VAGINAL PELVIC HOLDING SYNDROME: A MATERNAL RELATIONAL CONTEXTUALIZATION 

Susan Winfield (2022)
A qualitative study examining how females contract and hold their vaginal and pelvic floor muscles as an adaptive response to suppress their emotions and defend against the tension and hurt due to their caregivers’ maternal failures.

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LIVED EXPERIENCE OF YOUNG ADULTS WHO OVERCAME DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENCE

Leigh Nickoll (2022)
A phenomenological research study exploring the lived experiences of young adults who overcame a depressive episode in adolescence. 

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THE CULTURAL SELF-CONCEPT IN LATINO/A ADOLESCENTS DEALING WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS 

Daisy Perez (2022)
A qualitative study on the impact of Latino/a culture on the development of the self-concept in Latino/a adolescents suffering from anxiety and depression in the United States.

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CAN YOU SEE ME NOW? TEENAGE SELF-HARM: INSTINCT, IMPULSIVITY, AND INTENT

Ida Spencer (2022)
A phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of six adolescents who engaged in self-harming behaviors. 

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The Impact of Shame on Thinking: Attacks on Linking

Lynn London (2022)
A hermeneutic study of the development of chronic shame and the capacity to think in the infant's first year of life.  

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Navigating the Therapeutic Alliance with Adolescents and Their Caregivers 

Elizabeth 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. 

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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.

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Psychoanalysts' Lived Experience of Deciding to Offer a Patient the Couch: A Phenomenological Study 

Ann Horton (2021) 
An examination of the lived experiences of six psychoanalysts who considered offering their patients the couch as part of treatment. 

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The Absence of Blackness in Psychoanalysis: Supporting Identity Development of Black Children within Psychodynamic Psychotherapy 

Danielle 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. 

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The Maternal Contribution to the Prenate’s Ego Formation 

Erica Stephenson (2021)
A phenomenological hermeneutic study that examines the possibility of primitive proto-ego development in the prenate and potential maternal contributions to this formation in utero. 

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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.