There are two different approaches to the definition of "normal" in adolescence: psychoanalytic interpretation and empirical research. They are not necessarily at odds but can complement each other if normalcy is viewed as a dependent variable. Its definition depends also on cultural rules, social values and expectancies, professional orientations, personality traits and political climate, whic...

the value and scientific status of psychoanalytic interpretations. Certainly, among those who have doubts on this score, much of what Gilman has to say will seem ill-grounded in the evidence, and often no more than wildly speculative. For some, such claims as the following: "During the rise of modernism, from the fin de siecle to the collapse of the Nazi state (and beyond), the black, whether m...

A non-uniqueness result for the canonical structure in quantum theory shows that the classical part of the Copenhagen interpretation contains physically important information not contained in it’s quantum part. As a consequence, we cannot compute the symmetry group of a quantum theory considering only the quantum part. The unavoidable vagueness of the classical part therefore leads to a similar...

The category of autism has undergone huge changes over the past 20 years. This study was undertaken to analyze the changes and how parents have experienced the diagnostic process in France. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews with parents and psychiatrists, and from 248 questionnaires with open-ended questions filled in by parents. We compared the experiences of parents with adult autis...

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...

development as well as free play being a focus of interpretation. concepts of transference, countertransference, working alliance and negative therapeutic reaction. Since Freud, multiple psychoanalytic paradigms have developed, including Kleinian psychology and self-psychology. While Freud emphasised an energy discharge point of view within a natural science framework, more recent work has also...

Through a close-play and close reading of the game Fatal Frame II, we identify the uniquely game-based aspects of the uncanny in a horror game. Subsequently, we engage in an interpretation of the game which centers on a psychoanalytic model of the avatar and theories of the twin. Author

It is a continuing task of psychoanalytic thinking to attempt to generate concepts and consistent language that are helpful in understanding the interplay between phenomena in an intrapsychic sphere (e.g. thoughts and feelings) and phenomena in the sphere of external reality and interpersonal relations (e.g. the reality of the other person in an object relationship as opposed to the psychologic...