“Nature and nurture are now generally regarded less as distinct, separable causes and more as interactive, mutually created sets of processes.” — Stephen A. Mitchell Nature Copy Share Image
“people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because” — Stephen A. Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It” — Stephen A. Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.” — Stephen A. Mitchell Psychology Copy Share Image
“the task is “to get the subject to shift from a psychic reality to a true reality” (1988b,” — Stephen A. Mitchell True reality Copy Share Image
“Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys” — Stephen A. Mitchell Genitalia Copy Share Image
“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often… — Stephen A. Mitchell Parenting Copy Share Image
“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from… — Stephen A. Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active… — Stephen A. Mitchell Abuser Copy Share Image
“Symbolic representation makes it possible for instinctual impulses to find disguised, socially acceptable forms of gratification, not as satisfying as direct physical… — Stephen A. Mitchell Gratification Copy Share Image
“This fear manifested in Harvey’s self-protective vigilance with the analyst, his continually orchestrating the analytic experience rather than allowing himself to rely… — Stephen A. Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“For Klein, reproduction offered proof that something could survive and grow internally despite destructive feelings; pregnancy reflected the viability and goodness of… — Stephen A. Mitchell Reproduction Copy Share Image
“It is too disturbing for the patient to feel sexually attracted to his mother; in a last-ditch effort, the resistance disguises the… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In Freud’s account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal… — Stephen A. Mitchell Motivation Copy Share Image
“The first desire for each of us is the longing to be the phallus for the mother. Phallus here refers not to… — Stephen A. Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“Natanijel Brendan nas upoznaje s pričom o dr. Odri Ričards, antropologu koja je tridesetih godina XX veka radila s plemenom Bemba iz… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Winnicott’s understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud’s. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction… — Stephen A. Mitchell Learning Copy Share Image
“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In Lacan’s view, it is not just dreams but conscious subjective experience in general that is organized into distracting little stories, and… — Stephen A. Mitchell Dream Copy Share Image
“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending… — Stephen A. Mitchell Parenting Copy Share Image
“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The renunciation of the child’s sexual ambitions and dyadic unity with the mother is established through the father’s presence, which stands for… — Stephen A. Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
