There are literally several books, dozens of psychoanalytic journals and hundreds of psychoanalytic articles published each month; with this flood of content it often seems an impossibility to separate wheat from chaff. As readers, our hope is that with each new article or book, the material will open unexpected ideational doors and thrust us into revisiting old issues or exploring new ones pre...

Although psychoanalysis once dominated psychology, evidence now points to the waning influence of psychoanalytic theory in psychological science, psychiatric diagnosis, undergraduate instruction, and graduate training. In this article I describe 7 self-destructive behaviors exhibited by psychoanalysts that contributed to the precipitous decline of psychoanalytic theory in recent years. I then o...

This paper provides an overview of narcissistic personality disorders as they present clinically along a spectrum of severity ranging from the best functioning forms of pathological narcissism to the most threatening to the patient's psychosocial and physical survival. It proposes a general interpretive psychoanalytic stance with all these clinical syndromes that range from standard psychoanaly...

The author offers some thoughts on reading and teaching Freud, on translating Freud, on translation in general, and on a possible kinship between translation and the psychoanalytic process. His reading of Freud's works, and the years he spent translating them into Hebrew and editing Hebrew editions of his writings, have made a deep and salient impression on his personal psychoanalytic palimpses...

Introduction THIS PAPER PRESENTS A POINT OF VIEW on the psychoanalytic situation and on psychoanalytic technique through, in part, a selective review of the literature. An important underlying assumption of the paper is that existing theoretical models inevitably influence and reflect practice. This is often true even of models that practitioners claim they do not take seriously or literally. S...

Psychoanalytic theory’s roots (in the clinic rather than the laboratory), and aims (depth understanding of the individual) have led to the development of a theoretical perspective that relies primarily on idiographic data and case material to derive and test psychoanalytic hypotheses. In this article, I describe nomothetic psychoanalysis–a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating psychoanal...

This paper provides a summary of the article, "The Environment and Violent Conflict: A Response to Gleditsch's Critique and Some Suggestions for Future Research". Written by Thomas Homer-Dixon and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, the paper serves as a response to Nils Petter Gleditsch's critique of environment, population, and conflict literature in his seminal 1998 article, "Armed...

Although the term psychoanalytic process is frequently used, there is no consensual definition of its meaning. Some authors use it to designate a recognizable set of experiences within psychoanalysis. Others, a majority, use it as a synonym for the entire psychoanalytic experience, describing in detail what analysts do to achieve their goals. A range of views may be found between these extremes...

The author suggests that contemporary enthusiasm for cognitive-behavioural therapy reflects our longing for swift, rational help for psychological suffering. Competition for funding threatens the psychoanalytic presence in the public sector. The psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioural models are contrasted, and the relative richness of the psychoanalytic paradigm outlined. The author suggests ...

In this paper an attempt Is made to present Skolem's argument forthe relativity of some set-theoretical notions as a sensible one. Skolem's critiqueof set theory is seen as part of a larger argument to the effect that no conclusiveevidence has been given for the existence of uncountable sets. Some replies toSkolem are discussed and are shown not to affect Skolem's position, sinc...