Certain problems in defining the psychoanalytic process emerged during the five years in which a COPE study group was attempting to clarify the concept. There was agreement about the bed-rock criteria to be included in a definition: e.g., transference, resistance, a dynamic unconscious, intrapsychic conflict, defense, infantile sexuality, insight which causes change, and change which brings ins...

Cognitive science has incorporated seminal concepts of psychoanalysis without acknowledging this influence. This article covers psychoanalytic ideas already incorporatedimplicitly or explicitly-in modern cognitive psychology, as well as ideas whose inclusion would benefit the cognitive field. These include the emphasis on mental models, mind-body interaction, unconscious processes, dual process...

by Victor Tausk. The paper appeared in print in l9l9just about the time of Tausk’s tragic suicide, although an earlier version had been presented the year before to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Group. In many ways this is an odd paper. It reflects Tausk’s great brilliance and at the same time conveys, through its careful and scrupulously documented footnotes, Tausk’s preoccupation with the influen...

this paper is an attempt to explore how lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of vladimir vladimirovich nabokov’s lolita. before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of french poststructuralist and psychoanalyst jacques lacan, freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Psychoanalysis has benefitted from the application of empirical research efforts to psychodynamic concepts and clinical interventions. One of the most striking examples of research into psychoanalytic concepts is the widespread integration of Bowlby’s attachment theory in developmental and social psychology research (e.g. Cassidy & Shaver, 2008). Other examples include research concerning defen...

Many psychoanalysts believe it is impossible to conduct empirical research without eviscerating or trivializing psychoanalytic constructs, and past research efforts have all too often reinforced this view. A new method for studying personality and personality pathology is presented that challenges such beliefs. This method, the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP), captures the richness a...

Cognitive therapy for depression is common practice in today's National Health Service, yet it does not work well. Aaron Beck developed it after becoming disillusioned with the psychoanalytic theory and therapy he espoused and practised. But Beck's understanding of psychoanalysis appears to have been seriously flawed. Understood rightly, the psychoanalytic approach offers a cogent theory and th...