Wynn Schwartz Ph.D Archive
Projective identification is a process whereby unwanted split-off parts of the self are forced into the object so as to control the object from inside. Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts, Auchincloss & Samberg, ed. 2012Here’s an example: A supervisee, we’ll call …
The Foundations of Behavioral Science "I am myself and my circumstance." Ortega y Gasset"...These concepts: proposition, language, thought, world, stand in line one behind the other, each equivalent to each. (But what are these words to be used for now? …
There are monsters among us. A pilot, depressive and narcissistic, learns that his flying for Germanwings will be curtailed by his medical condition. His knows his problematic eyesight will end his career and kill his dream of captaining for Lufthansa. …
Poorly framed descriptions of psychotherapy serve as a pretext for the requirement that the efficacy of therapy requires demonstration through randomized control trials. Such restriction involves an inadequate conceptualization of the nature of psychotherapeutic engagement but is an understandable reaction …
Confusions and uncertainty in sexual feeling and identity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.The solution for those who do raise such questions is not to find an answer (there isn't any to be found) but to outgrow the inclination …
What brings me back to psychoanalysis? What do I want to teach in the semester to follow? I’ll start with and come back to Freud. Freud had two commitments that remain mine. The first is to a vision of our …
Z may participate in one way rather than another (choose certain options rather than others) as a way of letting C know what kind of person Z is.If C has a given relationship to Z, C’s behavior potential is different …
and how chasing your tail makes sense. Policies are guides to how we'd like to live our lives. Maxims are the behavioral logic that guide proper description."If the situation calls for a person to do something he can't do, he …
Mindful Uncertainty: I, Thou and Empathy … in terms of technique: He should simply listen, and not bother about whether he is keeping anything in mind. Anyone who hopes to learn the noble game of chess from books will soon …
Adaptation in Evolution and Behavior: A short conversation among Descriptive Psychologists.A week of so after first posting, “ Playingfor the Fun of It….”, I added the following paragraph. Since I was arguing that play is intrinsic and involves intentional actions …
