Childhood Dialogues and the Lifting of Repression

Myerson, Paul

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“…Habermas (1978) connected communication with children's moral development, as did Bok Bok (1979 , 1982 ). Myerson (1991) suggested that the quality and nature of parent-child dialogue about the child's emotions and emerging sense of individuality influence later psychic structure.…”

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Children's construction of a deceased parent: The surviving parent's contribution.

Nickman¹,

Silverman²,

Normand³

1998

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Constructing a connection to the deceased is helpful to children in adjusting to the death of a parent. Using interview data from a subset of a larger study of childhood bereavement, this paper describes ways in which parents help children, ages 10-12, build this connection, provides case examples contrasting parental attitudes and behavior that are helpful and those that are not helpful to the child, and offers implications for clinical practice.

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Children's construction of a deceased parent: The surviving parent's contribution.

Nickman¹,

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Normand³

1998

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…White Bear argued that when people become stuck in negative repetitive emotions, thoughts, and reactive patterns, they are no longer able to experience others in the present moment. Psychoanalytic (and other related schools) therapists (Myerson, 1991; Shapiro, 1999) work with their clients to go back to work through problems in early relationships that have acted as frames from which all succeeding relationships are seen. Cognitive therapists (Beck, Freeman, & Associates, 1990; Hollon & Beck, 1994) help their clients escape from the dysfunctional self-talk loops.…”

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In the Pause and Listening to the Little People

Robbins

Hong

Jennings

2011

The Counseling Psychologist

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This article employs a qualitative case study approach to describe the views and perspectives of a folk healer (White Bear) regarding spiritual healing. White Bear argues for a mobile, in-the-moment form of diagnosis and a “pause,” in which the mind ceases to tyrannize and the healer is no longer absorbed in his or her emotions. He contends that a healer can benefit from aligning with spirits (he calls them Little People) who can help achieve the necessary states of anonymity and nonjudgment required for healing work. Throughout the study, theoretical and empirical findings in the field of psychology are cited in an effort to support or question rather than validate or invalidate White Bear’s mystical wisdom.

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“…This function of the analyst's words has a well-known antecedent in parental behavior of helping children understand and change unacceptable behaviors. Myerson (1991) has suggested that the existence of this type of childhood dialogue with parents greatly facilitates the lifting of repressed wishes during the analytic process. Patients who have experiences of having been helped to tolerate pain through dialogues with parents possess a critical asset to participate in the analytic working-through.…”

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Paradoxical Words and Hope in Psychoanalysis.

Rizzuto¹

2004

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The analytic method links hope to the curative power of speech between patient and analyst. During development, the child associates speech with the hope of help coming from parents. Maternal and paternal voices constitute the child as the "you" parents address, and they function as the child's first mirror. One cannot separate the act of speaking from the hopes it awakens about personal communication, self-discovery, and transformation. Analysis brings about change by engaging the analysand in affectively meaningful speech. Analysis restores the capacity to speak with full meaning about personal experiences and helps the analysand to renounce pathogenic hopes and to pursue attainable desires.

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Childhood Dialogues and the Lifting of Repression

Cited by 9 publications

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Children's construction of a deceased parent: The surviving parent's contribution.

Children's construction of a deceased parent: The surviving parent's contribution.

In the Pause and Listening to the Little People

Paradoxical Words and Hope in Psychoanalysis.

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