Psychodynamic understanding and treatment of patients with congenital disability

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-471
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Thomas ◽  
Jeong Han Kim ◽  
David A. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Congenital Disability

scholarly journals Psychodynamics of imagination failures: Reflections on the 20th anniversary of 9/11

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110097
Author(s):  
Amy L Fraher
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
September 11Th ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Public Inquiry ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Type ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding

This article aims to advance the psychodynamic understanding of imagination failures by studying lessons learned in the US government’s public inquiry into September 11th, 2001 (9/11). Analyzing the findings of The 9/11 Report, I theorize that two forms of macro-level hubris—America’s “hubris of empire-building” and Al Qaeda’s “hubris-nemesis complex”—amalgamated in a uniquely generative manner leading to events on 9/11. Previous studies of public inquiries often demonstrate that inquiry reports are monological story-telling performances used to create sense-making narratives that function hegemonically to impose a simplified version of reality to assign blame and depoliticize events in order to facilitate closure after shocking events. In contrast, findings here suggest that by constructing a critical narrative, The 9/11 Report may serve as a new type of public inquiry report that invites learning about the complex factors that underpin crisis. The article concludes by identifying fruitful areas of future research and ways to theorize further about the collective psychodynamics of macro-level hubris and the psychodynamic factors that hinder learning and contribute to imagination failures.

Female erotic desire

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-252
Author(s):  
Tereza Škubalová
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Erotic Desire

Abstract This paper explores the epistemology and methodology for describing sexual/erotic desire in women. Culture provides a variety of discourses which create possibilities for individual agents to think, experience and act. This paper outlines the dominant discourses of sexuality. The main focus is on the emerging psychodynamic understanding of erotic desire as a cultivated way of experiencing and expressing intersubjective embodied desire. The story of a female research participant has been selected to illustrate the journey from undifferentiated physical and mental experiences of desire to the peculiar integration of both aspects in her lived experience. A combination of interpretive methods is employed.

The politics of imagined stability: A psychodynamic understanding of change at Hyder plc

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1189-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Vince
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Psychodynamic Theory ◽  
Management Of Change ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Strategic Politics

The aim of this article is to show how psychodynamic theory and its application can inform the management of change in organizations. The article outlines a psychodynamic framework for the management of change, emphasizing the interrelation between individual and collective emotional experience and power relations. The phrase a politics of imagined stability is used to describe the role that social and strategic politics play in the perpetuation of emotions and fantasies that have an impact on organizing. The framework involves understanding how the organization is imagined, experienced and maintained through the influence of social and strategic politics, as well as the resulting emotional and political relations within which attempts at change have to be managed. The conceptual framework is illustrated and developed through a case example from Hyder plc, formerly the largest private company in Wales, UK. The discussion and conclusion outline the articles contribution to knowledge concerning psychodynamic thinking and the management of change.

scholarly journals Destruction of the Psyche and its Leveling in the Deep Cognition

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Centrifugal Force ◽  
The Self ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
The Family ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding

Depth cognition of the psyche, performed while practicing psychodynamic understanding of the phenomenon of the psychic, can objectify a person’s psyche destructions, caused by the dysfunctional relations in the family within the triangle: “father – child – mother”. The abstract of the psychoanalysis presented in this article proves not only the role of the Oedipal dependences, which induce centrifugal force around the vicious circle, but also objectify the destructive consequences, which are expressed in a person’s mental retardation, causing the balance violations between “the Libido” and “the Mortido” energies. The article objectifies the basic conflict “life-death” as well as the risks of its balance violation, which contributes to the development of the tendencies to importing the psyche and weakening the self-preservation instinct. The empirical evidence, presented in the article, verbally and vividly proves the interrelation of the depth aspects in their impact on the behavioral ones, which cause the psyche destructions, which need correction in the groups of ASPC.

scholarly journals Psychodynamic understanding of serious events

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 340-341
Author(s):  
Paul M. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Understanding

The truth about symptoms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Psychodynamic Approach ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding ◽  
Biomedical Paradigm ◽  
The Way

This chapter argues that the main aim of early psychoanalytic thinking is to answer the question: ‘What is the origin or cause of this psychical symptom?’. But at the same time, early psychoanalysis paved the way for the quest for the meaning of the symptom: ‘What does that symptom mean?’. In contrast to the biomedical paradigm, in the psychodynamic approach the symptom asks to be heard and deciphered, rather than explained and removed. The psychodynamic understanding of ‘symptom’ completely reverses the biomedical concept. A person’s symptom is not accidental (synbebekos) to that person; rather it is the manifestation of his or her true identity. Someone’s symptom could even be the most authentic thing he possesses. A symptom has a similar structure to Heidegger’s aletheia (literally: un-hiddenness): it is the place where truth about oneself manifests while hiding itself.

A Psychodynamic Understanding of Conversion Nonepileptic Seizures in a Young Woman with Acquired Blindness

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 575-584
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Soffer ◽  
Kenneth R. Alper ◽  
Samuel Basch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Special Education ◽  
African American ◽  
Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
African American Female ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Nonepileptic Seizures ◽  
Psychodynamic Understanding

Ms. G is a 19-year-old African-American female with acquired blindness and a seizure disorder following a ruptured cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in 2001. She currently lives with her mother, brother, and dog, and attends 10th grade in special education at a public high school.

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