Carolina Seybert (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin) Dorothea Huber (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Clinical Center, München) Melanie Ratzek (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin) Johannes Zimmermann (Institute for Psychology, University of Kassel) Günther Klug (Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychosom...

Although Bourdieu is often seen as “a theorist who will have no truck with Freudian psychoanalytic theory,” he seemed to recognize in the last decade of his life (1930-2002) that psychoanalysis was intrinsic to his own project.2 The pressure of the Freudian tradition was first revealed in his writing by the recurrence of the words “unconscious” – used both as adjective and as noun – and “misrec...

OBJECTIVES Despite the considerable and growing body of research about the clinical effectiveness of long-term psychoanalytic treatment, relatively little attention has been paid to economic evaluations, particularly with reference to the broader range of societal effects. In this cost-utility study, we examined the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of psychoanalysis versus psychoanal...

I wish to convey the enthusiasm that I feel about dreams, their significance in clinical work, and the many new ways that we have learned to understand them. I would also like to familiarize the reader with some findings about dreams that have come from neurobiologists and cognitive scientists. Some of those researchers have made broadside attacks on the psychoanalytic theory of dreams and the ...

  Attempts to present a definitive rational explanation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights have been a growing concern since its publication in 1847. The abundant, yet incoherent, interpretations of Wuthering Heights, each taking one element of the novel and extrapolating it towards total explanation, make the need for this research timely. This article focuses on ways to achieve a truer and m...

In the present contribution we sketch an interpretation of characterizing aspects processing taking place in Default Mode Network based on a formal logic model psychoanalytic theory. particular, apply logical structural Freudian Unconscious as described so-called Bi-Logic introduced by Chilean psychoanalyst I. Matte Blanco. We ground our proposal original concerning distinction between object a...

This paper describes a specific psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with severe personality disorders, its technical approach and specific research projects establishing empirical evidence supporting its efficacy. This treatment derives from the findings of the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research project, and applies a model of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory a...