Three interventions used to assist highly self-critical patients develop self-compassion are described and illustrated with case material. Theoretical background, assumed mechanism of change, and research evidence for each intervention is presented.

Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set depicting compassionate and critical facial expressions, and validated its effectiveness using well-established visual-probe methodology. In Study 1, 62 participants rated photogr...

Seven contributions from a combination of psychoanalysts, writers, and one academic are discussed. All contributors try to arrive at some understanding of how psychoanalysis has been depicted in the media and why so many of these portrayals tend to be outlandish. The authors’ speculations range from efforts to deal with the threat of someone who can see unconscious process to a satirization and...

a book for the beginner since it requires both a solid grounding in Rorschach principles and a working knowledge of psychoanalysis. To those clinical psychologists who believe implicitly in the dogma of Rorschach and psychoanalytical theory, this book will be very welcome and an invaluable aid to diagnosis. To those psychologists who believe that psychology should be a science, based only upon ...

of its argumentative reconstruction of Freud's writings, in the form of a set of well-defined scientific hypotheses. Grunbaum provides a useful precis of his book at the outset, and his verdict on psychoanalysis' claim to scientific truth is negative. Hopkins and Cioffi take issue with Grunbaum, but for opposing reasons. Hopkins argues carefully and in detail that psychoanalytic thought stands ...

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