Jung, Jungians, and psychoanalysis.

The break between Freud and Jung--and the subsequent division between their followers--has had profound and continuing consequences for both parties. The Jungians have continued an ambivalent relationship to psychoanalysis, with the effects of internal conflicts and institutional schisms. Mainstream psychoanalysis, for its part, has used Jung, the primary and still most prominent "deviant," to inhibit developments in areas associated with his work. This article explores how the pressure to maintain solidarity and conformity in psychoanalysis has curtailed, in particular, thinking in 3 areas: symbolism, lifelong development, and paranormal experience. It concludes with observations about the opportunities and dangers associated with the move toward pluralism being considered in both camps. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

What Freudians can learn from Jung.

Noting that there has been an increasing sharing of ideas between psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists within the past decade, the authors, all Jungian analysts, survey Jung's clinical theory in an effort to identify areas where psychoanalytic clinicians might find Jung's concepts helpful. They discuss Jung's approach to the dream, his understanding of psychotherapy as a dialectical procedure, and the theory of complexes and archetypes. They also review how Jung's notions of the Self and individuation are used in contemporary Jungian practice. A dream of a man in his mid-30s is presented to illustrate how these formulations can facilitate understanding of the patient and the analytic process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Training facilities of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich.

The institute "was founded on April 24, 1948, under the aegis of the Board of Education of the Cantonal Government of Zurich with Jung as its President. The purpose of the institute was to serve as a coordinating center for study, training, and research in Analytical Psychology." The faculty consists primarily of qualified analytical psychologists. Major sections are: Admission Requirements, Program of Study and Training (Phase I. Theoretical Training, Phase II. Practical Training), Student Body, and Library Facilities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of what Jung really said.

Reviews the book, What Jung Really Said by E. A. Bennet (see record 1971-08465-000). An exposition of Carl Gustav Jung's theories, the volume also contains a brief summary of Jung's career and a discussion of his influences. An index and notes are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Influence of carl Jung and William james on the origin of Alcoholic Anonymous.

Alcoholics Anonymous is probably the most influential self-help organization in the world, with a current worldwide membership approaching 2 million. The origin of the organization has ties to Carl Gustav Jung and William James, 2 very prominent figures in the history of psychology. A brief history of the events that led to the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous is presented, with particular emphasis on the influence of Jung and James. An account of relevant life events of both Jung and James is provided, in addition to a summary of their views on alcoholism and its treatment. Speculation is offered on how the 2 men might view their unsolicited association with the organization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Theoretical orientation in psychology and the traditions of Freud, Jung, and Adler.

I hypothesized that the theoretical views of psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, and Adlerian counselors would differ in ways corresponding to recognized differences in the views of Freud, Jung, and Adler. Copies of the Theoretical Orientation Survey were sent to members of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. Mailing was continued until 30 completed forms were obtained from each of these societies. Of the three groups, the Jungians proved to be the most subjectivistic and the Freudians the most objectivistic, though all three groups were more subjectivistic on the average than psychologists in general. The three groups differed more markedly on the dimension of endogenism versus exogenism; the Jungians were most endogenist and the Adlerians were most exogenist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The empiricist as rebel: Jung, Freud, and the burdens of discipleship

However little they share in common, both Freudian and Jungian commentators have long agreed that Jung's theoretical development in the years following his psychoanalytic affiliation prompted an open "split" with Freud and the psychoanalytic movement. Careful examination of Jung's principal "rebel" works does not sustain this thesis, however, but rather indicates Jung's honest belief that his limited appropriation of certain psychoanalytic mechanisms and attendant theoretical modifications constituted full-fledged loyalty to psychoanalysis as he understood it. This perception receives significant support from the Freud-Jung correspondence which reveals Jung openly articulating the ground rules defining his loyalty to psychoanalysis as early as 1906, and Freud accepting, and even approving, his protégé's empirical reservations over the course of the next five years.     

Deep dyslexia and the right hemisphere hypothesis: Evidence from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

Discusses the theory that asserts that the residual reading abilities seen in deep dyslexia entirely reflect the operation of an intact right hemisphere reading system rather than a partially disabled left hemisphere reading system. Evidence from an experiment with normal Ss in a report by the present author and colleagues (1983) is presented, which suggests that the right hemisphere contains no lexical entries for abbreviations that can be accessed by visual presentation. Data are presented from studies by K. E. Patterson (1980; see also PA, Vols 63:12203 and 64:10691) on 2 male deep dyslexic's understanding of printed abbreviations, along with observations of a young female deep dyslexic who was tested on understanding of abbreviations and on letter-naming abilities. Considerable sparing of the ability to obtain semantic information from printed abbreviations was evidenced in all 3 Ss. This contrast suggests that the current right hemisphere account of the residual reading abilities seen in deep dyslexia is not a sufficient one and should be modified. (French abstract) (29 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

H. H. Goddard and the immigrants.

Responds to comments by D. D. Dorfman (see record 1982-25821-001), D. Gersh (see record 1982-25825-001), R. J. Herrnstein (1981), and L. J. Kamin (see record 1982-25833-001) on the source of data cited in H. H. Goddard's (1917) article on mental tests with immigrants. An attempt is made to clarify what the cited data about the immigrants represent. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Smearing the opposition: Implicit and explicit stigmatization of the 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates and the current U.S. President.

Four studies investigated whether political allegiance and salience of outgroup membership contribute to the phenomenon of acceptance of false, stigmatizing information (smears) about political candidates. Studies 1–3 were conducted in the month prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and together demonstrated that pre-standing opposition to John McCain or Barack Obama, as well as the situational salience of differentiating social categories (i.e., for Obama, race; for McCain, age), contributed to the implicit activation and explicit endorsement of smearing labels (i.e., Obama is Muslim; McCain is senile). The influence of salient differentiating categories on smear acceptance was particularly pronounced among politically undecided individuals. Study 4 clarified that social category differences heighten smear acceptance, even if the salient category is semantically unrelated to the smearing label, showing that, approximately 1 year after the election, the salience of race amplified belief that Obama is a socialist among undecided people and McCain supporters. Taken together, these findings suggest that, at both implicit and explicit cognitive levels, social category differences and political allegiance contribute to acceptance of smears against political candidates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

E. L. Thorndike and the immediacy of reinforcement.

The earliest reference to the immediacy of reinforcement in E. L. Thorndike's writings is found in Animal Intelligence (1911), not in Volume 1 of Educational Psychology as previously stated in an earlier article by L. T. Benjamin and R. Perloff (1982). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Development of the role of occupational health nursing in the U.S. and future perspectives in the U.S. and Japan

From 1988 to 1995, a bronchial washing was performed on 118 cases of middle lobe syndrome at the National Himeji Hospital. Twenty cases (16.9%) were positive for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). All cases were middle-aged (mean age 54.8), non-smoking women. Fourteen cases were asymptomatic and showed only abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film, while others complained cough, sputum or hemosputum. CT examinations were done on 13 patients, and pulmonary infiltrations were found in addition to right middle lobe or lingula in many cases. It is important to note that MAC infection might be one of causes of middle lobe syndrome.     

Self-ratings and the EPPS.

Graduate students received the EPPS, a self-rating scale of 15 items assessing the same variables of the EPPS, and an ideal self-rating scale based on the same 15 variables. A 3-week interval between test and retest obtained lower reliability coefficients than Edwards. The findings warrant conclusions that "(a) the EPPS has satisfactory test-retest reliability; (b) the EPPS correlated with self-ratings on the variables which it purports to measure; (c) the EPPS does not correlate with ideal self-ratings on the variables which it purports to measure." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Carol and the beanstalk.

Contends that the hypothesis put forth by Carol Gilligan is simple. The current theories of psychological development are biased by a single track comprehension of maturity--separation-individuation. This is a motif for all modern theories. There is nothing wrong here, except, the separation-individuation track has a distinctly male turn to it. In other words men develop in that way but, typically, women hardly identify with it. Gilligan studies, among other things, the relation between identity and moral choice as they are integrated during the long transition from adolescence to adulthood. What Gilligan has offered is not a substitution of one theory for another but a profound clarification about development and experience. People move and mature at a pace and along a course of development often outside their or our awareness. Men and women differ in these courses even though there is a "teleology"...a convergence in parity. Gilligan true to her research interests and her basic honesty as a scientist, draws her conclusions well within the boundaries of her science--identity and its intriguing connection to moral development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Aesthetics and the environment.

This article presents a framework for understanding aesthetic experience, with special reference to the natural environment. The framework entails 2 broad perspectives. First, from a functional perspective, aesthetic experiences are analyzed in terms of biological, sociocultural, and psychological systems of behavior; succinctly stated, objects are experienced aesthetically if they activate cognitive representations of response patterns that do or did contribute to the survival or enhancement of the species, society, or the self. Second, from the perspective of mediating mechanisms, the cognitive processes that enable aesthetic experiences are examined. The mechanisms discussed range from simple sensory processes to the activation and transformation of complex schemes. To the extent that cognitive representations of behavioral systems are flexible and subject to elaboration and refinement, aesthetic experience is a creative, skillful act. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lunacy and the moon.

Reviews empirical literature concerning the belief in a relationship between phases of the moon and human behavior. Studies are examined relating lunar phase to psychiatric hospital admissions, suicides, and homicides. It is concluded that lunar phase is not related to human behavior and that the few positive findings are examples of a Type I error. (39 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)