Sander M. Abend

THE ROLE OF IDENTIFICATION IN THE RESOLUTION OF TRAUMA: THE ANNA FREUD MEMORIAL LECTURE BY HAROLD P. BLUM, M.D. In studies on the consequences of trauma, identifications have too often been overlooked. Trauma is experienced as an assault and can lead to an automatic, unconscious identification with...

THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS BY RÓBERT S. WALLERSTEIN, M.D. AND EDWARD M. WEINSHEL, M.D. An invitation to write an article on the future of psychoanalysis evokes a response that is both personal and speculative. Our personal response is derived, for each of us, from almost four decades of the...

PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION: AN ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS BY MICHAEL S. PORDER, M.D. The concept of projective identification as a primitive defense mechanism is reassessed. An alternative hypothesis is offered: that projective identification can best be understood as a compromise formation which...

NOTES ON MASOCHISM: A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPT BY WILLIAM I. GROSSMAN, M.D. The concept of masochism is used in both descriptive and explanatory ways to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena. Although the concept has been thought to refer to a...

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE, EMPATHY, AND THE ANALYTIC IDEÁL: THE IMPACT OF LIFE STRESSES ON ANALYTIC CAPABILITY BY SANDER M. ABEND, M.D. Analysts' emotional attitudes toward countertransference issues are influenced by unduly perfectionistic ideals that are partly dermed from the early period of...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The Editors of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly thought it would be of value to our readers for us to assemble a special issue devoted to object relations theories in clinical practice. The increasing attention that is being devoted to psychoanalytic work largely based on one or...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION In January of this year, Dr. Ernest Kafka brought to the Editors' attention that 1989 is the 50Ü1 anniversary of the first appearance in print of Heinz Hartmann's classic monograph, Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation. He suggested that it would be fitting to mark...