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PubMed1991

Mental, neuropsychic, and brain patterns of defense. Neuropsychic defense continua from psychopathology to the particularly human parallel networks that are problematic for artificial intelligence.

The synthesis of psychodynamic and neuroscientific data may be advanced by the study of similarly configured specific patterns of defense along continua from the normal and neurotic mental mechanisms of defenses, through what might be termed neuropsychiatric defenses influenced by the neurological state, to the more clearly neurological cortical reactions. These similar patterns and continua are the particularly human way brain adds its flavor of organism to mind, and the way in which all the psychodynamic mechanisms are specifically imbedded in brain. A purely psychological psychodynamics lacking this medical perspective fails to model human mental processes and reflects problems with artificial intelligence models that do not model brain. The pathological reactions that we address in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry interfere with and thereby reveal parallel processing features in (1) analogical and metaphorical thinking; (2) reduplication, redundancy, and repetitiveness; (3) self, person, and environmental recognition, including transference processes; (4) approximation and statistical inference; (5) spatiality and motor control; (6) affectivity, perception of sensations and sexuality; (7) projective mechanisms; and (8) problem solving by optimization, vectorial summation, and the mutual interaction of interconnected agencies. The new concepts in artificial intelligence built upon brainlike structures called neural nets portend great economies, emergent natural features that are more like human processes, and hierarchical and cyclic organizational demands. Medical psychoanalysts who comprehend dynamic and brain mechanisms and can describe them in terms that refer to both domains and their interaction should find increasing theoretical and practical convergence of their work with the emerging study and modeling of these processes by new forms of computers.

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PubMed1991

The nuclear bomb: a concretization and erotization of power.

This article contends that the nuclear bomb is the concrete representation of an archaic idealizing system. It uses concepts published by Atwood and Stolorow (1984) to demonstrate how the bomb is no protection at all to our national defense; rather it compensates for empty or poorly developed psychological structure and function of individual and group. The continued proliferation of the bomb--some 70,000 at last count--despite the knowledge that just a few can obliterate our world is testimonial to the need for a concrete and visible mound of weapons. Since this need can never be satisfied by these means, there can never be enough bombs to be sufficient. The article extends the concept of this faulty or absent development of psychological structure to the weakening or loss of primary affiliative bonding between individuals and groups, which has psychohistorical roots. Three historical developments intertwine and reinforce one another: (1) the isolation of national defense to weapons and war; (2) the evolution of a modern science based on a duality between body (affects) and mind (cognition) and contributing to sexual polarization, in which masculinity has been identified with valued objectivity and femininity has been identified with devalued affiliative affects; (3) the equation of sex and aggression with power and their use as substitutes for derailed development of affiliative needs and functions.

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PubMed1991

Is psychoanalytic theory relevant to the psychology of women?

This article reviews the literature addressing the relevance of psychoanalytic theory to the psychology of women and offers a possible rapprochement between these divergent perspectives. This rapprochement is accomplished first by defining "psychoanalytic theory" and "the psychology of women" in line with current scholarship, then by comparing and contrasting these definitions in an item-by-item analysis. The basic tenets of modern psychoanalytic theory emerge as highly relevant to the understanding of the psychology of women, despite the fact that particular "brands" of psychoanalytic theory may not demonstrate this same compatibility.

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PubMed1992

The phoenix rises from eros, not ashes: creative collaboration in the lives of five impressionist and postimpressionist women artists.

Women yearn to express themselves through their affiliative bonds and professional goals. Historically, it has been difficult for women to find and maintain close affirmative ties with men while they also strived to advance their careers. The lives of five impressionist and postimpressionist women artists in fin-de-siècle Europe permit a glimpse into the possibilities and pitfalls of relationships in career development. When mentors or supportive partners are available to women, their creative productivity flourishes. In contrast, when the male partner seeks greedily to control or enviously to attack the woman's aspirations, her creativity wanes, and her life may be ravaged. Yet the keystone of any creative partnership is the ability to reckon with the potential sources of destructiveness within one's self that may lead to disparagement of the other. The lives of men and women may be enhanced when neither partner disavows or seeks to denigrate the talents of the other. Creative partnerships that support the emotional and productive intensity of both members of the dyad can lead to great personal expansion and enrichment for the culture at large.

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PubMed1993

The phenomenology of the self and its objects in waking and dreaming: implications for a model of dreaming.

The current psychoanalytic emphasis on self psychology allows attention to be drawn to the nature of the self, internal and external object representations, and possibilities involving the self in relationship to aspects of self and objects in dreams. An emphasis on the self, applied to dreams, appears to fit well with current concepts of REM sleep that involve this sleep stage's importance for the individual in learning, adaptation, and assimilation of emotionally meaningful information. Examples have been provided to indicate possible contributions of self psychological perspectives to an understanding of dreams. A model describing changes in the self and its objects in dream mentation compared to the self and its objects in waking mentation has been described. The model suggests that the self of the dream relates to separated off, changed, or newly cathected attitudes, beliefs, and object representations in a manner that describes the state of the individual and possibilities for change available to the individual. This model, having historical roots in Jungian psychology, adaptive/learning theories of REM sleep, and current Kohutian initiated self-state dream theory, provides an opportunity to review with the dreamer the relationships of self and objects as these representations are concerned with problematic developmental or emotional situations.

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PubMed1994

The eroticized transference: a tool for the reconstruction of childhood sexual trauma.

In this paper the eroticized transference is seen as a tool to reconstruct the childhood trauma through the patient's material and the corresponding countertransference in the therapist. The theses is presented that the eroticized transference is an indicator of the existence in the life of the patient of childhood sexual trauma, often unbeknownst to him or her and that it can be of great value in the reconstruction of the experience. The reason it has not been used may lie in our tendency to deny the reality of incest and in the propensity of the analyst for counterresistance in response to these patients. Between avoidance and acting out lies the opportunity to use the countertransference response of the analyst as a catalyst and to reconstruct the traumatic events through the patient's material and the corresponding response in the analyst. Two cases, a male and a female, exemplify the use of transference and countertransference for recollection and reconstruction of the traumatic childhood experience.

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