ISSN 2576-9375
SPRING 2019 ISSUE
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Article abstracts (Vol. 2, no. 1 Spring 2019)Editor's Note (PDF)
Attachment and Affection: Parenting, Emotional Adjustment, and Lifespan Development
Virginia M. Shiller, Ph.D. Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale University Child Study Center Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice ABSTRACT Attachment theory and research have revolutionized our understanding of child development and of the importance of attuned, sensitive parenting. Beginning in the mid-19th century, John Bowlby introduced the notion that a parent’s physical presence and emotional responsiveness have a fundamental influence on how a child develops. In the 1970s Bowlby’s colleague Mary Ainsworth published a rigorous study that demonstrated there is a strong relationship between parenting behavior and child security. Her laboratory Strange Situation Procedure provided a now well-known vehicle to assess children’s attachment security. Several longitudinal studies that have followed children from infancy to adulthood provide rich information about experiences which impact children’s mental health, social skills, and character. Overall, in the past several decades, we have learned a great deal about the causes and consequences of different patterns of attachment behaviors. The DSM-IV and Classical Schools of Psychotherapy: Five Case Studies Utilizing Diagnostic Formulation and Psychotherapeutic Analysis
Anthony DeMieri, Psy.D., LCSW Clinical Social Worker ABSTRACT The eight classical schools of psychotherapy will always stand firm in the ground of clinical practice despite considerable changes and altercations within the psychotherapy field. With the advent of CBT, REBT, DBT, and a whole host of other psychotherapeutic techniques, the eight classical schools are, as it were, a breath of fresh air, and offer illuminating insights into understanding a person’s worldview as applied to the psychotherapeutic modality. Within these series of five case studies I attempt to analyze the presenting issues confronting patients and offer wisdom as filtered through the lens of the eight classical schools of psychotherapy. We can see from the five case studies that each patient presents his own set of challenges, own set of strengths, and unique pattern of behaviors at relating to the world. The eight classical schools of psychotherapy provide rich insight into the human condition- both on an individual and group dimension. On the larger picture, beyond individual and group, the eight classical school of psychotherapy allow the clinician to understand the interplay that the person experiences with the world at large. Freud set the foundation for what was to become a revolutionary understanding of how the human mind functions. Jung adds depth to Freud by providing clinicians with a framework of the collective unconscious, Rogers with unconditional positive regard, Adler with the inferiority complex, Erickson with the stages of development, Maslow with his hierarchy of human needs and the richness of achieving and striving towards self-actualization, Frankl with his emphasis on finding meaning in even the darkest hours of one’s existence; hope still can exist with a person, project, or idea that inspires and gives a person meaning and purpose. Closest to contemporary matters from the eight classical schools, Sullivan provides us with a deeper understanding of the fractured mind. Together, the eight classical schools embody the soil from which other psychotherapeutic techniques emerge. The eight classical schools of psychotherapy are a priceless tool in the clinician’s treasure chest of praxis oriented treatment for a variety of mental health issues. Engaging the Core: A Brief Exploration of Using Rogerian Theory to Establish a Framework for a Humanistic Model of Educating Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
Eric Shyman, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Child Study, St. Joseph’s College (New York) ABSTRACT While therapeutic methodologies for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) receives much attention in the literature, the paradigmatic organization appears to be based on a dichotomy of “behavioristic” versus “non-behavioristic,” with none described specifically as humanistic. However, in the greater literature involving therapeutic methods for a number of other conditions the characterization of particular methodologies as humanistic is both well-defined and quite common. It is suggested that this discrepancy is the result of the non-existence of a definition for humanistic methodologies for ASD combined with the over-reliance on the “behavioristic/non-behavioristic” dichotomy. This paper will proffer a brief exploration of a potential means of characterizing methodological approaches for ASD as humanistic based on Rogerian concepts. Anna Freud and the Development of Child Psychopathology: A Legacy of Brilliance
John H. Morgan, Ph.D., D.Sc., Psy.D. Senior Fellow in Behavioral Science (ret.), Foundation House/Oxford (UK) ABSTRACT There is little question within the medical community that Anna Freud is fundamentally responsible for the launching of a monumental movement within psychiatry and psychotherapy towards the clinical study and treatment in child psychopathology. We have seen in our brief history of this movement in the study of child behavioral disorders that others preceded her and in their own right made significant contributions to this field. Nevertheless, and that being acknowledged, Anna Freud’s movement from within the ranks of classical psychoanalysis towards the application of traditional categories of diagnosis and treatment in a new mode of utility constituted the appearance of what would eventuate into a grand school of thought called neo-Freudian psychoanalysis. Never leaving the fundamental tenants and building blocks of classical psychoanalysis as she learned it from her father, she quite clearly and with intentionality adapted these building blocks to suit her own clinical experience in working with children suffering from behavioral disorders. Her series of lectures, later published as The Psychoanalytical Treatment of Children, unquestionably established both the field of child psychiatry and Anna Freud as the founder of child psychoanalysis (A. Freud, 1964). Though this recognition came early in her professional life, it did not come easily owing to the uniqueness of her medical and academic training, such as it was. But it did come and stayed with her throughout her life and even today there is no question of the centrality of her work in the current clinical practice of child psychoanalysis and psychiatry. special section: featured authors
Featured authors provide an introductory essay on their own recently released books. Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind, and Analysis Today by Gerald J. Gargiulo Faculty, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis; Supervising Faculty, Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Psychoanalyst Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind, and Analysis Today (2016) by Gerald J. Gargiulo is published by International Psychoanalytic Books. I had been troubled for many years by the accepted accusation that therapy in general and psychoanalysis in particular were not, in any way scientific, but simply humanistic enterprises. I had no trouble conceptualizing psychoanalysis as humanistic experience but always felt that it was more than that, that it also had a scientific ground space. But not, however, the standard Newtonian model of what constitutes scientific, i.e., neutral observers and repeatable results. Each of the quantum chapters in the text reflect my growing knowledge of and application of quantum findings and my conviction that using quantum models, rather than Newtonian models, offers a scientific framework by which to appreciate psychoanalysis. In this pursuit I have been influenced by many authors such as Mara Bella, Gary Zukav, Niels Bohn, Werner Heisenberg and Brian Greene. Their contributions, among others, are evident throughout the text. The text reflects my search for understanding which became both an intellectual and a personal quest for me. The extensive number of quantum physicists who have written popular explanations were not only enlightening but also, inspiring. The text does not demand any background in physics – no mathematics are used to establish proofs – rather, it summarizes the findings of noted physicists and relates such findings to some primary therapy experiences. The Attachment Bond: Affectional Ties across the Lifespan By Virginia M. Shiller Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale University Child Study Center; Clinical psychologist in private practice The Attachment Bond: Affectional Ties across the Lifespan (2017) by Virginia M. Shiller is published by Lexington Books. Since the 1970s, thousands of studies on attachment have been conducted worldwide. The 2016 Handbook of Attachment, a compendium of all relevant research, needed more than 1,000 pages to cover the past five decades of this work. While comprehensive, this daunting volume will likely discourage all but the most ambitious of readers. In The Attachment Bond, I have striven to identify the most important findings from the many studies reviewed in the Handbook, and worked to balance careful analysis with anecdotes and quotes which bring the findings to life. John Bowlby pioneered the study of attachment in the mid-1900s, and his research assistant Mary Ainsworth went on to conduct a rigorous study of attachment, summarized in the 1978 book Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation. Intensive home observations allowed Ainsworth and colleagues to identify the parenting characteristics that contributed to qualitatively different responses when children experienced stress from separation from their mothers. In home observations, mothers had been rated on their sensitivity, degree of cooperation, acceptance, and accessibility. |
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This journal strives to present a balance between the DSM and humanistic psychology and will have as its focus the fostering of work by adjunct and junior faculty teaching and researching in the field of psychology.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
John H. Morgan, Ph.D. (Hartford), D.Sc.(London), Psy.D.(Foundation House/Oxford)
Senior Fellow in Behavioral Science (ret.), Foundation House/Oxford (UK)
Member: American Psychopathological Association; American Psychological Association;
Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12)
Senior Fellow in Behavioral Science (ret.), Foundation House/Oxford (UK)
Member: American Psychopathological Association; American Psychological Association;
Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12)
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Michael L. Brock, Psy.D.
University of Dallas Richard G. Boudreau, M.D., Psy.D. Marina Del Rey Hospital Thomas Cordier, Ph.D. New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Psychiatry Nancy Dietsch, Psy.D. San Diego VA Healthcare Muhammad Hatim, Ph.D. Private Addictions Counselor Charles Ignatius, Ph.D. Bon Secours Health System |
Eric Shyman, Ed.D.
St. Joseph's College New York Shinichi Tagami, Ph.D. Mt. Olive Hospital, Okinawa Michael Teiger, M.D. University of Connecticut Health Center Arthur Waskow, Ph.D. The Shalom Center Hui Xu, Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago |
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