Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology today. Since it was first introduced in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists and psychiatrists have been trying to give the somewhat vague concepts behind BPD a concrete form. Kernberg’s explanation (Otto F. Kernberg, Psychologist) of what he calls Borderline ...

I appreciate the reflections on the case of Daniel from Dr. Jill Bresler (2016) and from Dr. Stephen Holland (2016) —two experienced clinicians well versed in moving between psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral orientations to more comprehensively meet the needs of their patients. Dr. Bresler’s response led me to think more about my development as a therapist and the process through which a p...

FAMILY INTERVIEWING, or family therapy as some prefer to call it, is by now a well-established, fashionable modality of psychotherapy and, for analysts engaged in such work, one of the many branches of applied psychoanalysis. As yet there is no adequate formulation of the meaning of "applied psychoanalysis, " for it is difficult indeed to define what psychoanalytic training adds to the practice...

in this paper, the french electoral system in different layers of power and its impact on voter’s political life and behavior is explored. the french chose the two-step plurality system in the national assembly elections. this electoral style has caused the multi-party and bipolar system to be institutionalized in the land of flowers. although this electoral system is harmful to minor parties e...

The psychoanalytical sections, as would be expected from a distinguished psychoanalyst, are at once the main strength of the book and the main weakness in that they are relatively so full as to make the whole work appear overbalanced towards this school of thought. Drugs, physical treatments and community therapies each merit five or six pages?much less than is devoted to recent changes in pers...

Psychoanalytic process is defined as the interaction between the psychoanalyst and the patient, primarily through the interplay of transference and resistance. Transference and resistance are understood as a unitary phenomenon that can be expressed either as an intrapsychic potential or as an interpersonal relationship. One of the aims of psychoanalytic technique is to encourage, through interp...

In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous treatise on the phases of life development, identified wisdom as a likely, but not inevitable, byproduct of growing older. Wisdom arose, he suggested, during the eighth and final stage of psychosocial development, which he described as “ego integrity versus despair.” If an individual had achieved enough “ego integrity” over the course of a...

In order to study the signs of œstrus in the West African Dwarf goat, 28 non pregnant females younger than 24 months of age were used. Most of them (94.7%) had waggled the tail during heat. The frequency of micturition was higher in the presence of the male. The swelling of the vulva was observed in 68.4% of goats in heat. The cervico-vaginal mucus was significantly (P≤0.05) abundant and elasti...

1804 CMAJ, October 18, 2011, 183(15) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Iwalked into the intermediate care unit for the first time, a second-year student entering a ward filled with patients suffering from severe disease and debilitation. Most suffered from a panoply of illnesses obscuring any single impending cause of death. Many were dying from diseases with widely recognize...

As the leading proponent of psychoanalysis, Jung made trips to New York in 1912 and 1913. The first was to give his Fordham lectures, the second has escaped notice but was crucial in the early dissemination of Jungian psychology in the U.S. This paper will elaborate on this development by highlighting the career and influence of Beatrice Hinkle, the country's first Jungian psychoanalyst. She wa...