Comments on Henry Friedman's (2002) review of Arnold Goldberg's Being of Two Minds.

This commentary is a response to a review by H. Friedman (see record 2002-08457-006) of Arnold Goldberg's (2000) book Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (see record 1999-02973-000). The writer argues against Friedman's contention that Goldberg is judgmental and not empathic toward his misbehaving patients, that he does not appreciate the importance of his own subjectivity as context for the patient's splitting, and that he is authoritarian regarding both the need and direction of change in requiring the patient give up the misbehavior. Last, Friedman erroneously criticizes Goldberg for assuming all marital infidelity is misbehavior, whereas Goldberg clearly makes the distinction between the larger category of bad behavior and actions specified as behavior disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Being of two minds: The vertical split in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: Book review.

Review of book, Arnold Goldberg (Au.), Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1999, 192 pp., $34.50. Reviewed by Henry J. Friedman. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to Bauer (2003) and Fisher (2003).

The author acknowledges the sophisticated understanding of his article (J. M. Natterson, 2003) on the part of both W. D. Bauer (2003) and D. J. Fisher (2003). The author discusses Bauer's and Fisher's concerns about the defensive idealization of the therapist and about a rigid programmatic imposition of love themes on therapy. There is also a response to the question of the philosophical basis for the basic role of love in therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Esther Menaker (1907-2003).

Presents an obituary for Esther Menaker, who passed away on August 20, 2003. Esther influenced many students, colleagues, and patients and revolutionized psychoanalysis, psychology, and feminism with her innovative ideas on masochism, and her notions of the patient-doctor relationship as a relational, interactive dyad of mutual enrichment and growth. Esther was a prolific writer and thinker who embraced ego psychology early in her career and was was one of the first to focus on preoedipal dynamics and their influence in shaping subjectivity within the mother-infant dyad. Her work includes more than 45 articles and 6 books, and she continued to teach, write, and work with patients until her death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to Charles Strozier (2003).

Attention to complexity of motivation and meaning would improve both Strozier's biography of Heinz Kohut and his treatment of reviewer Karen Maroda (Strozier, 2003). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Not a piano key: Reply to Orange (1999).

What I called "minor quibbles" with a book I found appealing appear to reflect some major issues. The authors may have intended the book for readers in the tradition of European phenomenology, but I reviewed the book for psychoanalytic psychologists who are members of an American Psychological Association, not for a journal of philosophy or of psychoanalysis alone. I don't fault the authors for not writing a literature review or a work of scholarly criticism. Prospective readers will wonder, however, if they are saying something different from other writers they are already familiar with—if they are "introducing" any new ideas or if their ideas differ from others' ideas (I had just reviewed Benjamin's book, for example). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Correction to Leone (2008).

Reports an error in "Couple therapy from the perspective of self psychology and intersubjectivity theory" by Carla Leone (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2008[Jan], Vol 25[1], 79-98). Throughout the article, "Couples therapy" should read as "couple therapy," and "self-psychology" should read as "self psychology." (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2008-00996-006.) Central tenets of self-psychology and intersubjective systems theory (e.g., Stolorow & Atwood, 1992) are applied to the understanding and treatment of couple. The concepts of selfobject needs, unconscious organizing principles, and learned relational patterns are used to conceptualize common couples difficulties. A treatment approach is outlined, involving: (1) listening from within each partner's subjective perspective; (2) establishing a therapeutic dialogue through which each partner's selfobject needs, ways of organizing experience, and patterns of relating can gradually be empathically illuminated and transformed; and (3) facilitating new relational experiences with the couples therapist and eventually between the partners. Four concepts of self psychology that are particularly useful with some of the most challenging aspects of couples work are then discussed. Finally, the judicious use of directive interventions with couples is discussed as consistent with this perspective. A case example is used throughout the paper to illustrate key points. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Barbara Strudler Wallston (1943–1987).

Presents an obituary for Barbara Wallston. Wallston graduated from Cornell University in 1965 with a major in mathematics. In 1966 she obtained an MA in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Connecticut, and in 1972 she received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She spent all of her 15-year career as an academic researcher at George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University. For most of her professional life, much of Wallston's work focused on the development and utilization of the health locus of control scale that she devised with her colleague and former husband, Kenneth Wallston. The scale is now used throughout the world to measure people's beliefs about who or what controls their health status. She also worked in the areas of dual careerism, stereotyping, helping behavior, differential perceptions of women and men, and feminist methodology in psychology. Wallston's scholarly contributions to psychology were rivaled only by her record of service. She assumed a variety of leadership roles in several divisions of the American Psychological Association, and she was the recipient of the Carolyn Wood Sherif Lectureship Award for her achievements in and commitment to feminist scholarship, teaching, and mentoring and to professional leadership in feminist psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Correction to Lombardo and Foschi (2003).

Reports an error in the original article by G. P. Lombardo and R. Foschi (History of Psychology, 2003, 2, 123-142). In the reference list, several works by Pierre Janet were identified as being Paul Janet. The correct references are provided, where Paul Janet is identified by the initial P. and Pierre Janet is identified by the initials P. M. F.. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 2003-03729-003.) Since the 1920s, the road to the acknowledgment of personality psychology as a field of scientific psychology that has individuality as its object began with the founding of the discipline by Gordon W. Allport. Historians of psychology have made serious attempts to reconstruct the cultural, political, institutional, and chronological beginnings of this field in America in the 20th century. In this literature, however, an important European tradition of psychological studies of personality that developed in France in the 2nd half of the 19th century has been overlooked. The aim of this article is to cast some light on this unexplored tradition of psychological personality studies and to discuss its influence on the development of the scientific study of personality in the United States. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Protocentrism will prevail: A reply to Krueger (2003), Mussweiler (2003), and Sedikides (2003).

In this article, the author replies to 3 commentaries relating to the egocentrism versus protocentrism debate and the self-as-distinct model (R. Karniol, 2003). Given space limitations, the author does not directly respond to the alternative frameworks her colleagues have proposed and focuses instead on 6 issues that are interwoven in the commentaries on her article: the appropriate framework within which a model of self-representation should be grounded, the distinction between representational and motivational models, the default representation in social cognition, the representation of self as distinctive, empirical issues relevant to settling the egocentrism versus protocentrism debate, and finally, the ubiquity of protocentrism. The author concludes that protocentrism will prevail. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Bernard Lubin (1923-2003).

Presents an obituary for Bernard Lubin. The author states that Lubin was a professor, collaborator, colleague, and friend whose work in personality and clinical psychology continues to be influential. Lubin was born in Washington, DC, on October 15, 1923. He left high school before graduation to join the Merchant Marines, returning to educational pursuits following World War II. He earned his bachelor's (1952) and master's (1953) degrees at George Washington University and attained his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Pennsylvania State University (1958). He was a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), maintaining affiliation with a broad array of its divisions and initiatives. Lubin was designated Distinguished Senior Contributor in Counseling Psychology by Division 17 in 1995, received the Division 13 Harry Levinson Award for Excellence in Consultation in 1996, and received the Richard Wilkinson Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology from the Missouri Psychological Association in 1997. Lubin's life and many contributions are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Barbara Snell Dohrenwend (1927–1982).

Presents an obituary for Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, whose career coincided with and in fact led the growth of the interrelated fields of community psychology, health psychology, and a psychological epidemiology. Her work helped to focus these fields on their present interest in stressed people and the contexts of stress. Barbara Dohrenwend's work was marked by very special and direct caring about psychological suffering, accompanied by the clear conviction that scientific study could and should serve to alleviate suffering. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul E. Meehl (1920-2003).

Presents the obituary for Paul E. Meehl (1920-2003), one of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, who helped to shape psychology in a career that spanned more than 60 years. Dr. Meehl's intellectual contributions ranged over many areas, including clinical versus actuarial judgment, research on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, learning theory, psychoanalysis, and the genetic basis of schizophrenia. Dr. Meehl received considerable recognition for his contributions to academic and applied psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sandra Schwartz Tangri (1937-2003).

Presents an obituary for Sandra Schwartz Tangri, who died on June 11, 2003. Dr. Tangri was an expert in the field of social psychology whose areas of study included occupational role innovation in college women and sexual harrassment in the federal workforce. Her many recognitions include the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her publication on ethics in population programs, the naming of her work on role innovators as a citation classic, and the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from APA's Society for the Psychology of Women for outstanding contributions to the psychology of gender, which honors the aspects of Tangri's work that have had a significant impact on research and theory in feminist psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Contextualizing is not nullifying: Reply to Mills (2005).

In omitting crucial words and sentencees, neglecting relevant citations, and overlooking important distinctions, Jon Mills' (see record 2005-04819-001) critique of relational psychoanalysis significantly misrepresents the authors' viewpoint. This viewpoint seeks to contextualize, but not to nullify, individual worlds of experience and their limiting horizons. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Developmental Dynamics and Contemporary Evolutionary Psychology: Status Quo or Irreconcilable Views? Reply to Bjorklund (2003), Krebs (2003), Buss and Reeve (2003), Crawford (2003), and Tooby et al. (2003).

The authors address commentaries by D. F. Bjorklund (2003; see record 200309105-002); D. M. Buss and H. K. Reeve (2003; see record 200309105-004); C. B. Crawford (2003; see record 200309105-005); D. L. Krebs (2003; see record 2003-09105-003); and J. Tooby, L. Cosmides, and H. C. Barrett (2003; see record 2003-09105-006) on their analysis of the underlying assumptions of contemporary evolutionary psychology (R. Lickliter & H. Honeycutt, 2003; see record 200309105-001). The authors argue that evolutionary psychology currently offers no coherent framework for how to integrate genetic, environmental, and experiential factors into a theory of behavioral or cognitive phenotypes. The authors propose that this absence is due to a lack of developmental analysis in the major works of evolutionary psychology, resulting in an almost exclusive focus on adaptationist accounts of evolution by natural selection rather than a more broad-based focus on the process and products of evolution by epigenetic developmental dynamics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Seymour Wapner (1917-2003).

Presents an obituary for Seymour Wapner, who died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 28, 2003, at the age of 85. An innovative educator, he was also an exceptionally productive scientist who made notable contributions to research in the psychology of perception and in environmental psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rae Carlson (1926-2003).

Reports the obituary for Rae Carlson (1926-2003), prominent figure in personality psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Arthur Teicher (1914-2003).

Reports the obituary of Arthur Teicher (1914-2003), past president of the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reading psychoanalytic developments contextually: A reply to Bocknek on Kohut.

Replies to comments by Gene Bocknek (see record 2009-05605-008) on the author's original article (1986) on self psychology and Heinz Kohut. Masek believes that three problems separate his reading of Kohut's contributions from Bocknek's reading of Kohut and Masek's paper. All three problems converge on the issue of how Bocknek's response understands the issues raised in Masek's paper. These problems are as follows: (1) Precedents are not paradigms; (2) trends ≠ sameness of contributions; and (3) the relations between ego, the self, and Ego Psychology and Self Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)