A contribution to theoretical thinking about psychoanalytic technique by a leading psychoanalyst such as Karl Menninger is noteworthy. From this point of view alone, this book commends itself to anyone utilizing psychoanalytic principles and practices in his work, anyone interested in the philosophical and practical impact of psychoanalysis on society today, or one whose contact with psychoanal...

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...

This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness befor...

Partner-specific perfectionistic concerns (PC) include concern over mistakes, self-criticism, and socially prescribed perfectionism as it pertains to one's partner. The social disconnection model proposes that PC influences well-being indirectly through interpersonal problems. Thus, we hypothesized that social negativity (expressed anger, hostility, and rejection) would mediate the relationship...

Halvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) shows how to inoculate the semantic view against Halvorson’s criticisms, namely by making it into a syntactic view of theories. I argue that this modified semantic-syntactic view cannot do the philosophical work that the original “languagefree” semantic view was supposed to do. According to Clark Gly...

Discrepancies (i.e., a subjective sense of falling short of one's own standards) are a key part of the perfectionism construct. Theory suggests discrepancies confer vulnerability to depressive symptoms. Since most research in this area is cross-sectional, longitudinal research is needed to disentangle directionality of relationships and to permit stronger causal inferences. Determining whether ...