The psychotic transference in groups

Transference, transference interpretations, and transference-focused psychotherapies.

The concept of transference and the use of transference interpretations in psychotherapy have been highly controversial topics garnering frequent attention both within psychoanalysis and across multiple orientations of psychotherapy. In this article, we review the empirical evidence as it bears on this controversy and discuss the implications of the evidence for psychoanalysis, psychodynamic ps...

Incestuous failure. Studies of transference phenomena with young psychotic patients and their mothers.

Cognitive mechanisms of auditory verbal hallucinations in psychotic and non-psychotic groups.

The continuum model of psychosis has been extremely influential. It assumes that psychotic symptoms, such as auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), are not limited to patients with psychosis but also occur in healthy, non-clinical individuals - suggesting similar mechanisms of origin. Recent debate surrounding this model has highlighted certain differences, as well as similarities, in the phenom...

The Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Organizational Analysis: Psychological Reality, Transference and Counter- Transference in the Workplace

A B S T R AC T We start with the premise that organizations are processes of human behavior that are experienced as experiential and perceptual systems governed by unconscious processes. This starting point leads us to discuss psychoanalytically informed organizational perspectives as a means of understanding how psychological reality shapes organizational dynamics. In particular, we argue that...

Potassium transference in Nitella

Transmembrane movements of K+ and Cl- were studied under a variety of experimental conditions. Potassium was found to carry more than 50% of an externally applied inward positive current. The increase in K+ influx was much greater than that predicted by the purely passive model. The increase in Cl- efflux accounted for less than 10% of the applied current, in agreement with the value predicted ...