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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"RC0500 Psychoanalysis"”.
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Experience into psychoanalytic ideas: A psychobiographical study of Ferenczi's Introjection
… and yet controversial role in the development of psychoanalysis. Most of the past Ferenczi studies are either about Ferenczi’s psychoanalytic ideas or life. The former usually point towards Ferenczi’s foresight and creativity in advancing the psychoanalytic movement. The latter, focus more on his …
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Being in the consulting room: A study of the physical space of the consulting room and its role in the therapeutic process
This study originates from my observation of phenomena relating to patients’ relationships with the consulting room, where they project onto the room, at times seemingly unrelated to the transference to me. I utilise Freud’s theory of instinct, as well as three data sets (1- Historical and …
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Is the clinical fee a difficult issue for therapists and if so, what are the conscious and unconscious dynamics that make it difficult?
A lot has been written about money but little about the clinical fee and even less about the analyst’s relationship with this important aspect of the therapeutic dyad. This project researched psychoanalytic psychotherapists' and psychoanalysts' thoughts and feelings about the clinical fee. By …
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Is There a Connection Between Object Relations (as described by Klein), Problems with Sexual Intimacy and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
The purpose of this mixed method study carried out in an NHS mental health setting was to elucidate the connection between what was presented in the consulting room as OCD and how it is used to mask early object relations failure, which re-surfaces in adulthood as difficulties within the arena of …
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Clinical aspects of traditional and contemporary narratives of femininity and masculinity in intimate relationships in China today: Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives
To understand and deal with difficulties of contemporary marriages in China, I investigate the notions of masculinity and femininity as they are related to intimate relationships, from depth psychological perspectives. I argue that these notions are not universal, but are, rather, …
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Borderline patient’s quest for empathy: four female patients in a therapeutic community
One of the main diagnostic criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is an absence of empathy. The concept of empathy does not feature greatly in the literature of the British Psychoanalytic Object Relations Schools. However, the work of both Klein and Bion suggests that there is a normal …
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The Critique of Regression
When we dream, Freud (1900) maintained, we slip backwards from a world of conscious action to an unconscious realm of infantile memory and desire. The residues of our waking life meet there with repressed primitive wishes capable of animating a dream. The idea of regression, with all of its …
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The Curiosity that is Curiosity: A Psychoanalytic Conceptual-Clinical Study
Curiosity is central to the psychoanalytic endeavour, yet there has been little development of it as a psychoanalytic concept. As an internal experience it is not readily objectively identified. Alternatively it is possible to identify and operationalise defences against it. My approach is based on …
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The Impact of Involuntary Dislocation on Bulgarian Turkish Couples: A Psychosocial Approach from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
The proposed study investigates the subjective experience and meaning of Involuntary Dislocation (ID) and its impact on couple relationships. This research is innovative in so far as (a) it investigates families and couples relationships and not individuals, (b) it examines the ID phenomena from a …
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Bridging Imaginal Pathways: The Jungian Technique of Active Imagination and Robert Desoille’s ‘Rêve éveillé dirigé’ Method
This theoretical study brings together Carl Jung’s active imagination and Robert Desoille’s “rêve éveillé dirigé/directed waking dream” method (RED). Such a rapprochement is two-fold. Firstly, it aims to study the historical development of these two approaches in Central Europe in the first half of …
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Exploring the creation of holding environments at work through a business & executive coach training programme in a university setting in the context of organisational transition, development and change
This action research project lays the groundwork for a living theory of practice related to the creation of holding environments at work in the context of organisational transition, development and change. I understand holding environments at work to be interpersonal or group based relationships …
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Masculinity in a Colonial Culture – The Oedipus Complex in Taiwan
In my thesis, I aimed to show that masculinity in a colonized culture is distorted by the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. I interpret it in terms of the Oedipus complex, which can be discerned in Taiwanese history and cultural products. I have chosen Taiwan as my object of …
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Parent-infant psychotherapy with a child showing early signs of autism: Is improvement in the nature of internal parental representations a key factor in therapeutic change? An in-depth qualitative study of a single case
It has been claimed that parent-infant psychotherapy improves the parent-infant relationship (Barlow et al, 2015). However, little research has been done to explore how the internal parental representations of the main caregiver is connected to improvement in a child’s early signs of autism. Such …
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Befriending the elderly: using the free association narrative interview technique and psychoanalytic concept of countertransference to explore the befriending experience
Research has shown that loneliness and social isolation have a significant negative impact on the physical and psychological health of older adults living in the UK, impacting not only on their quality of life, but on society as a whole through increased use of health services. There is a movement, …
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An exploration of how childlessness and the decision whether to parent is understood by psychoanalytic practitioners.
… to define. However, since its inception, psychoanalysis has made an inextricable link between femininity and motherhood thus psychoanalytic theory views motherhood as normative and it is often seen as a developmental stage. This thesis explores how psychoanalytic practitioners understand, …
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The emotional radioactivity behind conflict in psychoanalytic institutions
The aim of this research is to explore the unconscious elements that fuels the ‘radioactive atmosphere’ of psychoanalytic institutions - unconscious sources of the chronic conflicts that sometimes plague the relationships between members of psychoanalytical societies and obscure the path of a …
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Psychosocial dimensions of change: An application of attachment theory and analytical psychology to family life in post-war Kosovo
This empirical study attempted to develop an original theoretical framework aiming at understanding the psychosocial changes that occurred in the long - term among families living in a post conflict setting. During the last fifteen years, Kosovo has been transitioning from warfare and organized …