A plea for affirmation Relating to states of unmentalised affects

Killingmo, Bjørn

doi:10.1080/01062301.2006.10592775

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“…Killingmo () notes that in some patients, somatically experienced affects are not transformed into words and symbols or linked to an emotionally meaningful self‐representation. He takes the view that psychosomatic pathology can be understood from the perspective of unmentalized affect, but states that “from a structural point of view, we may expect to find developmental failures and intrapsychic conflict combined in a multitude of ways” (p. 14).…”

Section: Proposed Models Of Interaction Between Actual Neurosis/psychmentioning

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A Model for Integrating Actual Neurotic or Unrepresented States and Symbolized Aspects of Intrapsychic Conflict

Busch

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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In psychoanalytic theory, the importance of actual neuroses-considered to be devoid of psychic content-diminished as Freud and subsequent analysts focused on unconscious intrapsychic conflict. This paper explores the relationship between actual neurotic and unrepresented states, which are believed to be best addressed through attention to countertransference, intersubjectivity, and enactments rather than interpretation of intrapsychic conflict. Models suggesting how actual neurotic states and symbolized intrapsychic conflict may interact with each other and environmental stressors are described. Symbolizing actual neurotic states and establishing meaningful linkages between somatic/affective experiences and intrapsychic conflict are viewed as necessary for effective treatment of many disorders.

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Section: Proposed Models Of Interaction Between Actual Neurosis/psychmentioning

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A Model for Integrating Actual Neurotic or Unrepresented States and Symbolized Aspects of Intrapsychic Conflict

Busch

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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“…Teorien anvendes tillige i tilgraensende områder af behandling og i professionelle kommunikationssituationer mere bredt (Fogtmann, 2014). Begrebet mentalisering blev indført af franske psykoanalytikere i 1960'erne (Lecours & Bouchard, 1997) og er siden også anvendt af andre psykodynamikere (Killingmo, 2006). Det blev taget op af Fonagy i en artikel med den betegnende titel 'Thinking about Thinking' i 1991 (Fonagy, 1991).…”

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Mentaliseringsteorien – mangler og muligheder

Davidsen

Fogtmann

2016

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“…The capacity to experience one's affects as one's own is crucial for a meaningful perception of one self (Killingmo, 2006).…”

Section: Obliterated Meaning and Feelingsmentioning

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The lost mother tongue: An interview study with Finnish war children

Mattsson

Maliniemi-Piispanen

Aaltonen

2015

The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review

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This article presents the third study of an interview investigation concerning 10 Finnish war children who were evacuated during the World War II to Sweden and who did not return to live in Finland after the war. The focus is on how they remembered or did not remember their early experiences of displacement and on how they expressed thoughts about their childhood and their adult life. We found that all of them as adults still bore signs of trauma. The younger the children were at the time of the evacuation, the more difficult or even impossible it was for them to think or fantasize about the past. It was consequently not possible for them to work through their experiences of loneliness, absence, and loss. All of them had lost their Finnish mother tongue and their ties to their earlier lives in Finland. The present study focuses on how their thinking and language changed when they during the interview talked about their childhood. Effects were seen on the structure of the language, syntax as well as on their word choices. Their narratives could become incoherent, with unfinished sentences and their emotional language collapsed. We compare their descriptions of their childhood with their accounts of their adult life.

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A plea for affirmation Relating to states of unmentalised affects

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

A Model for Integrating Actual Neurotic or Unrepresented States and Symbolized Aspects of Intrapsychic Conflict

A Model for Integrating Actual Neurotic or Unrepresented States and Symbolized Aspects of Intrapsychic Conflict

Mentaliseringsteorien – mangler og muligheder

The lost mother tongue: An interview study with Finnish war children

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