IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

Back to Table of Contents

Such epistemological and methodological issues and controversies have a wide applicability, across psychoanalytic regions, theoretical orientations and research areas. In various ways, they are applicable to Infant ‘Strange Situation’ research studies of Attachment by Mary Ainsworth et al. (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters and Wall, 1978); Beatrice Beebe’s Theory of Interaction (Beebe 2000), drawing on Bateson’s (1972) Ecological models, constructing a method of close video-monitoring of mother-infant and therapist dyads/triads; Neuropsychoanalytic studies (Balbernie, 2001; Shevrin et al. 2013); Otto Kernberg’s (2015) study on Neurological Correlates of Object Relations Theory; Leo Rangell’s (1971) Unconscious Decision Making Function, synthesizing Information Processing theories and psychoanalytic studies of the Unconscious Ego functioning; Matte Blanco’s (1959) conceptualizations of ‘Unconscious Logic’ and ‘Bi-Logic’, combining mathematical logic theorems to enrich Freud’s formulations of the Unconscious and Primary process, and many others. In another broad sense, the Liberman’s Theory of Communication and its current evolution also inspires and reflects the contemporary trend within psychoanalysis towards the inter-subjective and inter-psychic ‘unconsciously communicative’ perspective, in addition to the intrapsychic one. It was already the ambition and intension of the founder of psychoanalysis to demystify the human psyche and put the in-depth understanding of its unconscious workings on a scientific basis. The Theory of Communication of David Lieberman is an original, vital and widely applicable contribution in such continuous quest.

REFERENCES

Abraham, K. (1924). A Short Study of the Development of the Libido Viewed in Light of Mental Disorders. In: Selected Papers of Kar Abraham, M.D. (pp.407-417). London: Hogarth Press (1927). Ainsworth, M., Blehar, M., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Arbiser, S. (1994). The Man with the Bus Symptom. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. , 75:729-742. Arbiser, S. (2001). David Liberman. Capítulo del libro Grandes Psicoanalistas Argentinos, Compilador: Roberto Doria Medina Eguía, Editorial Lumen, 2001. Buenos Aires Arbiser, S. (2008). El legado de David Liberman. Psicoanálisis, Apdeba, Vol. XXX, nro. 1, Buenos Aires. Arbiser, S. (2013). David Liberman 1920-1983. Actualidad Psicológica. Noviembre 2013. Buenos Aires. Arbiser, S. (2014). David Liberman’s legacy. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Volume 95, August, 2014 .

845

Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online