This study examined whether the predominance of particular themes in maltreated pre-schoolers’ stories about relationships is related to type of maltreatment they experienced. The MacArthur Story Stem Battery was administered to 49 maltreated and 22 non-maltreated children. Children’s representations of self and other were extracted from the resulting stories using the Core Conflictual Relation...

UNLABELLED This study examined changes in adolescents' internal representations of their relationship with their therapist and the extent to which these changes were related to changes in their representations of their relationship with their parents and to treatment outcomes. METHOD Thirty adolescents (aged 15-18 years, 70% women) undergoing psychodynamic psychotherapy participated in relati...

Martin Drapeau1, John Christopher Perry2, Annett Körner3: 1Counselling psychology and psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada, 2psychiatry, McGill University & Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec Canada, 3Counselling psychology and Oncology, McGill University & Segal Cancer Center & Mcgill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec Canada. Correspondence address: Martin Dra...

OBJECTIVE Functional Dyspepsia (FD) is a common symptom of upper gastrointestinal discomfort. Few data are available on the role of psychotherapy in the treatment of dyspeptic syndromes. This study assesses whether brief core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) psychoanalytic psychotherapy improves gastrointestinal and psychiatric symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia. METHODS A ra...

BACKGROUND/AIM Working alliance, as a collaborative part of the therapeutic relationship has been proven to be one of the most powerful therapeutic factors in psychotherapy in general, regardless many technical differences between numerous psychotherapeutic modalities. On the other hand, transference is the basic concept of psychodynamic psychotherapy, and, according to the psychoanalytic theor...

This project focuses on an examination of the correspondence between and the writings of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. A core theme in their relationship has been identified as deception, which appears to be correlated with and perhaps the cause of the end of their association. Incidences of mistrust and distrust have been detailed and discussed.

In contemporary public governance, leaders of organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey CEO’s agencies in seven countries, we explore whether how conflictual regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s their political principals. The presence is experienced as major challenge associated important behavioral response...