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Thank you to the entire panel. However, I must applaud Mary Brady, in particular, for the sheer courage to write (and speak) about her subject. Your subject matter really needs to be taken up more squarely by our field despite all the obvious internal and societal pressures not to do so.
Can someone please clarify the names of the pychologists mentioned at time stamps 14:45 and 15:50? It is difficult to hear and the subtitles do not pick them up
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Thank you all. Do you think that the exclusionary practices in psychoanalytic education( militarily called training with control cases) has been influenced at all by the unspoken trauma of the holocaust? We rarely talk about the cruelty, even sadism, in our own field.
I feel disgruntled. I thought the IPA was far removed from all political issues, but I came across the IPA's letter condemning the Hamas terror attack. Of course, it is a horrific event that needed to be condemned. However, when I researched anything about genocide in Palestine, I couldn't find anything. Why is that? Isn't the main purpose of psychoanalysis to speak about what is not being spoken? What is the reason for this silence? I want to share my thoughts and feelings because if anyone feels there is something wrong here, you are not alone. There is a significant silence and wrongdoing in our society. I am a young psychologist from Istanbul and I won't be silent.
I feel disgruntled. I thought the IPA was far removed from all political issues, but I came across the IPA's letter condemning the Hamas terror attack. Of course, it is a horrific event that needs to be condemned. However, when I researched anything about genocide in Palestine, I couldn't find anything. Why is that? Isn't the main purpose of psychoanalysis to speak about what is not being spoken? What is the reason for this silence? I want to share my thoughts and feelings because if anyone feels there is something wrong here, you are not alone. There is a significant silence and wrongdoing in our society. I am a young psychologist from Istanbul and I won't be silent.
WOW. So nice to see you online, Sue ( Dr. Kolod). Your project seems vital and imperative. I commend you for taking on this somewhat hopeless task. And I feel a bit more encouraged that Your voice is well in the mix.
in response to the potential of "machine to machine projective identification"... would each machine, receiving unique sets of data not end up with an "accent"... a unique bias which would affect it's "expectations " of the response of the other machine... in effect a projection on the other machine... which would in turn react to that particular stimulus based on it's own unique bias, potentially creating a cascade of interleaving biased responses which could lead to misunderstanding, misrepresentation and conflict... just like between people?
List of Kernberg's "Affect Systems": Attachment system, sexual system, play/affiliation system, fight/flight system, panic system. He implies that each can be identified in the neurobiology/neuroendocrinology of the limbic system.
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The first psychologist I saw when I was 20 in 1968 was a Freudian psychoanalyst. I did not know how blessed and privileged I was. It was better than any of the many other therapy modalities I tried throughout the rest of my life. The next best was by Reichian therapist an adherent of Wilhelm Reich a disciple of Freud.
I am the case 2 character. And now I am a father and I doing all the same mistakes. Hopefully I could go to therapy and fix it for my sons future health.
Drives are unconsciously acted out, via feelings. They are almost separate from other forms of treatments for resolution of one's dysfunctional childhood. Everything is chaotic and intertwined until all is unraveled. (Someone will need to describe Freud's death drive to me, because I have not discovered it, and I don't understand it.)
Getting back to the possibility of psychosis originating in infancy, while making a 2nd cup of coffee, I decided that there could be something to this theory. Then I realized that my parental, childhood family would be a primary case study. Then, I connected more dots....omg...here goes, in a nut shell. BTW, it's taken me a lifetime to fix myself. Only 2 days ago I finally looked into autism, knowing that my score was 22 out of 35 questions on an online test for autism; but who takes online quizzes seriously, right? I certainly did not, until 2 days ago someone sent me a decent discussion on autism. I was shocked that I could finally make sense of all my oddness. This also explains why I could never let go of my inner world. Here I am, at 77 years old. A few years ago I dreamt that an entire family had been murdered in their pale yellow house. Of course I knew instantaneously that this was my family and that it was a metaphor for my childhood family. Psychologically murdered. I thought to myself, me too? Of course, I needed to die before I could become me. I became me through my self analysis...my experiential analysis. Moving on... My father was introverted and quiet. Not so much that he could not run his self owned office supply business in small town mid America. He was a PK kid and met mom at a Christian college, They had two families, my 2 much older sisters, then, my 1.5 year older brother and I. (who should have been a boy baby according to the doctor - my mother had her heart set on this reality.) After 2 weeks, I was told 54 years later that she was too nervous because my 1.5 yr old brother was getting into things around our small, then, house. The family moved to that pale yellow house (white, in reality) when I was 3. At age 6 or 7 I was distraught that my brother held the nose of our sweet dachshund shut when they were playing together. Clearly Mandy was struggling to breathe. He laughed, I was horrified. There were adults in the room, who said nothing. I yelled at Peter to stop. I don't remember him doing such a thing again. However, in my mind this was the 1st indication that he was different from me, I mean psychologically, years later. Sadistic. Mom, as stated previously had a delusional disorder, unknown to the family. Years later, when in my early 20's dad said to me that mom could not love. I thought that he was saying that she could not love him, her husband. Moving on, my father could love, he was always different from her. I sensed this as a small child. I don't want to drag my comments further into my day, so I need to summarize. My brother could be autistic. He left the family at 16, and later cut off all ties with the family when he and I were in late teens. My oldest sister inherited a different but related delusional disorder, my 2nd sister (and second mother) was BPD. She sadistically teased and bullied me starting most likely beginning in the big house. I adored her as a child, even though she was mean to me, sometimes. This pattern continued until her death at 86. I had "garden variety"delusional thinking when I entered as the female (subject) analysand for the psychiatrist in training. I do not know if he was aware of my delusion, it was never discussed. And to be honest, I only recall telling him my constant, non ending sleep dreams, to which he never attempted to interpret. This is not to say that he couldn't analyze. He was the one who told me that mother emotionally neglected me. (I had no idea to what he meant.) Yet, I had no reason to not believe him, either. I remember always attempting to understand reality when I began college, realizing that there were many. I was always trying to narrow reality down to only mine and that of the world at large. OK, you all need to fill in the blanks, this is the best I will do, in this format. Especially since I can only use one finger entering data because I have no one handed keyboard. To summarize, the infancy origin of pychosis later in life looks to have a probability of nearly 1.0. What a fascinating topic for further research! As I think further, and later in the day, I want to say that my father was not crazy. However, he lost his sense of manhood when he lost considerable money in the stock market. As he said to me, at that time, he was ruined; he was extremely distraught. It was only then that my mother started selling Shaklee Products in SF, NM. It suited her well. She was always interested in nutrition, so she studied and learned more about it. At this stage, my father lost his identity, which in my mind is what trips the dementia switch. He was thought to have Alzheimer's since these were the years it began to make the front covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. I'm reasonably sure he did not. I had more than one intelligent conversation with him before he truly descended into dementia. I lived 60 miles away from them, enrolled in university; I made frequent visits home, to support mom and to hug my father. It was a very difficult time for each of us. Mother was insidious and easily overpowered my quiet, introverted father. Prior to dad marrying mother after graduating college, he knew things were not right with her. However, she was quite beautiful, especially in those years (and far into old age, truthfully.) No doubt he was smitten with her, early on. In one of those honest and open conversations with him during a time mom was taking a break from his care of him, I spent the week with dad during mom's break to visit my oldest sister on the east coast. He told me never to marry unless it felt "right. Nothing more was said, or needed to be said. I understood the implication, then and more so, as I put all the pieces of our dysfunctional family together. I was the sole sibling who connected with dad. Things were always off between my brother and dad. They simply could not relate to one another for as long as I can remember. Not for not trying - they did many activities together such as playing tennis, hunting and fishing. However, there were never any discussions of emotions and feelings, ever. My brother never took any interest in my father's business. Perhaps it was because I did. It seems that one day I got into dad's car and went to work with him. I was very little when this began, 3 most likely. This was not a one time occasion. I have many memories of the two businesses dad had, and all the store bookkeeper ladies who sometimes invited me to their homes for lunch. And of a male employee who rode his Harley motorcycle to work to repair office equipment. I always was intrigued with that big machine with the oversized seat and the shiny chrome handle bars and mechanics. LOL I miss both parents, to this day., in spite of the difficulties experienced.
These beliefs make much sense, instead of Freud's drive theory. I don't discount Freud, entirely, it's his approach to understanding babies that is simply too improvable, hence, nonsensical. I do believe babies have more awareness that makes them aware of an object outside of themselves. I question the concept between infant psychosis and adult psychosis - it's an interesting theory. Yes, what causes psychosis. I 've always wonder about this. I could address much of the transference relationship. However, I don't want to be here all day. I will only say that my 8+ year 5/5 per week was lacking in most realms since my "analyst" was only in training mode. I think he represented both my mother and father, but in the end, years later, I believed he was the holding place for my father. I terminated myself because we were not moving forward, only going in circles. In those days attachment theory was not part of analysis. I attached to my father. My mother was mentally ill with a delusional disorder...I only recently accepted this reality. In my mind, Christianity does far more harm than good. Thank you for uploading this presentation. I love learning.
