Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches…

“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“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

“Winnicott’s understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud’s. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from adult experience.…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Natanijel Brendan nas upoznaje s pričom o dr. Odri Ričards, antropologu koja je tridesetih godina XX veka radila s plemenom Bemba iz Severne Rodezije.…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending against a…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“In Freud’s account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal ambitions, but…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“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

“This fear manifested in Harvey’s self-protective vigilance with the analyst, his continually orchestrating the analytic experience rather than allowing himself to rely on the…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“the task is “to get the subject to shift from a psychic reality to a true reality” (1988b,”

— Stephen A. Mitchell