Unconscious (Psychology)

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Medical student dreams about medical school: the unconscious developmental process of becoming a physician.

This paper is a report on a collection of almost four hundred dreams of medical students and postgraduate trainees with the manifest content about medical training. It is a unique dream collection from a defined population that experiences a ...
Eric R Marcus (Int J Psychoanal, 200304)
medical-student-dreams-medical-school-unconscious-developmental.asp

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Daimonic elements in early trauma.

This paper explores some of the daimonic elements of unconscious mentation that emerge both in dreams and in the transference/countertransference field with early-trauma patients and illustrates these with an extended clinical example. An archaic and ...
Donald E Kalsched (J Anal Psychol, 200304)
daimonic-elements-early-trauma.asp

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Trauma and defences: their roots in relationship. An overview.

In this paper the differing psychodynamic models of defences are outlined and compared with an attachment theory perspective in which affect regulation plays a central role. Behavioural and intrapsychic distance regulation (defensive exclusion) are seen ...
Jean Knox (J Anal Psychol, 200304)
trauma-defences-roots-relationship-overview.asp

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Cross-cultural structures of concentric and diametric dualism in Lévi-Strauss structural anthropology: structures of relation underlying the self and ego relation?

The parallels between Jungs and Lévi-Strauss concentric cross-cultural structures of the unconscious are highlighted. Lévi-Strauss basic contrasts between concentric and diametric dualisms are developed into psychologically relevant differences regarding ...
Paul Downes (J Anal Psychol, 200302)
cross-cultural-structures-concentric-diametric-dualism-lévi-strauss.asp

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Comparison of two alternative measures of the boundary construct.

Mental boundaries is a traditional concept in psychology, although attempts to conceptualize and measure such boundaries empirically have only recently been pursued. Two major efforts in this respect are Hartmanns Boundary Questionnaire and the Revised ...
James Houran, Michael A Thalbourne, Ernest Hartman (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
comparison-two-alternative-measures-boundary-construct.asp

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Fantasy proneness, creative capacity, and styles of creativity.

The Creativity Styles Questionnaire-Revised was used to measure graduate psychology students (N=173) self-perceptions of creative capacity and styles of creativity (beliefs about and strategies for going about being creative). Participants also completed ...
Susanna A Lack, V K Kumar, Salvador Arevalo (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
fantasy-proneness-creative-capacity-styles-creativity.asp

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Picture interpretation and Jungian typology.

This study examined a Jungian picture interpretation schema, which utilizes a specific quadrant method. This proposed schema, which is used in training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, attaches significance to specific areas of a drawing. The upper ...
Derek P Bergeron, David H Rosen, Randolph C Arnau, Nathan Mascaro (J Anal Psychol, 200302)
picture-interpretation-jungian-typology.asp

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On not being able to dream.

In this paper, the author explores the phenomenon of not being able to dream (as opposed to not being able to remember ones dreams) from three different vantage points. First, from the point of view of psychoanalytic theory, he discusses Bions idea that ...
Thomas H Ogden (Int J Psychoanal, 200302)
not-able-dream.asp

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The impact of different directed forgetting instructions on implicit and explicit memory: new evidence from a modified process dissociation procedure.

In contrast to previous research on directed forgetting, the present studies adopted a recent modification of the process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991; Richardson-Klavehn & Gardiner, 1995) to accommodate the cross-contamination of memory test ...
Daniel David, Richard J Brown (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200302)
impact-different-directed-forgetting-instructions-implicit-explicit.asp

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In search of the elusive nature of clinical psychoanalytic theory.

Two case vignettes illustrating different ways of listening to clinical material are presented. The author discusses some limitations of clinical psychoanalytic theory that stem from the fact that primary unconscious processes are, by their very nature, ...
Alvaro Rey de Castro (Psychoanal Q, 200301)
search-elusive-nature-clinical-psychoanalytic-theory.asp