Is the mind of the psychopath so distinctive? Evidence from Adult Attachment Interviews in a Prison Setting. New paper from Peter Hobson, Mary Main et al:

Tempted to feel that many denizens of a political culture in which people are apoplectic about pedophiliac assaults that never happened but indulgent of those that did…could use a spot of psychoanalysis

7 free eprints left of my new article on language games and addiction in analytic dialogue. Or DM me and I’ll hook you up. (As it were.)

4. These distortions of subjectivity are commonly accompanied by intense psychic pain that is hard for those not sharing the patient's experience to fully appreciate.

3. In these states of mind, experiences are either too real or meaningless, and the patient's understanding of motives is solely in terms of the physical world—i.e., things have to happen or be done to be meaningful. (+)

2. Loss of mentalizing leads to prementalistic modes of functioning—psychic equivalence (concrete), pretend mode (dissociated), and teleological (action and outcomes oriented) mode of subjective experience. (+)

Mentalizing issues in BPD: 1. As a result of hypersensitivity of the attachment process, patients with BPD are vulnerable to losses of mentalizing in the context of attachment relationships. (+)

🧵As per Bateman & Fonagy, BPD treatment should focus on: --stabilizing self. --sustaining mentalizing in therapy. --and managing arousal in interactions. (+)

Mentalization and Borderline Personality Disorder--an overview, by Bateman & Fonagy.

"Following these findings, it has been discussed whether the change in manifest dreams could be regarded as a genuine psychoanalytic outcome criterion, somewhat in contrast to symptom reduction."--Fischmann & Leuzinger-Bohleber, 2025.

https://t.co/pDCwxKDBey "Changes in manifest dream during successful psychoanalyses ▶️ reduction of nightmares, widening of the affective spectrum, ⬆️ successful problem-solving, ⬇️ observer dreams and ⬆️ mature object relations." OPEN ACCESS:

🧵"Freud’s famous, “Remembering, repeating and working through” is still at the center of psychoanalytic treatment. We posit that changes in the manifest dream content of psyA treatment depends on successful working through of newly understood memories of traumatic experiences."

Professor Mark Solms on the narcissistic forms of the 7 emotional drives:

Here is the full video of @Mark_Solms talk on "Different Types of Narcissism: A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective." Enjoy Responsibly.

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‘As long as the patient is in the treatment he cannot escape from this compulsion to repeat; and in the end we understand that this is his way of remembering’—Freud (1914, p. 150).

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"The history of science ... is replete with instances in which an initially liberating conceptualization, once institutionalized, becomes a barrier to progress." (L. Eisenberg, 1962)

"I have never spent years in an institution, like, Firestone did, but I have been inside a dozen times, for days, or weeks; voluntarily and by 72-hour hold." Interesting piece in @the_point_mag by Emmett Rensin.