Editorial
István Tiringer
ARTICLES
Overview
Katalin Szakács, Emma C. Molnár, István Ormay: Shared ideas in the approach of active-analytical tradition and current psychotherapeutic theories
Methodological study
Gábor Flaskay: From interpretation to therapeutic relationship
How does psychoanalytic therapy work? Part I.
Questions of practice
Stuart W. Twemlow: The roots of violence: converging psychoanalytic explanatory models for power struggles and violence in schools Part I. (translated by Csaba Horgász)
Essay study
József Krékits: Beyond Freudian thought, or suspicion in culture Part II.
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Discussion
On leading groups individually or in co-therapy III. — Éva Hosszú
Team presentation
The “Faludi street” — Judit Böhm, Gábor Radnai
News and reports
In memoriam Ferenc Mérei — Emőke Bagdy
Publishers’ lists — Animula • Lélekben Otthon • Medicina
Conferences — Cecilia Bánki • Eszter Blaskovics • Edina Fecskó • Valéria Rácz – Ildikó Nagy • Zsiborásné Szilvia Ungi
Preliminary to the 4th Conference of the Psychotherapy Journal — Gábor Szőnyi
Book reviews — Zsuzsanna Kerekes • Krisztina Kocsis-Bogár • Edit Molnár • Mária Palaczky • Mária Simon • Eidt Virág
Professional programs
Abstracts
Overview
Katalin Szakács, Emma C. Molnár, István Ormay: Shared ideas in the approach of active-analytical tradition and current psychotherapeutic theories
The aim of our work is to compare the tradition of active-analysis with some psychoanalytical (and other) theories of the last decades especially from the point of view of the practice of psychotherapy. We found similar thoughts in Sullivan’s work and in the interpersonal mode of psychoanalysis. One of their basic ideas – to emphasize the interpersonal experience instead of the intra-psychic world and phantasy – turned up early in active-analysis. In our mind the examination of personal effectiveness connects Schafer with active-analysis. We think that the results of developmental psychology, especially its emphasis on the importance of learning and teaching, and its thought that the main organizing power of the personality is experience, seem to verify the early ideas of active-analysis. In our work we make an attempt to formulate the way to interpret the activity of therapy in active analysis. Our guiding principle is to examine what purpose means in active-analysis, the way it appears in today’s research and the way we try to use these results in our therapeutic activity. Our message is illustrated with some case details. Finally we try to place active-analysis among analytical therapies from the point of view of support and expression.
Methodological study
Gábor Flaskay: From interpretation to therapeutic relationship
How does psychoanalytic therapy work? Part I.
The therapy concept of psychoanalysis has undergone continuous changes. Primarily theoretical developments induce changes in techniques, but also the enrichment of the technical repertoir exerts its influence on theory. Many elements of psychotherapy that had not been specific earlier have become specific. The study attempts to review the most important factors that different psychoanalytic approaches believe to be in the background of therapeutic changes. The author also points out the major technical devices used for achieving change in the therapeutic process. The author considers the transformation in the approaches to therapeutic change as being evolutionary in nature, even if those changes have sometimes been radical.
Questions of practice
Stuart W. Twemlow: The roots of violence: converging psychoanalytic explanatory models for power struggles and violence in schools Part I. (translated by Csaba Horgász)
This paper demonstrates that several psychoanalytic models taken together converge to collectively explain school violence and power struggles better than each does alone. Using my own experience in doing psychoanalytically informed community intervention, I approach the problem of school violence from a combination of Adlerian, Stollerian, dialectical social systems, and Klein—Bion perspectives. This integrated model is then applied to the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado.
Essay study
József Krékits: Beyond Freudian thought, or suspicion in culture Part II.
In my essay I am observing one of Freud’s summary work, the „Civilization and Its Discontents”, which also has subjective elements, regarding the author’s ‘discontent’, and searching for its sources then and there.
I am trying to find the borderline, the meta-position, where Freud launches his observations from and gets to the laying down of the foundations of psychoanalysis. The work of many thousand-pages comes from the minority ground of double-identity, in the atmosphere of growing anti-Semitism. His work is also an answer to the challenge, naturally, not avoiding the pitfalls. As it was written in the forecast of holocaust, I have to deal with the greatest scandal of the 20th century, how, by using Freud’s basic concepts and partly stepping over them, it may be explained. To be able to answer the challenges of our times we should try to face and work on the past, the Freudian spirit, in the interrelation of history, culture and the individual.