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We map multidimensional dispositional empathy into 2 versions of the 5-factor space. Empathic concern is closely related to agreeableness, and personal distress is closely related to neuroticism. Perspective taking has complex, interstitial relationships with the 5 factors. In contrast, fantasy is n...
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PMID: 21506454
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First, we collected 14 videos from seven healthy adults who had experienced a sibling's cancer during childhood and seven matched controls. Subjects and controls were asked to give a 5-minute spontaneous free-associating speech following specific instructions created in order to activate a buffer zo...
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PMID: 21490974
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We both depart from a model of self-deception that is straightforwardly based on stereotypical interpersonal deception, we differ in how we do that. An important difference between us might be partly explained by a difference in how we understand the kind of deceiving that is most relevant to self-d...
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PMID: 20615729
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (29)7 2010
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Journal of Homosexuality (57)6 2010
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I conclude that although autogynephilia exists, the theory is flawed....
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PMID: 20582803
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We have virtually no access to individual terrorists; only their actions are visible. The founders of the Italian terrorist group, the Red Brigades, on the other hand, have written about their experiences and have exhaustively explained their motivations. The author's premise is that these autobiogr...
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PMID: 20590927
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The author believes that contemporary psychoanalysis has shifted its emphasis from the understanding of the symbolic meaning of dreams, play, and associations to the exploration of the processes of thinking, dreaming, and playing. In this paper, he discusses his understanding of three forms of think...
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PMID: 20496835
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This paper is a reverie on the wish to be invisible and how it is played out in psychoanalysis. Beginning with a brief clinical case and its countertransference manifestations, the paper touches on invisibility in various aspects of analysis, ranging from publication to supervision. It emphasizes th...
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PMID: 20496837
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Using material from the analysis of a male patient, the author examines the meanings of the decapitated body of a woman in various religious and cultural beliefs and myths, including those represented by the image of the Hindu goddess Lajja Gauri, and the relevance of these to male denial of creativ...
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PMID: 20496840
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We examine the phenomenological qualities of mental time travel in highly schizotypal individuals. After recollecting past episodes (autobiographical memory) and imagining future events (episodic future thinking), those scoring highly on positive schizotypy reported a greater sense of 'autonoetic aw...
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PMID: 20022771
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The results are discussed in the context of the extant evidence concerning hoarding, the distinct contribution made by the current results and the identified methodological shortcomings of the research approach....
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PMID: 20064282
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Critical Care Medicine (38)3 2010
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We discuss clinical aspects of male bisexuality from a psychodynamic perspective. Bisexuality appears to be an attribute of some but not all men. The factors leading some men to be bisexual, and others exclusively homosexual or heterosexual are not presently known. Although bisexuality itself is not...
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PMID: 20297896
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (59)8 2010
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The father's importance is described in terms of contrasting and complementary aspects with regard to child's mother. Even in cases of actual fatherlessness the child will develop an early representation, which is characterized by idealizing processes. Idealization is understood as a developmentally...
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PMID: 21140585
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The use of cosmetic surgery and procedures has sharply increased in recent years. This paper outlines an object-relational framework for understanding the unconscious fantasies that may drive the pursuit of body modification and proposes three categories of such fantasies. For some individuals, the...
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PMID: 20301978
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U.S. News & World Report (146)11 2009
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (28)9 2009
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Pflege Zeitschrift (62)7 2009
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Joining the centennial reexamination of Freud's "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy" (I909a), the author returns to Little Hans as the Ur psychoanalytic boy. Hans's construction and acts of consciousness continue to endow the psychoanalytic construct of masculinity with meaning. It is sugge...
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PMID: 19685812
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Psychoanalytic review (96)1 2009
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (151)1-2 2009
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()147 2009
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Journal of Sex Research (46)6 2009
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This study addresses forceful submission fantasies in men and women. Although many approaches implicitly or explicitly cast women's force fantasies in a pathological light, this study seeks to explore the associations of such fantasy to female power. By adopting an evolutionary meta-theoretical pers...
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PMID: 19353371
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The traditional psychoanalytic practice with children focuses on the observation and the interpretation of the child's play. In contrast, in my treatment of Sara, my focus was on playing with the child. Since initially she was unable to play, Ifirst taught her how to act out fantasies in play until,...
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PMID: 20578435
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This paper examines the meaning and function of pretend play in older children. First, a review of the widely accepted developmental sequences, growth-promoting potential, and analytic uses of play for younger children is provided. Then the possible role for play in later childhood is explored throu...
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PMID: 20578436
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The search for a coherent account of one's life and one's origin may become a particularly powerful organizer of fantasy and memory, affect and conflict, self and object representation in adopted children. Yet relinquishment, unacknowledged affects, and inaccessible history create a rupture in the f...
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PMID: 20578434
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The concept of action has evolved since Freud's initial attempts to adticdress the topic. It is no longer viewed as just serving a defensive function. Instead it is increasingly seen as a mode of experiencing and n, communicating, one that is less developmentally advanced than the verbal one usually...
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PMID: 20578441
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This paper attempts to answer the question: Why, when most children play imaginatively, do so few go on to become creators? The author reviews ideas about the interplay between psychic reality, imaginative play, and creativity, elaborated by generations of researchers since Freud first linked these....
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PMID: 20578432
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (58)5 2009
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The power of imagination refers to the ability of obtaining mental access to an inner world of vision and potential in which change can be believed to be possible. The ability to create inner pictures is dependent on a capacity for symbolisation which is often impaired in deprived or traumatised chi...
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PMID: 19621557
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (150)51-52 2008
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I examine here several contemporary accounts of psychopathy by Robert Hare and Paul Babiak. I first note how they locate the truth about their subject in fiction, then go on to contend that their accounts ought to be thought of as a "mythos," for they betray a telling uncertainty about where "fact"...
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PMID: 18668353
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Structuring their daily life is an important problem for many individuals with chronic mental disorder. Therefore day structuring services are considered as constituent parts of modern mental healthcare systems. In this paper the theoretical and empirical basis for the implementation and evaluation...
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PMID: 19085403
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Although sexual dysfunction of childhood sexual abuse survivors has received considerable attention, other sexual difficulties experienced by survivors of CSA, such as sexual fantasies to cues of sexual abuse, have received less attention. In this A-B design case study, a young adult female survivor...
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PMID: 18355799
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Psychological Reports (103)3 2008
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Four recent informal successive yearly enquiries of the emotions of 1,050 children (total) immediately before their visit with Santa Claus at a shopping mall suggested that about 80% displayed facial expressions, judged by an observer, as indicating indifference. To investigate possible change in em...
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PMID: 19320200
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This study seeks to determine how certain social situations cannot help but influence subjectivity and family ties. The Keynesian age encouraged and promoted a relatively stable socioeconomic matrix based on a probable future and achievable promise. The installation of a family model related to prot...
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PMID: 18988432
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The MFSSQ is a 12-item questionnaire specifically designed to assess the quality and nature of a recent sexual experience. It is easy and quick to administer, is reliable and valid, and has the potential to be used to assess the efficacy of acute interventions in the area of female sexual dysfunctio...
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PMID: 18778313
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Sociosexuality is usually assessed as the overall orientation toward uncommitted sex, although this global approach may mask unique contributions of different components. In a large online study (N = 2,708) and a detailed behavioral assessment of 283 young adults (both singles and couples) with a 1-...
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PMID: 18954197
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On the night of August 19, 2000, at the foot of Castel del Monte, an 8-year-old girl was brutally murdered. The perpetrators were identified as five young men who captured their victim and sexually abused her. The policemen found the cadaver by following "Mario," one of the five, who had been discov...
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PMID: 19017073
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The authors examined the effects of relationship threats on sexual fantasies. In two studies, participants described a sexual fantasy following an imagination task and reported their attachment orientations. In Study 1, participants imagined relationship or nonrelationship threat scenes. Results ind...
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PMID: 18577507
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Freud's "The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy" is regarded by Freud and by analytic readers and commentators as a prototype of his conception of the oedipus complex. A literary methodology is used to show that the interpretation of the oedipus complex at work in Freud's text in fact diffe...
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PMID: 18802132
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Psychological Bulletin (134)5 2008
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Dissociation is typically defined as the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences into consciousness and memory. The present article critically evaluates the research literature on cognitive processes in dissociation. The authors' review indicates that dissociation is charac...
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PMID: 18729565
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Blanchard's (J Nerv Ment Dis 177:616-623, 1989) theory of autogynephilia suggests that male-to-female transsexuals can be categorized into different types based on their sexuality. Little previous research has compared the sexuality of male-to-female transsexuals to biological females. The present s...
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PMID: 18299976
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Transference symptom is a hazy notion in Freud's writings. The notion is presented here as a particular moment in the crystallization of the transference neurosis. It results from a double cathexis of the analytic frame and the analyst resulting in a symbolic distortion that is represented plastical...
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PMID: 18816340
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Freud originally explicated the dynamics of rescue wishes by describing men who fell in love with prostitutes. He saw this attempt at attachment as driven by the man's wish to repay his parents for giving him life. Many subsequent writers shift this emphasis, seeing rescue wishes as motivated by agg...
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PMID: 18816338
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In this paper the author describes some of the clinical features encountered in patients who seem to 'nurture' a persistent grievance. He gives clinical examples, and discusses the nature of the powerful underlying dynamics. He suggests that contained within the patient's grievance is a set of phant...
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PMID: 18816339
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We tested the hypothesis that prenatal masculinization of the brain by androgens increases risk of developing an autism spectrum condition (ASC). Sex-typical play was measured in n = 66 children diagnosed with an ASC and n = 55 typically developing age-matched controls. Consistent with the hypothesi...
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PMID: 17985222
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Developmental Psychology (44)4 2008
Taking fiction seriously: young children understand the normative structure of joint pretence games.
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Joint pretence games are implicit rule-governed activities with a normative structure: Given shared fictional stipulations, some acts are appropriate moves, others are inappropriate (i.e., mistakes). The awareness of 2- and 3-year-old children of this normative structure was explored, as indicated b...
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PMID: 18605846
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The author rethinks Sophocles' dramas Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus with a special focus on how self- and object-preservative drives are expressed in the protagonist's thoughts, feelings, and actions. What endangered Oedipus' survival at the beginning of his life-the planned infanticide-be...
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PMID: 18686789
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Psychoanalytic opinion continues to be dichotomized in regard to the role of trauma versus intrapsychic conflict as contributing to pathogenesis. This paper emphasizes the importance of conflict in both the experience and processing of trauma, so that problems in talking about it and processing it v...
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PMID: 18686791
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (27)6 2008
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Television programs portray characters with idealized body types that for most viewers are unattainable. These body types have become a common source of comparison for many young viewers who evaluate their own self-worth and bodies based on the models they see on television. This study examines body...
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PMID: 18456583
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A multidimensional concept of death must include biological, sociocultural, and emotional components. Children glean information about death in many ways, one of which is through books. In this study, the authors compared the 3 dimensions of death-related information (irreversibility, inevitability,...
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PMID: 18578299
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The purpose of this article is to explain to a non-Lacanian audience the broad philosophical foundations of Lacanian theory, particularly the relationship that Lacan draws between the human subject's ontological lack and his or her creative capacities. In an effort to explain Lacan's distaste for ps...
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PMID: 18515703
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In this paper the author discusses some characteristics of a psychoanalytic text on the basis of two pages of Freud's essay, Delusions and dreams in Jensen's 'Gradiva' (Freud, 1906), on the concept of the return of the repressed. Analysis of the text shows that the four references (Horace, Rops, Rou...
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PMID: 18558959
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Clinicians may want to consider functional aspects of personal narratives....
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PMID: 18448606
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Schizophrenia Bulletin (34)3 2008
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Many previous observers have reported some qualitative similarities between the normal mental state of dreaming and the abnormal mental state of psychosis. Recent psychological, tomographic, electrophysiological, and neurochemical data appear to confirm the functional similarities between these 2 st...
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PMID: 17942480
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There were deficits in source memory, in which patients incorrectly assigned previously learned words to an incorrect word list. Also, Korsakoff patients had extensive executive deficits, but no relationship between the severity of these deficits and the severity of confabulation or intrusions on a...
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PMID: 18412846
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