In clinical work, we have observed that the loss of the father through divorce has a significant effect on the young girl's developing sense of feminity. This paper briefly reviews the research findings from sex-role development theory and psychoanalytic theory, and presents clinical discussions of latency aged girls whose parents divorced during their daughter's early and oedipal years. The mo...

This paper aims at analysing William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying through a variety of contemporary reading strategies, especially to identify his famous character Addie Bundren. In the novel, represents narrative ego, monstrous-feminine double, who is capable experiencing and sublimating paternally repressed desires. this respect, major framework will be constructed on Julia Kristeva’s theo...

Summary The latent structure of psychodynamic and psychological personality models: Conjoint investigation OPD-CQ, OPD-SQS BFI-2 Objectives: Meanwhile, self-report questionnaires for the assessment conflict as aspects have been developed. References to Big Five model, which is becoming more important due ongoing paradigm shift in medical classification systems disorders, are still unclear. Meth...

The book is well written and entertaining, providing both new interpretations of developmental stages for psychoanalysts and a good basic review of the fundamental psychoanalytic principles for those of us who are less familiar with these principles. The main body of the book describes in great detail rituals in several different Papua New Guinea tribes. These rituals are basically the same, wi...

The authors point to a link between the contradictory meanings and functions of adolescent and young adult suicide attempts and splitting mechanisms that may explain the normal coexistence of opposite tendencies. They argue that suicide attempts of young people reveal a deadlock in development, in which individuation and the need for dependence are equally intolerable because of the arousal of ...

The demographic shift toward extended longevity has led to a commensurate increase in the length of the working and productive years, and with it an increase in the number of so-called "older" patients who come into psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This led the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund to support a four-year study by a small group of experienced psychoanalysts...

OBJECTIVE Researchers have advocated replacing the DSM-IV classification of personality disorders with an alternative diagnostic system based on the five-factor model. This study evaluates the clinical comprehensiveness of the five-factor model and addresses the broader question of how many factors, and which factors, are necessary to understand personality pathology. METHOD A national sample...