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R C Calogeras

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PubMed1995

Hypnotically recalling dreams during analysis.

This study described the procedure, the theoretical rationale, and clinical material relating to the hypnotic recalling of dreams during periods of protracted "dreamless" analyses. Two clinical examples were used to demonstrate the efficacy of using a special hypnotic procedure close to the analytic free-association method for the remembering or recalling the dreams. Discussion of the clinical material found: 1. the main factors contributing to a "dreamless" analysis were to be found in the transference-countertransference resistances of the analysis; 2. the justification for introducing the special hypnotic procedure as a parameter in the analysis was discussed and confirmed; 3. the remembering-recalling of the first dream--following the hypnotic intervention--lead to the recovery of a critical childhood memory; and 4. the parameter of using hypnosis as a method of breaking the intractable resistance of a "dreamless" analysis did not become an alien force which intervened whenever strong resistances appeared. On the contrary, it seemed to serve as a temporary therapeutic mechanism for allowing an energy shift to occur in the all-or-none defensive state of a "dreamless" analysis.

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PubMed1991

[Psychoanalysis and cancer. A case report and a hypothesis].

The psychoanalytic treatment of a 39 year old female cancer patient demonstrates a close connection between psychic factors (cumulative separation trauma, conflict-laden relationship to the mother, oedipal conflicts etc.) and the onset and course of the cancer. After eight years of analytic therapy the cancer symptoms disappeared. The authors formulate the hypothesis that cancer may occur on a primarily somatic or psychic basis.

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PubMed1987

The transvestite and his wife.

This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion. In his marriage, this patient dramatically recapitulated many of his infantile core conflicts, fixations, and traumas associated with his cross-dressing. These were: (1) the marital crisis which brought him into analysis and its associations with his split gender identifications; (2) his wife's ability to force him into cross-dressing on cue; (3) the extent to which his cross-dressing was dependent on the degree of psychic separateness he felt from his wife; and (4) his and his wife's complementary transvestite fantasies. Both this man and his wife's attempted to use their marriage as a cure for resolving their complementary transvestite problem. The extent to which they were able to accomplish this before the husband's "breakdown" (brought about by the wife's affair) was examined. The nature of his transvestite transference--what was termed his "John Wayne transference"--provided him with the ideal vehicle for the transferential working-through of the many aspects of his transvestite pathology. The continuance of a strong positive and unanalyzed transference after the formal end of the analysis was commented upon.

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PubMed1985

Early object-relations conflicts in marital interaction.

In this paper I have tried to show how certain early object-relations conflicts in marital interaction had their principal source in the rapprochement phase of the separation-individuation process. The clinical material suggested that only a tenuous separation from the early mother had been achieved, and now the spouse (be it husband or wife) had become the new maternal representation; the early mother-child interaction was being recapitulated once again between husband and wife. It was the conflicts and vicissitudes of the rapprochement crisis which were instrumental in shaping the patient's infantile neurosis and not just the oedipal struggle of the infantile neurosis prototype. The clinical material furthers confirmation of marriage as a viable developmental phase. Considering such marital interaction from the point of view of our analytic technique, it provided a unique occurrence where the infantile neurosis, the adult neurosis (i.e., the pathological marital union) and the transference neurosis came together. Two issues were thrown into clearer focus by this confluence: first, the repetition compulsion principle was distinctly demonstrated; and second, support for recovery of experience from preverbal and semiverbal stages of early object relations was forthcoming.

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PubMed1985

Family pathology and the infantile neurosis.

In this study we have attempted to investigate the connection (in the sense of a complex interplay) between the infantile and the adult neurosis where severe family pathology has been an important determining force. In the clinical illustrations of two female patients we tried to determine the fate (i.e. in terms of the compulsion to repeat) of the early infantile conflicts and experiences within the purview of their pathological family condition. In sorting this out, we distinguished between those repetitions viewed as passive reproductions and those repetitions viewed, as re-creative; the former finding their way essentially into the adult neurosis, the latter finding their way into parts of the personality under the aegis of their ego's organizing activity. The fashion in which the family pathology impinged upon the adult neurosis made the development of the transference in the analytic situation a most difficult arena for clarification, since there was a tendency to confuse past (early) events, past fantasy, current reality and current fantasy. In concluding we noted that both Oedipus complex and oedipal drama came together in these patients, revealing the link between the tragedy of their life-long family situation and what was termed a 'fate neurosis'.

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PubMed1982

Sleepwalking and the traumatic experience.

During the closing months of an analysis, a patient suddenly began to sleepwalk. The exploring of this phenomenon, by means of a pivotal dream which ultimately connected with a severe traumatic experience of early childhood, provided confirming evidence for what had previously come out in the treatment regarding his developmental history and pathologic family milieu. Central to the over-determined meanings connected with the sleepwalking was its role as a special type of motoric dream activity which served the function of mastery of traumatic stimuli on several different levels. The exploration of this mastery function led to its linkage with such other aspects of the sleepwalking as its repetitive-compulsive basis, its similarity to the hypnotic state, and its intraphysic communicative function. The sleepwalking, the clarifying dream at its re-occurrence, and its transference reenactment all converged during the final phase of the analysis and were worked through with favourable resolution for the patient.

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PubMed1980

On "action language" in psychoanalysis.

The main tenets of action language are summarized in an attempt to discern the direction in which psychoanalysis might go if action language becomes the "new metapsychology." The principal roots of action language are traced to the different linguistic/language and personality-and-culture models of anthropology and to the neobehaviorist currents of academic psychology. The authors' findings support the hypothesis that action language is a form os psychoanalytic behaviorism having idealism, logical positivism, and radical empiricism as its philosophical underpinnings. Its adoption would confound the entire motivational aspect of psychoanalysis. Specifically, the authors suggest that action language falls under the aegis of Wittgenstein's family of language games. When the action language game is said to be brought to a successful resolution, the language game disappears and, supposedly, so do the patient's conflicts.

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