Reflections On Some Current Controversies In Psychoanalysis

Gedo, John E.

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“…Freud, 1894S. Freud, /1962Gedo, 1980;Higgins, 1987;Horowitz, Markman, Stinson, Fridhandler, & Ghannam, 1990;Klein, 1976;Lockhard & Paulhus, 1988;Moreland & Sweeny, 1984;Perry, 1993;Rogers, 1957;Sackeim & Gur, 1979, 1985Shapiro, 1989;Swann, Stein-Seroussi, & McNulty, 1992;Vaillant, 1992;Weinberger, 1990;Wylie, 1979). The result is that indi-viduals often limit their awareness to include only those experiences congruent with, or distort representations of their experience to sustain, their conscious concept of self (S. Freud, 1914Freud, /1957Kernberg, 1967;Rogers, 1951).…”

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Defensive Verbal Behavior Assessment

Barrett

Williams

Fong

2002

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The present investigation introduces a new way to measure the existence of self-protective cognitive strategies: defensive verbal behavior assessment (DVBA). In Study 1, the authors introduce the coding procedure for DVBA and demonstrate evidence for its interrater reliability and construct validity. In Study 2, the authors demonstrate that defensive verbal behavior is influenced both by characteristics of the person and by the situational context. Together, the two studies illustrate that (a) reliable and valid behavioral assessment of defensive processes is possible in nonclinical samples without the need for lengthy assessment times or specialized clinical knowledge and (b) qualities of the person and the situation must be considered to provide a full account of self-protective behavior.

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Defensive Verbal Behavior Assessment

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2002

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“…-a patient whose prior analysis had been a traditional one -the contemporary Chicago analyst Gedo (1980) harshly discounts the scientific quality of Kohut's case study material. -a patient whose prior analysis had been a traditional one -the contemporary Chicago analyst Gedo (1980) harshly discounts the scientific quality of Kohut's case study material.…”

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Logical foundations of psychoanalytic theory

Gr�nbaum

1983

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PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1 1 1 appeared at the time of E? Plainly and emphatically, they predicate their identification of the repression of E as the pathogen of S on the fact that the abreactive lifting of that repression issued in the durable removal of S. And, as their wording shows, they appreciate all too well that without this symptom removal, neither the mere painfulness of the event E, nor its temporal coincidence with S's first appearance, nor yet the mere fact that the hysteric patient had repressed the trauma E could justify, even together, blaming the pathogenesis of S on the repression of E. Thus, the credibility of the repression aetiology is crucially dependent on the reportedly durable separate removal of various particular symptoms, a therapeutic outcome deemed supportive, because it appears to have been wrought by separately lifting particular repressions! This epistemic dependence of the repression aetiology on the presumed carthartic dynamics of effecting positive therapeutic outcome is further accentuated by the pains which Breuer and Freud take promptly to argue that their symptom removals are due to the lifting of repressions rather than to suggestion: "It is plausible to suppose that ... the patient expects to be relieved of his sufferings by this procedure, and it is this expectation ... which is the [therapeutically] operative factor. This, however, is not so ... the symptoms, which sprang from separate causes were separately removed" (S.E. 1893, 2:7). Thus, the separate symptom removals are made to carry the vital probative burden of discrediting the threatening rival hypothesis of placebo effect, wrought by mere suggestion.Believing to have met this challenge, Breuer and Freud at once reiterate their epoch-making repression-aetiology. Let us now recapitulate the essential steps of the reasoning that prompted them to postulate this aetiology. First they attributed their positive therapeutic results to the lifting of repressions. Having assumed such a therapeutic connection, they wished to explain it. And then they saw that it would indeed be explained deductively by the following aetiologic hypothesis: The particular repression whose undoing removed a given symptom S is causally necessary for the initial formation and maintenance of S. Thus, the nub of their inductive argument for inferring a repression-aetiology can be formulated as follows:The removal of a hysterical symptom S by means of lifting a repression R is cogent evidence that the repression R was causally necessary for the formation of the symptom S (S.E. 1893, 2:7).Clearly, the attribution of therapeutic succes to the undoing of repres-

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“…Whatever we may think of the whole edifice of Kohut's theoryand many have suggested that it is structurally unsound (Gedo, 1980)-I believe that his conception of narcissistic rage and his perspective on the clinical approach to aggression are both internally consistent and of real clinical value.…”

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The Psychotherapy of Rage

Nason

1985

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Reflections On Some Current Controversies In Psychoanalysis

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Defensive Verbal Behavior Assessment

Defensive Verbal Behavior Assessment

Logical foundations of psychoanalytic theory

The Psychotherapy of Rage

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