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Perversion—its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults—was a central element of Freud’s lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud’s original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous—often contradictory—perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment. The concept of perversion has also been significant for the disciplines of cultural studies and gender and queer theory, which have explored the creative and dissident powers of ‘perversion’, while expressing a suspicion of its operation as a pathological category. This bi-partite collection offers a series of perspectives on perversion by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists (edited by Dany Nobus), and a selection of papers by scholars who work with, or critique, psychoanalytic theories of perversion (edited by Lisa Downing). It stages a serious dialogue between psychoanalysis and its commentators on the controversial issue of non-normative sexuality.

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical ‘setting’ of the psychoanalytic encounter, with reference to Sigmund Freud, D.W. Winnicott and Andre Green. Building on the innovative writing methods employed in Art and Architecture and Site-Writing, she also addresses the concept of architecture as ‘social condenser’ a Russian constructivist notion that connects material space and community relations. Tracing this idea’s progress from 1920s Moscow to 1950s Britain, Rendell shows how interior and exterior meet in both psychoanalysis and architectural practice. Illuminating a novel field of interdisciplinary enquiry, this book breathes fresh life into notions of social space.”

Dutch Post-war Fiction Film through a Lens of Psychoanalysis is a sequel to Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film (AUP, 2016), but the two studies can be read separately. Because of the sheer variety of Fons Rademakers' oeuvre, which spans 'art' cinema and cult, genre film and historical epics, each chapter will start with one of his titles to introduce a key concept from psychoanalysis. It is an oft-voiced claim that Dutch cinema strongly adheres to realism, but this idea is put into perspective by using psychoanalytic theories on desire and fantasy. In the vein of cinephilia, this study brings together canonical titles (Als twee druppels water; Soldaat van Oranje) and little gems (Monsieur Hawarden; Kracht). It juxtaposes among others Gluckauf and De vliegende Hollander (on father figures); Flanagan and Spoorloos (on rabbles and heroes); De aanslag and Leedvermaak (on historical traumas); and Antonia and Bluebird (on aphanisis).

In this article, we seek to deepen the understanding and reflexive analysis of emotionally charged situations in the research process. Through a nuanced and critically evaluative approach, we explore the complex meanings of empathy as presented in the qualitative methods discourse. We argue that empathy is an overstretched concept that can be more profoundly defined when situationally contextualized. For instance, empathy may refer to solidarity in political aspirations, humanity and compassion in research ethics, or affective resonance in methodological contexts. Focusing on the latter, we examine instances of seemingly \"unsuccessful \"or \"failed\" empathy in two of our projects. Utilizing the framework of \"strong reflexivity\" (KUEHNER, PLODER & LANGER, 2016), we discuss methodological strategies for analyzing and interpreting emotionally challenging research encounters. We argue that situational \"failures\" can yield invaluable insights for critical knowledge production when examined and communicated through a reflexive lens.

Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work. Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan explicitly contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French thinker both because his writing is difficult and because Lacan’s conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American traditions of rhetoric in composition and communication studies. Lacan’s conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in Lacan in Public , upsets and extends the received wisdom of American rhetorical studies—that rhetoric is a science, rather than an art; that rhetoric is predicated not on the reciprocal exchange of meanings, but rather on the impossibility of such an exchange; and that rhetoric never achieves a correspondence with the real-world circumstances it attempts to describe. As Lundberg shows, Lacan’s work speaks directly to conversations at the center of current rhetorical scholarship, including debates regarding the nature of the public and public discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and agency, and the contours of a theory of persuasion.

An oft-neglected element of postcolonial thought is the explicitly psychological dimension of many of its foundational texts. This unprecedented volume explores the relation between these two disciplines by treating the work of a variety of anti-colonial authors as serious psychological contributions to the theorization of racism and oppression. This approach demonstrates the pertinence of postcolonial thought for critical social psychology and opens up novel perspectives on a variety of key topics in social psychology. These include: the psychology of embodiment and racialization resistance strategies to oppression 'extra-discursive' facets of racism the unconscious dimension of stereotypes the intersection of psychological and symbolic modalities of power. In addition, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the field of postcolonial studies by virtue of its eclectic combination of authors drawn from anti-apartheid, psychoanalytic and critical social theory traditions, including Homi Bhabha, Steve Biko, J.M. Coetzee, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, Chabani Manganyi and Slavoj Zizek. The South African focus serves to emphasize the ongoing historical importance of the anti-apartheid struggle for today's globalized world. A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial is an invaluable text for social psychology and sociology students enrolled in courses on racism or cultural studies. It will also appeal to postgraduates, academics and anyone interested in psychoanalysis in relation to societal and political issues.

TRUMP's speech of January 2021, by which he moved his supporters to storm the Capitol, caused wide-spread concern. However, the psychological mechanisms that enabled him to mobilize the audience in the service of his agenda are not sufficiently understood. Employing depth hermeneutics, a psychoanalytic method based on examining the effects of the speech on a group of researchers, I reconstruct TRUMP's address to reveal tensions between its manifest and latent meanings and account for its effects. I argue that his systematic use of falsehoods results in a reversal of the everyday relationship between manifest and latent meaning: In everyday life, socially acceptable wishes and fantasies are given voice and reprehensible ones are relegated to a latent level. TRUMP, conversely, relies on falsehoods to fire up his supporters by evoking socially objectionable concepts of life and to make fact- and reason-based objections to his claims unconscious. The fears and aggression fueled by the dramatization of the current political situation affect particularly, though not exclusively, those listeners who, due to traumas experienced in childhood, are susceptible to TRUMP's coping strategy of authoritarian conformity.

Objectives: In different therapeutic approaches, insight is acknowledged as an important part of patient's therapeutic change process. We examined whether the level of insight (1) differs between psychoanalytic (PA), psychodynamic (PD) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and (2) predicts long-term symptomatic outcome. Methods: A completer sample of 67 depressed patients from the Munich Psychotherapy Study was analyzed. Symptoms were assessed with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Symptom Checklist-Revised (SCL-90-R) at pre-treatment and three-year follow-up. Insight was assessed from 242 sessions of mid-therapy phase with the Experiencing Scale. Results: The general level of insight was higher in PA as compared to CBT, and associated with lower depressive symptoms (BDI) across all three therapeutic modalities at three-year follow-up. Insight was unrelated to general distress (SCL-90-R). Exploratory analyses suggested that patients treated with PA showed higher levels of insight especially in high quality sessions (assessed by therapist). Patients for whom the extent of insight was positively linked to session quality, suffered from more depressive symptoms at three-year follow-up than patients gaining insight when session quality was low. Conclusion: Insight differs between PA and CBT and may be a common change mechanism in long-term psychotherapies.Objectives: In different therapeutic approaches, insight is acknowledged as an important part of patient's therapeutic change process. We examined whether the level of insight (1) differs between psychoanalytic (PA), psychodynamic (PD) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and (2) predicts long-term symptomatic outcome. Methods: A completer sample of 67 depressed patients from the Munich Psychotherapy Study was analyzed. Symptoms were assessed with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Symptom Checklist-Revised (SCL-90-R) at pre-treatment and three-year follow-up. Insight was assessed from 242 sessions of mid-therapy phase with the Experiencing Scale. Results: The general level of insight was higher in PA as compared to CBT, and associated with lower depressive symptoms (BDI) across all three therapeutic modalities at three-year follow-up. Insight was unrelated to general distress (SCL-90-R). Exploratory analyses suggested that patients treated with PA showed higher levels of insight especially in high quality sessions (assessed by therapist). Patients for whom the extent of insight was positively linked to session quality, suffered from more depressive symptoms at three-year follow-up than patients gaining insight when session quality was low. Conclusion: Insight differs between PA and CBT and may be a common change mechanism in long-term psychotherapies.

Zusammenfassung Psychotherapieforschung beschäftigt sich unter anderem damit, ob zwischen verschiedenen Psychotherapieverfahren differenziert werden kann. In der Geschichte der Psychoanalyse wurden Unterschiede zwischen analytischer und tiefenpsychologisch-fundierter Psychotherapie oft diskutiert, aber nur selten empirisch untersucht. In der vorliegenden Studie wird ein Set an Items vorgeschlagen, welches theoretisch auf Stundenebene zwischen den beiden Therapieansätzen unterscheiden sollte. Diese Items werden anhand von Angaben von Therapeut:innen zu ihrem therapeutischen Vorgehen in N = 295 Fällen verschiedener tiefenpsychologischfundierter und analytischer Therapien inspiziert. Die Ergebnisse einer Faktorenanalyse und eines hiernach durchgeführten Vergleichs der analytischen und tiefenpsychologischen Items in verschiedenen Therapieverfahren sprechen für die Verwendbarkeit der entwickelten Items. In Zukunft sind jedoch andere Bewertungsmethoden (v. a. Fremdbeurteilungen durch Rater:innen) unumgänglich. Die präsentierten Items sind ein vielversprechender Schritt auf dem Weg zu einem Ratinginstrument zur Behandlungsdifferenzierung, welches in Psychotherapiestudien verwendet werden könnte. Abstract Therapy differentiation is a crucial component of psychotherapy research. It refers to whether inspected treatments differ from one another. In the history of psychoanalysis, the differentiation between psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapy was often discussed but seldom inspected empirically. In this study, we propose a set of items which should in theory offer the possibility to differentiate between psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapy on session level. We inspect these items using therapists’ self-reports concerning N = 295 cases of different psychodynamic and analytic therapies. Results of an exploratory factor analysis and subsequent inspections of the psychodynamic and analytic items in different forms of therapies strengthen the usability of these items for differentiating between psychodynamic and analytic therapy. However, further studies using different perspectives (e. g., observer ratings) are essential. The presented items are a promising step towards the development of an instrument for treatment differentiation which could later be used in treatment comparison studies.

This monograph focuses on a systematic approach to dream interpretation and the unique importance of the initial dream. The first dream reported in a psychoanalytic therapy session poignantly encapsulates the major issues that the patient brings to the treatment. These dreams ‘herald’ the trajectory of the treatment and can be interpreted in the service of psychodynamic diagnosis and prognosis.