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These are essays and critiques on psychological and therapeutic issues. Hopefully they can be read by anyone, but the first set should have the broadest appeal. Here is the idea behind all this: The widespread
disillusionment with psychoanalysis has led therapists to give up on analyzing,
and to take the view that what you think and feel is arbitrary. It’s like
giving up on reality. You are supposed to be able to think and feel what ever
you choose, as long as you try hard enough. This is not altogether wrong, but
it is an inspirational therapy, which, like being Born Again, can be
powerful, but should be recognized as such. I have called this “Ego Analysis.” For quick snapshot check the beginning of “Vignettes,” below. Can also be thought of as “Analytic Cognitive Therapy” (see below “A Deeper Cognitive Therapy”). BERNARD
APFELBAUM, Ph.D. |
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Basic
Vignettes (Ego Analysis for
Smarties)
On Entitlement to
Feelings
The Shame-Blame Reflex
What Creates Negative Self-Talk
Key
Ideas
The Focus of Ego
Analysis
How to be an Instant Ego Analyst
Dan Wile on Becoming a Spokesperson
One Sided
Intimacy: The Sex Therapy of David Schnarch
Psychoanalysis
Interpretive Neutrality
Analyzing, not Psychoanalyzing
A
Key to Where the Bodies are Buried in Psychoanalysis. .
A Look
at Other Therapies
Ego Analysis, A Formal Introduction
Ego Analysis as a Deeper Cognitive
Therapy
Ego Analysis vs. Id Analysis in a Brief
Therapy Case
Ego Analysis vs. Self Psychology
The Two Analyses of Mr. Z,
Plus Two
Some
Theoretical Issues
How Id Analysis is Still With Us
Depth Interpretations Vs. Ego Interpretations
Conceptual Bio
Debate Between Kohut and Kernberg
A Skeleton Key to Drive Theory vs.Object
Relations Theories
Applying
This View
Feeling Entitled to Your Experience. An Illustration
Patients as Informants About the Human Condition
On Secondary Journal Dysfunction
"No One Can Make You Have a Feeling"
A Murder Mystery [click takes you to pdf, then
go to pp. 56-62]
On Sex
Professional Sex Films & Videos vs. Sexual Reality
On Performance-Anxiety Anxiety
If He's So Turned On, Why Aren't I?
Sexual Reality and How We Dismiss it
Unsolved Mysteries of Sexual Response
On Being Misquoted by Salon.com