Maternal Desire: On Love, Children, and the Inner Life: Comment.

Comments on the review by Arietta Slade (see record 2005-12958-012) of the author's Maternal Desire: On Love, Children, and the Inner Life (2004). For many contemporary women, becoming a mother represents a crisis of desire. A woman finds herself suddenly, unbelievably compelled by her baby and motherhood. As Slade observed in her review, feeling the full weight of their maternal desire is conflictual for many achievement-oriented women. This is understandable, because the time devoted to caring for children is directly at odds with time devoted to other goals. However, as Slade also astutely notes, some women manage this conflict by devaluing, dismissing, or ignoring maternal desire, treating it as less valuable, less real, or less feminist than their other desires. This comment examines this tendency. The dismissal takes three main forms. The first is the view that, in talking about mothers' desire to care for their children, mothers risk naturalizing women's caregiving roles in a way that is detrimental to women's progress. Maternal desire is also neglected by the insistence that the problems and conflicts contemporary mothers face are caused by purely external forces. Finally, maternal desire is dismissed by construing it as a by-product of privilege, something only the lucky few have the luxury to indulge. Maternal Desire is an exploration of motherhood but also a plea for honoring our inner life and acknowledging the full complexity of our feelings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Maternal Desire: On Love, Children, and the Inner Life.

Reviews the book Maternal Desire: On Love, Children, and the Inner Life by Daphne de Marneffe (2004). This book is based on the premise that the desire to care for one's children is one of life's great pleasures and opportunities for fulfillment. In creating a relationship, and, by extension, a psychological life, suggests de Marneffe, women find particular and crucial meaning and authenticity. Grounded in psychoanalytic, attachment, and feminist theory as well as de Marneffe's own personal journey, Maternal Desire is a subtle rebuke to feminists' inherent derogation of motherhood and a far less subtle encouragement to women to open themselves to feelings that, in this day and age, may seem heretical. De Marneffe, who is a clinical psychologist and mother of three, was powerfully affected by the experience of struggling to balance the demands of her own career with her growing and ultimately grounding desire to care for her children. By the time she gave birth to her third child, she had decided to stop practicing in order to stay at home. The intensely personal nature of her evolution is at the heart of this book; the richness, the sensuousness, and the depth of her longing to care for her children are its emotional core. This revolutionary book challenges women (and men) to take on all the complex pleasures of motherhood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Countertransference and the analytic instrument.

The concept of countertransference may have reached a point where it is too broadly defined. This article differentiates the inner states of the analyst, conceptualized as "the analytic instrument," from his or her behavior in the treatment. It further differentiates between behavior that only hampers an analysis because it permits the transference neurosis to remain intact (simply put, bad therapy) and a different kind of behavior (countertransference proper) that has the potential to destroy an analysis because it seriously damages the transference neurosis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The mental health system: Experiences from both sides of the locked doors.

Although people who have been diagnosed and treated for serious mental illness are visible as advocates and for some new paying jobs within public mental health systems, there are few psychologists actively engaged in the emerging models of consumer-provider collaboration. The key values and concepts of the consumer, and even more so the psychiatric survivor, have received too little attention. The lack of information, dialogue, and trust sustains an adversarial relationship that prevents the respectful sharing of expertise attained from different learning experiences. The knowledge gleaned from consumer/survivors' personal experiences can provide a rich resource for everyone who attempts to aid individuals engaged in the struggle to deal with these painful life circumstances. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The emotionally engaged analyst II: How emotions impact analytic process as illuminated by dynamic systems theory.

A dynamic systems theory of emotion is presented and used to reveal the complex emotional interactions that create the emotional experience of the patient and of the analyst and that constitute, shape, and direct the analytic process. Through the analysis of clinical vignettes, the dynamic emotional processes that engender intense relational moments, enactments, stalemates, and resistances between the patient and the analyst, as well as sequences of disruption, repairs, and mutative change, are illustrated. The flow of emotional energy that vitalizes the analytic interaction and influences the meanings attributed to the patient-analyst interaction is delineated and related to the analyst's emotional engagement of the patient and to the central position of this emotional relationship in facilitating therapeutic change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The role of the transitional realm as an organizer of analytic process: Transitional organizing experience.

[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 26(2) of Psychoanalytic Psychology (see record 2009-04869-002). The author’s name was incorrectly printed in the toc and in the author byline. The author’s name should read Joseph A. Cancelmo, PsyD, FIPA, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)] D. W. Winnicott's construct of the transitional realm of human experience has been widely applied and creatively extended since its introduction more than half a century ago. The author describes the extension of this construct beyond its roots in the phase-specific need for the transitional object to a paradigm for psychic structuralization. He then considers a larger implication of this construct as an organizer and vehicle of transformation in analytic process via the transference. In this more elastic use of Winnicott's construct, the analytic process becomes organized along the lines of the earliest transitional experiences: the developmental progression from a nascent to a separate self, the organization of drive experience via the other, and the sorting out of one's own mind in terms of subjectivity and objectivity. Transitional organizing experience is used as shorthand for these far-reaching structural and dynamic transformations that take place within and between patient and analyst in the dyadic interplay of the analytic process. Via familiar dynamic constellations that emerge within the analytic process, the analytic dyad comes to reexperience (as a 2-person psychology) and reorganize (as a 1-person psychology) toward less "pathological" transitional forms of experience, allowing for a resumption in development of creative transitional space. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On both sides of the hyphen: Exploring the Filipino-American identity.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to compare the ethnic identities of 2 groups of Filipino Americans, 1 born in the United States and 1 born in the Philippines. Results from consensual qualitative research analysis (C. E. Hill et al., 2005; C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N. Williams, 1997) suggested that U.S.-born participants saw the distinguishing feature of their identity as the "American lifestyle," that is, the availability of material goods and technology. Typically, these participants were curious and wanted to explore their Filipino American identity, which they saw as influenced by both Philippine and U.S. cultures. Philippine-born individuals, in contrast, identified the following important aspects of their identity: valuing family relationships; being hospitable, polite, and respectful; having faith in God; speaking Tagalog; and having Filipino physical characteristics. Although most of the latter individuals defined their identity as a combination of both cultures, they were more likely than the U.S.-born participants to view themselves as primarily Filipino and the American aspect of their identity as a result of circumstance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

层次分析法(AHP)在供应商选择中的应用研究

科学合理地选择供应商关系到整个供应链的效率和企业竞争力。使用层次分析法作为工具,从产品成本、产品质量、产品交货期、售后服务四个评价指标着手,通过实例建立了供应商选择模型,利用量化指标对供应商进行综合评价和量化计算,确定最佳供应商选择方案。这一课题的研究可以为管理者在选择供应商时提供一个参考工具,也可以为企业提高选择供应商的效率提供帮助。     

Review of The power of countertransference: Innovations in analytic technique.

Reviews the book, The power of countertransference: Innovations in analytic technique by Karen J. Maroda (see record 1994-98465-000). This is a remarkable and provocative book. On first examination, I thought it was going to be another diatribe against psychoanalytic theory and practice. In the introduction and first chapter, which Maroda entitles: "The Myth of Authority," she points out all of the flaws that she sees in the typical attitude of psychoanalytically oriented analysts. She criticizes the so-called "neutrality" of the analytic position, the authoritarian position of the analyst and the excess emphasis of interpretation as the most critical aspect of the "cure" in psychoanalysis. The rest of the book, however, focuses on countertransference techniques; that is, how to accomplish the countertransference. Maroda's clinical vignettes and technical discussions are detailed and useful. Although one might take issue with some specific clinical points, her discussion is well formulated and her case well argued. This is a rather brief and, at first blush, simple book. It is, however, an important statement of a position on countertransference that is both ground breaking, and a careful exposition. It is one that needs serious attention by both students and advanced clinicians. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

From the Grave to the Cradle: Evidence That Mortality Salience Engenders a Desire for Offspring.

On the basis of terror management theory, the authors hypothesized that reminders of mortality (mortality salience) should promote the desire for offspring to the extent that it does not conflict with other self-relevant worldviews that also serve to manage existential concerns. In 3 studies, men, but not women, desired more children after mortality salience compared with various control conditions. In support of the authors' hypothesis that women's desire for offspring was inhibited as a function of concerns about career success, Study 3 showed that career strivings moderated the effect of mortality salience on a desire for offspring for female participants only; furthermore, Study 4 revealed that when the compatibility of having children and a career was made salient, female participants responded to mortality salience with an increased number of desired children. Taken together, the findings suggest that a desire for offspring can function as a terror management defense mechanism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reuniting the psychic couple in analytic training and practice: Theoretical reflections.

The author discusses the problematic dichotomy that has evolved between "paternal" and "maternal" approaches enacted in psychoanalytic training and practice. He argues that this dichotomy stems not only from reasoned theoretical debate, but also from the need for analysts to do further emotional work in reuniting the 'primal psychic couple' and integrating the "law of the father" with the 'love of the mother.' Because much of this work is done unconsciously, it is further discussed in terms of a collaboration between the conscious ego and the 'Unconscious Other,' and contextualized by examining how the concept of the "unconscious" has evolved from a 'seething cauldron of impulses' that must be tamed, to an "organ of perception" from which much can be learned. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Who's really there? Dreams and the analytic third.

Analysts from different theoretical orientations met to discuss dreams. A major focus was how unconscious processes symbolized in dreams impact the interactive field as viewed through the agency of the analytic third in conjunction with the quality of otherness that attends such experiences. Among the diverse offerings: exploring dreams through an eco-psychological lens, the clinical utility of a dream series in a post-Jungian analysis of a traumatized woman, and a Lacanian view on core elements of desire as used to reclaim the mysterious quality of dreams in showing forth the psyche together with clinical and cultural application of such ideas. A brief comparative analysis highlighting the role of the numinous in encounters with radical otherness is also offered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于层次分析法和均方差法的矿山通风方案优选

针对老厂锡矿原有通风系统存在的不足,提出了3个具体可行的通风系统方案。在对多个矿山通风方案进行选优的过程中,从经济合理、技术先进可行和安全可靠3方面出发,确定了12个矿井通风系统方案优化指标。综合运用层次分析法和均方差法来得到通风系统方案评判指标的权重,并通过计分法选出最优的通风方案。     

Learning in an increasingly multitheoretical psychoanalytic culture: Impact on the development of analytic identity.

The purpose of this study is to examine the analytic trainee's increasingly complicated learning experiences, the environmental and contextual challenges candidates face, and the unique internal battles often engaged throughout the development of professional identity. The method aims to chart the internal and external learning processes of the trainee as they interact and remain distinct. Students of psychoanalysis face a culture of exploding theoretical growth, ongoing intense debate, and decreasing popularity within the community at large. Furthermore, trainees are immersed within specific training contexts that inevitably shape their advancing understanding of analytic theory and technique. Clinical vignettes, developmental theory, and an examination of conviction are offered to further understanding of the current stressors influencing the trainee's pursuit for analytic identity. It is suggested that analysts need to better understand the ongoing nature of developing an analytic identity within specific contexts, and become more aware of how they affect this process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Questioning the couch: Historical and clinical perspectives.

Since the beginning of the last century, when Freud introduced the couch in the psychoanalytic room, a number of “objects” have been removed or renovated, yet the couch has almost always remained in place, at least officially. This article has two distinct aims. The first is to offer a reconstruction of the psychoanalytic history of this element of the setting. The second is to rethink the couch, saving it from being reduced to a mere icon. Recent contributions coming from affective neurosciences, infant research, and psychotherapy research seem to question the utility of this element and the nature of the very mechanisms of its therapeutic action. The authors wonder whether the use of the couch is primarily protective for the therapist rather than necessarily helpful for all patients. Taking into account these observations implies bringing the couch out from a silent dimension and reflecting on its role in the conception of therapeutic action and mental functioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于模糊-层次分析理论的复杂采空区危险性分析

影响采空区危险性因素是多方面的,而且各种影响因素的重要程度有很大差别。基于模糊-层次分析理论对采空区进行综合评判,可在评判过程中按各影响因素的类型建立二级模糊评判模型,对可定量的影响因素采用三相线性隶属函数求解定量因素,对定性的影响因素通过专家打分法来进行量级划分,进而确定判断矩阵;层次分析理论可分析影响采空区危险性各种类型指标等因素,建立评估因素权重集,将判断矩阵与因素权重集运算,可为采空区危险性综合评判提供可靠的理论技术支撑。     

煤与瓦斯突出预测层次分析-模糊综合评判方法

将层次分析和模糊综合评判方法结合起来应用于煤与瓦斯突出预测研究中.运用层次分析法确定了煤与瓦斯突出各影响因素权重系数,采用隶属函数构造了单因素判别矩阵,并运用模糊综合评判法建立了煤与瓦斯突出预测模型.对平顶山研究区典型工作面进行了瓦斯突出危险性的定量预测和突出等级划分.结果表明,应用层次分析-模糊综合评判方法预测煤与瓦斯突出强度是可行的.     

Female genital anxieties: views from the nursery and the couch

The author evaluates developmental and clinical data concerning female genital anxieties in an attempt to address the question of its clinical utility. An effort is made to clarify evidence for female genital anxiety as distinct from castration anxiety in females in the clinical situation and in development. This paper examines these concepts from the perspective of the author's detailed observational and clinical data, which are central to this report.     

"The role of the transitional realm as an organizer of analytic process: Transitional organizing experience": Correction to Cancelmo (2009).

Reports an error in "The role of the transitional realm as an organizer of analytic process: Transitional organizing experience" by Joe Cancelmo (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2009[Jan], Vol 26[1], 2-25). The author’s name was incorrectly printed in the toc and in the author byline. The author’s name should read Joseph A. Cancelmo, PsyD, FIPA, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2008-19341-002.) D. W. Winnicott's construct of the transitional realm of human experience has been widely applied and creatively extended since its introduction more than half a century ago. The author describes the extension of this construct beyond its roots in the phase-specific need for the transitional object to a paradigm for psychic structuralization. He then considers a larger implication of this construct as an organizer and vehicle of transformation in analytic process via the transference. In this more elastic use of Winnicott's construct, the analytic process becomes organized along the lines of the earliest transitional experiences: the developmental progression from a nascent to a separate self, the organization of drive experience via the other, and the sorting out of one's own mind in terms of subjectivity and objectivity. Transitional organizing experience is used as shorthand for these far-reaching structural and dynamic transformations that take place within and between patient and analyst in the dyadic interplay of the analytic process. Via familiar dynamic constellations that emerge within the analytic process, the analytic dyad comes to reexperience (as a 2-person psychology) and reorganize (as a 1-person psychology) toward less "pathological" transitional forms of experience, allowing for a resumption in development of creative transitional space. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Clinging object ties: Without desire or play.

From its inception, psychoanalysis has been baffled with patients who seem to cling to a single individual from whom they seem unable to detach themselves despite lack of interest from the object of their affection. This article first discusses the adhesive object tie as an effort to achieve a sense of self. The discussion then turns to how this conceptualization informs therapeutic strategy, transforming anxiety-driven desperation into play and desire. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)