Pressing needs for objective and rapid clinical assessment of the psychoanalytic process are emerging in the current climate of social and medical change. The Ego Function assessment (EFA) method is presented as an available, valid, and reliable quantitative technique which can be used by clinicians for such objective evaluations. EFA formulations are dynamically highly relevant. They are direc...

In his pioneering work on liberation psychology, Ignacio Martín-Baró describes de-alienation as a subjective process of recovering fragmented historical pasts for the purpose reconstituting and liberating ourselves from an oppressive, alienating present. this article, I argue that although is typically understood political concept, it also lends itself to psychoanalytic readings. To end, draw M...

Seven contributions from a combination of psychoanalysts, writers, and one academic are discussed. All contributors try to arrive at some understanding of how psychoanalysis has been depicted in the media and why so many of these portrayals tend to be outlandish. The authors’ speculations range from efforts to deal with the threat of someone who can see unconscious process to a satirization and...

of its argumentative reconstruction of Freud's writings, in the form of a set of well-defined scientific hypotheses. Grunbaum provides a useful precis of his book at the outset, and his verdict on psychoanalysis' claim to scientific truth is negative. Hopkins and Cioffi take issue with Grunbaum, but for opposing reasons. Hopkins argues carefully and in detail that psychoanalytic thought stands ...

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We analyzed the contemporary empirical and theoretical literature concerning the two predominant approaches for scoring formal thought disorder on the Rorschach, the Comprehensive System special scores, and the methodology of Rapaport, Gill, and Schafer (1946/1968). The psychoanalytic research related to selected special scores is reviewed, and some linkages to psychoanalytic developmental theo...