Choice of Neurotic Symptom

2000 ◽  
pp. 119-170
Author(s):  
Yacov Rofé
Keyword(s):  
Neurotic Symptom

The Wolf Man’s Glückshaube: Rereading Sergei Pankejeff’s Memoir

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 789-814
Author(s):  
Anat Tzur Mahalel
Keyword(s):  
Complex Matrix ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Wolf Man

A comparative reading of Freud’s canonical case study “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (1918) and the memoir written by the protagonist of that study, Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man (1971a), centers on the complex matrix of meanings embodied in the act of lifting the veil. The neurotic symptom of a veil seemingly in front of the analysand’s eyes is interpreted by Freud as a repetition of his birth in a Glückshaube (German for “caul,” literally a “lucky hood”). The veil is represented as an ambivalent object both for Freud and for Pankejeff, who are enticed by the sense of a final truth behind the veil yet constantly doubt the possibility of grasping it. For Freud, psychoanalysis is the very process of lifting the veil, yet his analysand remained for him an unsolved riddle. Pankejeff, in a volume dedicated to his identity as the Wolf Man (Gardiner 1971a), created an autobiographical text that deliberately avoids telling the story of the analysand, thus drawing a veil over his story. The paradox embodied in lifting the veil is discussed in relation to Walter Benjamin’s distinction between materiality and truth and his notion of the inherent unity of the veil and the veiled (1925).

Heterosexual Aversion in Homosexual Males

1973 ◽  
Vol 122 (567) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Freund ◽  
Ron Langevin ◽  
Stephen Cibiri ◽  
Yaroslaw Zajac
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Homosexual Male ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
Selection Of

Psychotherapists tend to view homosexuality as a neurosis or as a neurotic symptom (Sadger, 1909, 1921; Klein, 1932; Rado, 1940; Ellis, 1952, 1955; Bieber et al., 1962; Ovesey et al., 1963). In support of this viewpoint, several authors have observed that the frequency of typical neurotic phenomena in homosexual males is much higher than that in a heterosexual male population, and have concluded that homosexuality is one of the neurotic symptoms of their patients (Stekel, 1929; Henry, 1937; Ellis, 1959; Musaph, 1960; Doidge and Holtzman, 1960). However, an alternative interpretation is that such maladaptive patterns develop from the difficult situation of a homosexual male in a heterosexual society and from the general disapproval he encounters. Moreover, the finding of increased prevalence of neurotic symptoms in homosexual males has itself been challenged by Kronfeld (1923) and Hooker (1957), who pointed out that the investigated homosexual males represented a selection of people who sought psychiatric help. Hooker studied non-patient samples from homosexuals' clubs and did not find an abnormally high frequency of neurotic symptoms.

Predictors of neurotic symptom severity among female drug users in Glasgow, Scotland

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Gilchrist ◽  
Laurence Gruer ◽  
Jacqueline Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
Female Drug Users

A clinical guide to assessing level of ego development using psychological testing

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Trimboli ◽  
Charles W. Keenan ◽  
Rycke L. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Treatment Planning ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Ego Development ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Personality Functioning

This article presents a clinical guide for relating psychological test findings from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and Rorschach Technique to various levels of ego development. The original three validity and 10 clinical scales from the MMPI and a selected group of traditional determinants from the Rorschach are employed. Expected testing results from these instruments are derived from both the authors' clinical experience and the research literature. These results are presented along a continuum of nine levels of ego development and their associated disorders. The nine levels of ego development are “normal” neurotic, neurotic trait, and neurotic symptom organization; high-, mid-, and low-level borderline organization; and affective, cognitive-affective, and cognitive psychotic organization. The relationships between typical testing responses and indices of personality functioning at each level of ego development would hopefully facilitate accurate diagnosis, which in turn would result in more effective treatment planning.

Stress Incubation and the Onset of Affective Disorders

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bebbington ◽  
Geoff Der ◽  
Brigid Maccarthy ◽  
Til Wykes ◽  
Terry Brugha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Survival Analysis ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Neurotic Symptom ◽  
Symptom Patterns

Incubation is the process by which life events influence the onset of psychiatric disorder after an appreciable delay. It has long been recognised clinically. In this paper we use data from the Camberwell Collaborative Depression Study to see whether incubation effects can be demonstrated in depressive illness. We used a novel adaptation of survival analysis for this purpose. The results suggest that incubation does occur in depressive disorder, that it is much less important than the effect of life events close to onset, that it is apparent in women but not in men, and that it is no more evident preceding endogenous than neurotic symptom patterns.

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