hat zuletzt in Heft 1/2007 nützliche Internetadressen für Psychoanalytikerinnen und Psychoanalytiker publiziert. Hier folgt, zusammengestellt von Parfen Laszig und Kathy Rieg, ein aktuelles Update. Ausführlichere Informationen zu den angeführten und weiteren Adressen finden sich auf der Internetseite www.psychoanalytische-ressourcen.de     

Neurath on Verstehen

This paper argues for a broadened understanding of the social scientific thought of a leading logical empiricist and advocate of the unity of science. Often portrayed as a reductive physicalist on account of his temperamental interventions against geisteswissenschaftliche obscurantists in the time of the Weimar Republic, Otto Neurath in fact was a defender and practitioner of interpretive methods who warned against their abuse inside and outside of academic social science and history. After placing Neurath's efforts in the context of the Vienna Circle, his talk of “social behaviorism” and his criticisms of Max Weber are clarified (both represent prominent stumbling blocks for an appreciation of Neurath's views) and his view on the role of empathetic understanding is reconstructed. Further support for this interpretation is then adduced from various instance of his pre‐Vienna Circle work (incl. his critique of Spengler and his own work in economic history and history of ideas). Having been trained in the Historical School, Neurath never abandoned his hermeneutic insights but sought to integrate them in a non‐dichotomous conception of science.     

Ueber das Verstehen

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Prozedurale Faktoren in der psychoanalytischen Behandlung

The traditional concept of acting out was redefined in the context of intersubjective approaches as enactment. When a resistance was previously recognized in the analysis of classical neuroses that had to be resolved for a promising analysis, in enactment the creative preverbal expressions of covert procedural experiences can now be recognized, which become revealed in regressive states and in structural disorders. They create scenes of preverbal communication in which the analyst becomes involved in the inner world of experiences. This has a strong reparative potential. It can be utilized for new experiences and development if the analyst becomes entangled in such scenes as a co-actor, accepts the relationship offer of the patient and contributes to solutions for the entanglement; however, this requires something more comprehensive than the traditional defensive concept of transference. It emphasizes in particular the activity of the analyst and its impact on the formation of the analytical process and recognizes the involvement of the analyst as a constitutive factor in the process of his own transference. Thus, a new definition of abstinence in terms of a selective abstinence is achieved, which is nowadays characteristic of the developmental approach in psychoanalytic treatment.     

Kontextanalytische Supervision in der psychoanalytischen Ausbildung

Clinical practice with supervision is that area of psychoanalytic education, in which psychotherapeutic competence is learned, developed and imparted. From the results of the current research about education and supervision, the tasks and aims of supervision are derived. Based on that a context-analytical concept of supervision is evolved. In context-analytical supervision a researching attitude is adopted by which the interactional evaluation of the patient/supervisee is captured and understood for to follow this in psychotherapeutic/supervisory acting and intervening. Finally the potential of context-analysis as a method of qualitative research is pointed out.     

Neue Entwicklungen in der allgemeinen psychoanalytischen Psychosomatik

Psychoanalysis has played a pivotal role for developments in psychosomatics both on a conceptual and an institutionalization level. In contemporary psychosomatics there is a focus on conceptual models that concentrate on psychic structure, the processing of emotions and embodiment. Alongside these, the questions arise on how psychoanalytic views on psychosomatic disorders in a more classical sense will develop further and their relevance for current developments. This article gives a brief historical overview of some central concepts in psychoanalytic psychosomatics and shows how these are resumed in what can be distinguished as six aspects of contemporary psychoanalytic psychosomatics. This is demonstrated by a brief case report. The article closes with some proposals for the clinical practice.