Mark J Blechner
Mark J Blechner
Psychoanalysts resist working with sexual issues in multiple ways. A strategy for modifying one's counterresistance is described, including collecting information about sexuality and gender identity, focusing on the patient's stated aims an...
Guidance for Family Engagement With Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: Integrating Principles From Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Good Psychiatric Management [0.03%]
Giselle Appel,Secil Arac-Orhun,Richard Hersh
Giselle Appel
Clinicians working with patients with primary or co-occurring personality disorder diagnoses are often confused about how to work most effectively with patients' families. While there are a variety of well-described interventions for workin...
Francesco Gazzillo,Eleonora Fiorenza,Marta Rodini et al.
Francesco Gazzillo et al.
This article aims to give the reader an overview of the concept of omnipotent responsibility guilt, which, according to control-mastery theory (CMT), is the emotional manifestation of a set of pathogenic beliefs that make people believe tha...
Simran Deep Singh
Simran Deep Singh
In this brief clinical review, I examine misophonia as a relational phenomenon rather than just a sensory or neurological problem. I highlight the primacy of sensory reception in early development. Psychodynamic formulations of misophonia d...
Utilizing Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Interventions in Group Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders [0.03%]
Robert D F Nathan,John Ogrodniczuk,David Kealy et al.
Robert D F Nathan et al.
Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is a modified form of psychoanalytic psychotherapy grounded in object relations theory. It was developed to treat borderline personality disorder but has been used with a broader range of personality...
Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With a Patient With Dissociative Identity Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder [0.03%]
Darien Alfa Cipta,Alvin Saputra,Karina Kalani et al.
Darien Alfa Cipta et al.
Dissociative identity disorder is a complex condition associated with severe trauma and disrupted attachment. This case report describes a young woman initially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and major depressive disorder, l...
A Positive Group Psychotherapy Intervention for Enhancing Mental Health: A Quantitative Study [0.03%]
Ali Eryılmaz,Ekin Özbey Duygu,Erick Messias
Ali Eryılmaz
Positive and transcultural psychotherapy is a humanistic and psychodynamic approach that integrates positive psychology principles with culturally sensitive and analytic methods. Rooted in both existential and psychodynamic traditions, posi...
Life After Retirement, "Re-firement," Un-retirement, and Pre-retirement: Experiences of Four Psychiatrists [0.03%]
H Steven Moffic,Harold Kudler,Alexander Moreira-Almeida et al.
H Steven Moffic et al.
For health care professionals, especially psychiatrists, retirement is not a narrowly defined process. Retirement only means the end of a specific work-related job. It is closely related to aging although the impact of aging on the body and...
Racialized Health Care Dynamics in Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Case of a Patient Awaiting Heart Transplantation [0.03%]
Nia M Harris,Bernadine H Han,Natasha Chriss et al.
Nia M Harris et al.
Racial inequities within both heart transplantation and psychotherapy access have been well documented. In this report, we describe the case of a patient from a racially/ethnically minoritized background awaiting heart transplantation for w...
Carolyn J Douglas
Carolyn J Douglas
I share my personal journey toward retirement, grappling with feelings of loss, relevance, and legacy, and finding renewed purpose through teaching yoga and learning kirtan. I review core findings about happiness from the Harvard Study of A...