Mondays with Mary
A New Novel on Hospice Care
This book outlines the process of entering into a relationship with those who are dying. Although the focus of... more
This book outlines the process of entering into a relationship with those who are dying. Although the focus of attention is on Hospice Volunteering, it can be read and used by anyone caring for someone involved in the care of a dying loved one. As you read these pages, you will find yourself connecting with Mary and Jim in places deep within your heart known as the place your soul calls home.
You will find your heart awaken into an eternal love with each section of this book allowing you to discover your true nature. Your creative imagination will enter into places you knew as a child. It is the place inside you where dreams come true. Let your heart open where your mind takes you in this book and you will find that place whereby we are known as we are truly known.
Sam Oliver has cared for the needs of the dying in palliative care for over 22 years. During that time, he has served as the Chair and Co-chair of Hospice Ethics Committees in Indiana and Ohio. He has served several years as a State Continuing Education Chairperson for the Association of Professional Chaplains in Indiana.
Etude sur l'attribution de significations générales au contenu du rêve: Recherche exploratoire sur la nature, la fréquence et la fonction des oppositions dans le rêve
Alhadeff, M. (1998). Etude sur l'attribution de significations générales au contenu du rêve: Recherche exploratoire sur la nature, la fréquence et la fonction des oppositions dans le rêve. Mémoire de Licence en Psychologie (70 p.), Genève: Université de Genève.
L'étude des oppositions qui fait l'objet de cette recherche s'inscrit dans une démarche expérimentale, visant à... more
L'étude des oppositions qui fait l'objet de cette recherche s'inscrit dans une démarche expérimentale, visant à établir une meilleure compréhension du rêve et des processus cognitifs qui s'y rattachent. S'inscrivant dans une visée exploratoire, elle repose sur le recueil et l'analyse qualitative, validée par la méthode inter-juge, de cinq rêves décrits et commentés suivant le protocole de recherche développé à Genève par l'équipe de Jacques Montangero. Cette recherche poursuit trois objectifs principaux. Elle vise en premier lieu à établir une catégorisation facilitant l'étude des oppositions dans le rêve reposant sur la nature des éléments qui forment les membres de l'opposition. Les résultats des analyses ont permis de mettre en évidence quatre catégories d'oppositions présentes dans tous les protocoles étudiés. Le deuxième objectif de cette recherche est de préciser la place occupée par l'opposition dans le travail d'élaboration cognitive du rêveur. Les résultats obtenus démontrent combien la reformulation du rêve en termes génériques constitue une étape privilégiée pour la mise en exergue de relations d'opposition. Leur figuration apparaît ainsi liée à des dynamiques d'abstraction ou de généralisation. Finalement, la dernière partie de cette recherche a pour objectif de formuler des hypothèses sur la nature des processus et sur la fonction des oppositions figurées dans le rêve. L'analyse du matériel récolté permet de formuler l'hypothèse d'une sur-détermination des relations d'oppositions entre objets du rêve. D'un point de vue cognitif, ces observations donnent écho à l'hypothèse d'un processus psychologique de sélection motivée du contenu onirique et la représentation de significations déterminées.
Ce document est la version électronique de mon mémoire de licence en Psychologie obtenu à l'Université de Genève sous la direction du professeur Jacques Montangero.
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by Lene Auestad
Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to stereotyping, silencing, discrimination or exclusion, it is also the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent, participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.
The book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an 'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?
Thinking in terms of 'containment', a communication which is denied a social space for expression can be said to be actively stripped of meaning. Through its original contribution of attending to, and interpreting material that so far had seemed meaningless, psychoanalysis has demonstrated a capacity to reinstall meaning where none was before – but how are such acts performed on a social level?
When common responsibility is displaced onto a suitable class or group and its representatives, the end point is reached when the individual is objectified and the social aspects of the process are no longer recognized. His or her position becomes an illegitimate one from which to speak – the person's subjectivity is excluded. The book poses the question of how we can conceive of the 'how' and the 'why' of this phenomenon and of possible counter-gestures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Lene Auestad
PART 1: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
The Dread... more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Lene Auestad
PART 1: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
The Dread of Sameness: Social Hatred and Freud's 'Narcissism of Minor Differences'
Karl Figlio
Subjectivity and Absence – Prejudice as a Psycho-Social Theme
Lene Auestad
Metapsychological Approaches to Exclusion
Jonathan Davidoff
The Excluded in Identification
Calum Neill
PART 2: QUESTIONING CASES OF EXCLUSION
True Believer: Racism and one Nazi Ideologist
Martyn Housden
Staring and Phantasy – A Speculative Attempt to Understand and Address the Widely Observed Misrepresentation and Exclusion of People with Disfigurements
Jane Frances
'Who is afraid of DSM?' The Place of the Subject in the Society of Therapy
René Rasmussen
Islamism and Xenophobia
Sverre Varvin
Traces of Trauma in Post-Conflict Guatemala. Theoretical Reflections on the Effects of Trauma on a Social Organization
Elisabeth Rohr
PART 3: THE EXCLUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS; LIMITS AND EXTENSIONS
Psychoanalysis behind Iron Curtains
Ferenc Erős
The Extensions of Psychoanalysis: Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Hospitality
Julia Borossa
Contributors
Index
Did Lacan Go Camping? Psychotherapy in Search of an Ecological Self
Chapter in this book Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to The Ecological Crisis
This paper explores how psychotherapy might begin to facilitate the development of an ecological subjectivity in post... more This paper explores how psychotherapy might begin to facilitate the development of an ecological subjectivity in post modernity. The paper will take a critical look at the concepts of nature and subjectivity, my argument is that we need to start to re-imagine the ecological subject and how an ‘ecopsychotherapy’ might help in facilitating the development of an ecological self. I will explore how the process of ecological communication occurs between mind and nature at the present time in history. We live in an age where the environment can no longer be positioned as a passive backdrop, climate change, species extinction, environmental degradation and potential catastrophe lurk both in the forefront and hinterlands of our consciousness. Nature and subjectivity are not static entities, both are in flux, multiplicities that assemble and disassemble in a process of becoming. The paper will explore how the human and the natural need to be re-imagined in order to understand and develop ecological subjectivities suited to merging and emerging postnatural contexts. I will not explore psychotherapy practice in natural environments in any depth, but instead focus on the subject at the heart of a ecopsychotherapeutic project, the ecological-psychological subject, that ecopsychology aims to foreground in an attempt at reconnection to the natural world as a reciprocal process.
Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan
by John Hendrix
The book analyzes the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture, focusing on... more The book analyzes the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture, focusing on the architecture of Peter Eisenman and the writings of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The book discusses theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, perception, and dream construction. The writings of Ferdinand de Saussure and Jacques Derrida, and the architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini, Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are also explored.
LEARN EMPATHY: Building Skills for Caring
by Daniel Keeran, MSW
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The lesson is based on the best-selling counselling text "Effective Counseling Skills: the practical wording of therapeutic statements and processes" (318 pages) found here http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Counseling-Skills-therapeutic-statemen
Designed primarily for the classroom and initially used to train professional counselors, the practical exercises for... more
Designed primarily for the classroom and initially used to train professional counselors, the practical exercises for acquiring empathy skills contained in this book can be used for the benefit of couples, families, people in counseling, and in the workplace.
Why learn empathy? The ability to have empathy for others is important as a foundation for caring and compassion and contributes to positive relationships in all areas of life, from the classroom to the living room and the boardroom.
Empathy builds a sense of community and reduces the tendency to discriminate against or exclude others. A person who is insensitive, abusive, or who bullies others can benefit from an awareness of the emotions of those who are being hurt.
Children, youth, and adults, will be positively impacted by learning empathy with the practical exercises described in this book.
Do you have GROW YOUR COUNSELING PRACTICE?
When clients are not appearing, counselors in private practice use the time to make their services known to the public and to referral sources. The contents of this essential volume provide articles that can be used to communicate areas of practice and that impress upon prospective clients the benefits of counseling.
Part 1 gives the text of practical articles for issues and problems commonly seen in counseling.
The author suggests that the articles in Part 1 can be sent out periodically, depending on the counselor's areas of practice, with the addition of the counselor's own contact information so that referring persons and clients can easily reach the counselor.
Part 2 is a short lesson book for teachers and school counselors, on teaching EMPATHY in the classroom.
Part 3 is a review of practical matters to assist with conducting the counseling practice in a way that is professional and to support the therapeutic nature of the relationship.
Without permission needed from the author, the complete articles can be circulated individually or added to a newsletter delivered by email or regular mail. To respect intellectual property rights, the author only requires that each complete article be used without abridgment, alteration, or editing of any kind. Contact the author to receive the articles FREE as individual email PDF files suitable for distribution without charge.
The value and success of a counseling practice depends upon the quality of service provided to the public. If the client or referral source can easily and readily perceive the usefulness of the counseling approaches and services, word-of-mouth referrals will occur and prospective clients will inquire about counseling.
The articles can also be used as handouts in workshops or seminars delivered to schools, church or religious groups, hospital staff, and as media press release promoting your counseling practice.
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Praise of Motherhood
by Phil Jourdan
When Phil Jourdan's mother died suddenly in 2009, she left behind a legacy of kindness and charity — but she also left... more
When Phil Jourdan's mother died suddenly in 2009, she left behind a legacy of kindness and charity — but she also left unanswered some troubling questions. Was she, as she once claimed, a spy? Had she suffered more profoundly as a woman and parent than she'd let on?
Jourdan's recollections of his struggles with psychosis, and his reconstructions of conversations with his enigmatic mother, form the core of this memoir. Psychoanalysis, poetry and confession all merge to tell the story of an ordinary woman whose death turned her into a symbol for extraordinary motherhood.
Lusoga - English Book of Riddle Performances
work in progress
Riddle performance acts when translated from language to another may lose their riddle texture unless such... more Riddle performance acts when translated from language to another may lose their riddle texture unless such translations takes into consideration the verbal and non verbal features of performance. In this record, I endeavour to document the riddle acts through detailed descriptions and involvement of the audience and context into the text. I regard the conversation between the participant audiences as the riddle act performed around a theme or riddle precedent. In this way, the riddle gets contextualised in a way that any translation needs to take this in mind for authenticity.
Les Cahiers du Centre Canguilhem, n°I, Le corps relégué, PUF, Paris, 2007
This book is published under the direction of Alain-Charles Masquelet (université Paris XIII) and my own supervision as the editorial secretary of the Cahiers du Centre Canguilhem.
La médecine occidentale doit ses avancées à la mise à l’écart du patient souffrant et à l’objectivation du corps... more
La médecine occidentale doit ses avancées à la mise à l’écart du patient souffrant et à l’objectivation du corps humain. L’investigation biologique et la révolution de l’imagerie, à la fois diagnostique, interventionelle et fonctionnelle, inaugurent à l’heure actuelle un bouleversement complet du mode d’approche du corps malade qui rend caduques des pans entiers de la clinique et de la chirurgie traditionnelles. On assiste à une clôture et une relégation du corps que la technique rend désormais quantifiable et transparent.
Paradoxalement, l’homme contemporain réinvestit le corps comme élément majeur d’identification dans un monde qui se dérobe de plus en plus à toute tentative de maîtrise. Le dualisme triomphe par l’effet conjugué de la culture du corps et la médicalisation de la santé.
Dans la suite des analyses de Georges Canguilhem, les auteurs de cet ouvrage – médecins, philosophes, psychanalystes et anthropologues - plaident pour une pratique médicale qui s’adapte à ces transformations en prenant en compte le malade comme sujet souffrant, doté d’un corps entier, intégré dans un environnement et dont la présence ne saurait être occultée. Ils encouragent le développement d’une médecine qui reconnaisse la présence de ce corps et l’expérience qu’en a le patient, en accepte les risques et les spécificités, et cesse de simplement le reléguer derrière des objectivations rassurantes mais parfois trompeuses
Matters of Spirit: J.G. Fichte and the Technological Imagination
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This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of... more
This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imaginationthe very centerpiece of his philosophical system. By situating Fichtes philosophy within the context of nineteenth-century German science and culture, the book establishes a new genealogy, one that shows the extent to which German idealisms transcendental account of the social remains dependent upon the scientific origins of psychoanalysis in the material techniques of Mesmerism. The book makes it clear that the rational, transcendental account of spirit, imagination, and the social has its source in the psychological phenomena of affective rapport. Specifically, the imagination undergoes a double displacement in which it is ultimately subject to external influence, the influence of a material technique, or, in short, a technology.
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The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis
Co-edited with Louise Braddock; Routledge 2007
Table of contents:
Braddock & Lacewing, Introduction.
Part I. Psychoanalysis.
Braddock & Lacewing, Introduction.
Part I. Psychoanalysis.
Brearley, What Do Psychoanalysts Do?
Budd, Reading and Misreading.
Rusbridger, Elements of the Oedipus Complex: A Kleinian Account.
Tuckett, Civilization and its Discontents Today.
Part II. Philosophy.
Cottingham, A Triangle of Hostility? Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Religion.
Lacewing, Do Unconscious Emotions Involve Unconscious Feelings?
Harcourt, Guilt, Shame, and the ‘Psychology of Love’.
Braddock, Psychoanalysis as Functionalist Social Science: The Legacy of Freud’s ‘Project for a Scientific Psychology’.
III. Perspectives.
Rustin, How Do Psychoanalysts Know What They Know?
Robertson, Freud’s Literary Imagination.
Connors, Force, Figuration, and Repetition in Freud.
Fletcher, Gender, Sexuality and the Theory of Seduction.
Ten Psychoanalytic Aphorisms on the Kabbalah (Lecture Delivered at the Ceremony for the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Scholarship at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on the Anniversary of Gershom Scholem’s Birth, December 5, 2010), Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2011 [Bilingual edition, Hebrew and English]
http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/01305.htm
Davies, J (2012) The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent. London: Routledge
by James Davies
Author: James Davies
“This book offers a deeply informed and nuanced understanding of the value of suffering, when productively engaged.... more
“This book offers a deeply informed and nuanced understanding of the value of suffering, when productively engaged. Elegantly written in crisp prose, it offers an incisive critique of the medicalization of suffering when narrowly conceived as disorder to be treated by anti-depressant medications and prescriptions for “positive thinking.” This book is rich in valuable insights for psychoanalysts, philosophers, psychologists, and the broadly educated European and North American public".
- Janis H. Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology, University of California.
"The Importance of Suffering is a brave and creative work that will change how we think about human suffering. Critiquing the ideology of anesthetization that characterizes modern-day life, Davies demonstrates—with great sensitivity and depth--how suffering can be leveraged for positive growth and change when not exiled from human experience. This is a bold and hopeful book; a major contribution."
- Dr Rebecca Lester (Department of Anthropology, Washington University)
“James Davies offers a highly original and insightful approach that restores the vital place of suffering in human development. Drawing from anthropology, philosophy and psychology Davies weaves a rich narrative that deserves to be widely read.”
- Dr Alistair Ross, Director of Psychodynamic Studies, Dean of Kellogg College, Oxford University
“This book, fluently and engagingly written, takes us back a number of decades to the exciting times of Szasz, Laing and others, and the revolutionary assertion that the origin of suffering is due to an unduly oppressive social environment…. Such a prodding enlivens one's critical stance to what we as therapists do, and places the book next to classics like Philip Rieff's The Triumph of the Therapeutic, and Ian Craib's The Importance of Disappointment”.
- R. D. Hinshelwood (Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex).
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its productive value.
The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the outcome of how we relate to the world internally – in terms of our personal biology, habits and values, and externally – in terms of our society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more holistically, it can facilitate individual and social transformation in powerful and surprising ways.
The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works with suffering in a professional context including professionals, trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology.
Cengiz Erdem - The Life Death Drives
by Cengiz Erdem
It is only in and through a position of non-mortality within and without mortal life at the same time that the... more It is only in and through a position of non-mortality within and without mortal life at the same time that the exploitation of mortality can be brought into the spotlight. A critique of the exploitation of mortality inherent in particularly exemplary cultural products will be achieved through putting them in a perspective that analyzes the life death drives in such a way as to expose the exploitation of the fear of death as the driving force inherent in them. The point is that it is indeed necessary to fantasize being what one is not, in our case being non-mortal, to be able to become self-conscious of one’s self-reflexivity in the way of creating an order of signification not caught up in the rotary motion of drives locked in Klein’s projection-introjection mechanism, but rather one which breaks this vicious cycle and at least attempts to subtract death from life in a counter-act to the post-structuralist idea of life as a process of dying and death as an absent presence in the midst of life. It is only through such a subtraction of the absent presence of death within life that the productive interaction between Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism, Foucault’s bio-politics, Badiou’s theory of infinity, and Kant’s reflective mode of judgement give birth to the immortal subject as the womb of a new thought, a new life, and a new mode of being, free of the exploitation of mortality and engagingly indifferent to this mortal, all too mortal life.(Cengiz Erdem)
L'Anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse. La contribution majeure d'Antoine Vergote, Paris, Cerf, 2007
See http://theo-psy.net/AnthropologieTheoPsy.aspx
The relationship between faith and psychoanalysis has long been a subject of intense scrutiny. Rejection of one by the... more
The relationship between faith and psychoanalysis has long been a subject of intense scrutiny. Rejection of one by the other alternates with mutual fascination. At first glance, things should be simple for a theologian; he will consider that faith and psychoanalysis have the same focus: Man. Psychoanalytic concepts and tools should therefore be useful, particularly in the field of theological anthropology. Such a perspective, of course, skirts the main issue. For Freud, man is certainly not created by God, as maintained by faith. More importantly, for Freud, man is unconsciously the creator of God and his relationship with God is no more than an illusion, an expression of his own desire. Therein lays the ultimate challenge of psychoanalysis to faith, a challenge Jean-Baptiste Lecuit intends to meet.
He therefore conducts two tasks concomitantly. On the one hand, he puts theological anthropology under the scrutiny of Psychoanalysis. And, in doing so, he will show the immense contribution to this endeavor by Antoon Vergote, theologian, psychoanalyst and psychologist of religion. His works illustrate perfectly how the understanding of faith can be enlightened by psychoanalysis, theory and practice.
The relevance of Antoon Vergote’s works to our study is due both to the variety of related subjects he has covered and to the quality of his contributions. He has, of course, investigated the inescapable importance of the psychic, particularly the issues related to the Oedipus complex. He has also contributed to the dialogue between faith and culture today. In a world where the concepts of fatherhood and law are being challenged, he has shown their relevance. In the interfaith dialogue, he has brought out the specificity and core values of the Christian faith. In other contributions, he has highlighted how the Christian faith is both profoundly human and transcendental; a challenge in a world where both dimensions are contested as never before. The relevance of his contributions is enhanced by the manner in which he conducts the dialogue between faith and psychoanalysis. He does not fall into the usual traps of such a dialogue, reductionism or dualism; excessive psychoanalysis or excessive spirituality.
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Entre fascination et rejet mutuels, les rapports entre foi et psychanalyse n'ont cessé d'inspirer de nombreux auteurs. En théologie, la prise en compte de la psychanalyse se joue, pour l'essentiel, à propos de l'être humain, principal objet commun aux deux disciplines : c'est donc en anthropologie théologique que l'éclairage psychanalytique est le plus décisif. Que pense Freud, en effet, sinon que l'être humain, loin d'être créé par Dieu comme l'affirme la théologie, en est inconsciemment le créateur, et que sa relation à lui n'est qu'une illusion du désir ? C'est sur ce terrain que l'essentiel de la confrontation se joue, et c'est là que Jean-Baptiste Lecuit entend la mener. Son objectif est inséparablement de penser l'anthropologie théologique à la lumière de la psychanalyse et de montrer l'apport essentiel, dans cette entreprise, de l'œuvre d'Antoine Vergote, théologien, psychanalyste et psychologue de la religion. Cette œuvre, en effet, illustre de manière exemplaire la possibilité d'une intelligence de la foi éclairée et éprouvée par l'expérience et la théorie analytiques.
L'actualité de l'œuvre d'Antoine Vergote ne découle pas seulement de l'indépassable prégnance du psychique, et singulièrement de la problématique œdipienne. Elle tient aussi à sa contribution au dialogue entre la foi et la culture contemporaine, à sa mise en valeur du rôle structurant de la loi et de la paternité dans un contexte où ce rôle est en crise et, dans le contexte interreligieux, à son apport à la pensée de la spécificité et de l'essentiel de la foi biblique. En outre, elle contribue à rendre compte des dimensions à la fois profondément humaines et transcendantes de la foi chrétienne, alors que ces deux dimensions sont peut-être plus contestées que jamais. Et ce, d'une façon qui constitue un modèle d'articulation entre psychanalyse et théologie, sans réductionnisme ni dualisme, sans psychologisme ni spiritualisme. Tant par la qualité de sa présentation de l'œuvre d'Antoine Vergote que par son approche originale des enjeux de la confrontation entre théologie et psychanalyse, l'essai de Jean-Baptiste Lecuit se recommande comme une contribution majeure à la réflexion dans ces champs de la pensée.
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