Navigating the Therapeutic Alliance with Adolescents and Their CaregiversElizabeth Hobson (2021)
Addresses the challenge for psychotherapists to build and maintain a therapeutic alliance with adolescent clients and develop a supportive relationship with their caregivers, while considering the underlying attachment histories in the family. |
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Transvestic Disorder, Attachment, and Affect Regulation
Kimberly Dittu (2021)
Employs modern attachment theory to provide a framework for reanalyzing the original psychoanalytic constructs of transvestism by looking at affect regulation as a motivational factor in cross-dressing behavior. |
The Absence of Blackness in Psychoanalysis: Supporting Identity Development of Black Children within Psychodynamic PsychotherapyDanielle Scipio (2021)
Addresses the absence of Blackness and awareness of intergenerational trauma in psychoanalytic theory and treatment to better understand how to support identity development of Black children and adolescents within psychodynamic psychotherapy. |
The Theoretical Bridge of Chodorow’s Fluidity of Ego Boundaries between Mothers and Daughters Leading to the Winnicottian False Self
Michelle Charness (2021)
A phenomenological hermeneutic study of the fluidity of ego boundaries between mothers and daughters, and how merged ego boundaries may perpetuate the development of a compromised sense of self in female infants and children. |