Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with inner city patients

The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues pertaining to the use of psychoanalytic understanding and technique, including the utilization of parameters with inner city patients. Traditionally, inner city patients were not seen as appropriate candidates for psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.     

The fear of the body in psychotherapy

This paper identifies the fear of attending to and engaging with the patient's body and the therapist's body, regardless of therapeutic orientation, as a topic rarely explored in books and articles but pervasively experienced because of the cultural norms brought to the consulting room. It explores how we might name the constituent parts of this fear and describes how they inter-link. A case study then exemplifies learning about and transforming such fear in both patient and therapist. Finally, the paper offers suggestions of how therapists might increase their awareness and turn this fear into a tool which extends their range of skills.     

Fertility attitudes and the fear of death

An attempt to test empirically the general proposition that fear of death is related to certain attitudes about fertility, particularly expected number of children. Analysis of data collected from 355 undergraduates at a midwestern U.S. university showed this proposition to be generally supported and dependent, in part, on respondents' sex. Those who are more fearful of death tend to perceive procreation as a means for others to reduce fear of death, and also tend to expect having a greater number of children than those whose fear is less. Although the interrelationships of the variables appears somewhat complex, they provide an empirical reference for further research linking mortality to fertility.     

Absolutely fatal The fear of death and the mid-life crisis

Abstract

The term ‘mid-life crisis’ is one of those conveniently plastic psychological labels that manages to encapsulate within its neat frame of reference a remarkably diverse range of emotional states and behaviours. Criteria for inclusion in this particular category of suffering are, of course, age-based - although the definition of what time-span constitutes ‘mid-life’ is, itself, an area which enjoys a certain plasticity. The advantage of this, no doubt, is that having one ‘tag’ to describe such a wide sweep of scenarios simplifies the task of classification (or, to quote Freud in another context, 'saves us all the difficulties of differentiating' (Freud 1914: 547)); while the drawback of such diffusion is that it renders the goal of precise analysis that much more elusive - to expert and layman alike.     

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and its supervision via videoconference: experience,questions and dilemmas*

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - The patient lives in Berlin, the therapist in Lisbon and the supervisor in Budapest. Not long ago, continuous psychotherapy and supervision would have been...     

Religiosity, fear of death and suicide acceptability.

The present research was an attempt to test two hypotheses derived from a recently proposed social psychological model of suicide: The acceptability of suicide is a decreasing function of religiosity and fear of death. Questionnaire data were collected for 205 undergraduates at a midwestern university in 1978. The questionnaire included several measures of religiosity, a factor analysis multidimensional fear of death scale, and a suicide acceptability scale. Results, showing that all of the religiosity measures and certain types of fear of death were significantly related to the acceptability of suicide, supported to the hypotheses under examination.