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M Ermann

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1994

[Sándor Ferenczis' aspirations and failure. His approach to regression from the current viewpoint].

In evaluating the findings of his experiments with psychoanalytic techniques, Ferenczi discovered the meta-function of the analyst's technique and the various forms of transference projected onto the psychoanalytic situation. What militated against a full understanding of his own discoveries was the lack of a genuinely comprehensive conception of the transference/counter-transference process as a functional unity. His experiments failed because he was unable to resolve the dilemma between technique and relationship that his dual objective had placed him in, seeking to combine a technique for transforming repetition into memory with an attitude communicating new experience.

Countertransference↗
PubMed1992

[The social network of families of HIV infected patients].

This paper is focused at the social network of families of HIV-infected persons. 13 families were interviewed in a depth-psychological oriented semi-structured manner. The evaluation took place primarily according to a qualitative manner. The central result is that families with HIV-infected members inform more seldom other persons out of the informal social network in comparison to former coping tasks like haemophilia, dependence of drugs or homosexuality, events which happened before the HIV-infection. Accordingly to that only some single persons or whole families use informal help for their coping process with HIV-infection. The infected themselves claim more often professional psychosocial help, sometimes some relatives do it, seldom the whole family. We mostly find the familial tendency of social retreat and of coping with the burdens without help from the outside. This tendency is forced by distrust, social anxieties and projective separation of familial conflicts in order to maintain familial stability.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1984

A specific and taxonomic differentiation between psychovegetative disorders and psychoneuroses.

120 patients with psychovegetative disorders and 124 patients with psychoneuroses were differentiated by means of systematic and taxonomic statistical procedures underlying variables from personality questionnaires. Both groups of patients were found to be different. But the double strategy of the differentiation shows that the discrimination is a relative one.

Diagnosis, Differential↗
PubMed1982

[Regression in inpatient-analytic psychotherapy. Reflections on indications and treatment strategy from the viewpoint of applied ego psychology].

This paper points out the differences in the dynamic processes of the regression between patients with neurotic ego-structures and those with disturbances of the ego-development during the psychoanalytic inpatient therapy. The main consequence is, that the indication for inpatient therapy is depending on the sufficient ego-strength, but not on the stage of the ego-development, and that the tactic of the treatment, its clinical organization and the structure of communication in the hospital should be adapted to the ego-structure. General criteria are that the inpatient treatment of neurotic patients should be limited to three of four months at most to avoid artificial splitting mechanisms, and that the treatment of ego-disturbed patients should be organized as an integrative one and managed by a special kind of team-cooperation in order to further the integrating and differenciating ego functions.

Ego↗
PubMed1982

[The psychovegetative disorders as an ego-structural problem].

The personality structure of patients suffering from psychovegetative disorders is described in the present article from aspects of the psychology of the ego. The focus of all such disorders is a defective desomatization of affectations and the functions of perception. In proportion to the extent of the developmental disorder this specific pathology of the ego is either employed regressively in the defense of conflicts or serves for the release of a structurally strongly limited ego. More precise investigation of the ego structure leads to the descrimination between vegetative neuroses as limited ego pathology on the one hand and psychovegetative disorders in the context of a more extensive ego pathology, as they occur in borderline syndromes or serious narcissistic disorders of the personality on the other. Diagnostically the discrimination may be made by considering the patients own description of their complaints and the structure of their characters, by evaluating the quality of anxiety and affectations, and on the basis of the dynamics of the psychotherapeutic relationship. Consequently there are characteristic differences for the course of treatment.

Adult↗