scholarly journals Psychodynamic Mechanisms Of Capgras Phenomenon

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
C.P. Korolenko ◽  
N.V. Dmitrieva ◽  
L.V. Levina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
Potential Possibility

The paper focuses on the psychodynamic mechanisms of Capgras phenomenon, a rare and insufficiently studied mental disorder, which has not been paid much attention to in clinical psychology and psychiatry up to the present. Despite the fact that the phenomenon was described in 1923 it has not been properly studied yet, though it is widely spread in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice. The most important issue at present is to understand the underlying psychodynamic mechanisms, which can make psychotherapeutic work more effective. The paper contains several clinic cases, which can facilitate understanding of psychic peculiarities of patients suffering from the syndrome. Emphasis is put on the necessity to reveal the syndrome’s causes and the resources hidden in the unconscious as a potential possibility to overcome Capgras phenomenon.

scholarly journals Charcot, Janet, and French Models of Psychopathology

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-340
Author(s):  
Olivier Walusinski ◽  
Julien Bogousslavsky
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Personal Power ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychic Automatism ◽  
Jean Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), thanks to his insight as a clinician can be said to be one of the precursors of scientific psychology. Charcot’s 30 years of activity at La Salpêtrière hospital display an intellectual trajectory that decisively changed the idea of human psychology by favouring the emergence of two concepts: the subconscious and the unconscious. It was his collaboration with Pierre Janet (1859–1947), a philosopher turned physician, that led to this evolution, relying on the search for hysteria’s aetiology, using hypnosis as a method of exploration. Focusing on clinical psychology that was experimental and observational, Janet built a theory of psychic automatism, “the involuntary exercise of memory and intelligence” leading to “independence of the faculties, freed from personal power.” From all that came the idea of the subconscious, a functioning as a passive mental mechanism, resulting from a more or less temporary dissociation of previously associated mental content.

scholarly journals Exploring Dialogic Position of Psychology Students in Educational Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
T.I. Suryaninova ◽  
A.S. Fetisova
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Projective Technique ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
Research Techniques

The process of psychotherapeutic practice requires the psychologist to be able to engage in dialogue. To date, no express tests have been developed to assess the dialogic position. In the course of theoretical analysis we identified the main views on understanding the dialogic position, qualities that contribute to its development (empathy, reflectivity, personality orientation in communication) and developed a projective technique for its assessment. The expression of these qualities was in- vestigated in 80 students of biotechnology and clinical psychology programmes. The sample was represented by one experimental (20 subjects) and three control groups (20 subjects each). The following research techniques were applied: “Reflectivity as a psychological attribute” by A.R. Karpov; “Assessment of empathy levels” by V.V. Boyko; “Personality orientation in communication” by S.N. Bratchenko. Analysis of the results’ factor structure showed the presence of three fac- tors closely related to empathy, reflectivity, features of dialogic orientation and dialogic position. The study confirmed the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the orientation of the educational process and the development of the dialogic position. The procedure of verification of the developed technique con- firmed its effectiveness in assessing the dialogic position.

scholarly journals THE IMAGINATIVE SPHERE OF THE PSYCHE AS THE FOCUS OF WORKING WITH CLIENT PROBLEMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Margarita Ye. Kirichkova ◽  
Irina P. Krasnoshchyochenko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Subject

The article is devoted to the consideration of working with the client’s problem in a psychotherapeutic practice-oriented psychology. The authors rely on the provisions formulated by leading Russian psychologists about the imaginative sphere and participation in the thinking of sensory images that trigger simultanisation – the simultaneous flow of mental processes at the rational and irrational levels, on the idea of the translational function of the figurative sphere of a person, providing the possibility of deep contact of the subject with hidden areas of the inner world, on the provisions of the quantum paradigm of consciousness in physics, etc. The article analyses two groups of psychotherapeutic approaches to working with a client’s problem, depending on which emphasis prevails. In the framework of the first, there is a predominant contribution to the extraction of images from the unconscious and their interpretation. These approaches provide a psychotherapeutic effect. The second group focuses on the transformation of the image of the client’s problem in the psychotherapeutic process by the using of special procedures, that actualises the transition to a higher level of client’s functioning in different spheres of life. It is such approaches that are most in demand in modern conditions.

Exorcism and Possession in Psychotherapy Practice

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
Psychotherapy Practice ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Set Up

There has been an evolution in the layman's concept of mental disorder. Medieval belief in possession by demons and witches gave way to a 19th century medical model and more recently classical psychoanalytic formulations. Concurrently professional helping endeavour has moved increasingly from a more traditionally medical to psychotherapeutic process, and from a classical psychotherapeutic process wherein the therapist remained to a degree unresponsive and detached to a more modern emphasis on such qualities as empathy, sensitivity, reliability, and optimism as ingredients of successful psychotherapeutic practice. Freud's account of Haizmann's demonological neurosis usefully formulates the possession concept in psychological terms. However, recent developments in psychotherapeutic practice argue for a validity in the possession model of psychological distress. The possessing forces of object relations psychology are of course not the possessing demons and witches of medieval times but the possessing good and bad objects of early intrapsychic life set up through processes of introjection and incorporation in response to frustration in the early infant-mother relationship. Points of similarity in this comparison should not obscure features of contrast — there is no place for histrionic manipulation nor for a moralistic attitude in the practice of psychotherapy. A case is described to illustrate these points.

Special, radical, failure of reduction in psychiatry

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Ross
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Brain Structure ◽  
Causal Structure ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Gambling Addiction ◽  
Brain Disorder ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Special Radical ◽  
Intentional Relationships

AbstractUse of network models to identify causal structure typically blocks reduction across the sciences. Entanglement of mental processes with environmental and intentional relationships, as Borsboom et al. argue, makes reduction of psychology to neuroscience particularly implausible. However, in psychiatry, a mental disorder can involve no brain disorder at all, even when the former crucially depends on aspects of brain structure. Gambling addiction constitutes an example.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey P. Kramer ◽  
Douglas A. Bernstein ◽  
Vicky Phares
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology
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