Psychoanalytic Views of Mental Health from An und für sich by Jeremy
Recently
Nancy McWilliams, a prominent American analyst, presented at my graduate
program. Here’s her list of mental health. Let me know what you think.
Signs
of Mental Health based on McWilliams’ Presentation at GWU (March 2012):
1) Capacity to Love (Freud)
2) Capacity to Work (Freud)
3) Capacity to Play (Winnicott)
4) Secure Attachment (Bowlby)
5) Sense of Agency/Autonomy (Erikson)
6) Self Constancy/Identity Integration (Stern)
7) Object Constancy (Stern)
8) Ego Strengths (Westen/Shedler)
9) Realistic/Reliable Self-esteem (Kohut)
10) Sense of Values (Superego) (Cleckley)
11) Affect/Thought Tolerance/Frustration (Tomkins)
12) Insight (Reality Testing) (Fenichel)
13) Mentalization (Reflective Functioning) (Fonagy)
14) Good Coping Strategies/Defensive Flexibility (A Freud)
15) Balance between Self-Definition & Self-in-Relationships (Balint)
16) Passion/Vitality/Purpose (Winnicott)
17) Acceptance & Capacity to Mourn/Suffer (Klein)
1) Capacity to Love (Freud)
2) Capacity to Work (Freud)
3) Capacity to Play (Winnicott)
4) Secure Attachment (Bowlby)
5) Sense of Agency/Autonomy (Erikson)
6) Self Constancy/Identity Integration (Stern)
7) Object Constancy (Stern)
8) Ego Strengths (Westen/Shedler)
9) Realistic/Reliable Self-esteem (Kohut)
10) Sense of Values (Superego) (Cleckley)
11) Affect/Thought Tolerance/Frustration (Tomkins)
12) Insight (Reality Testing) (Fenichel)
13) Mentalization (Reflective Functioning) (Fonagy)
14) Good Coping Strategies/Defensive Flexibility (A Freud)
15) Balance between Self-Definition & Self-in-Relationships (Balint)
16) Passion/Vitality/Purpose (Winnicott)
17) Acceptance & Capacity to Mourn/Suffer (Klein)
Notice,
the absence of sex and aggression!
Sex and the godman:
Nityananda haunted by his past by Venky Vembu Firstpost
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Yet,
the karmic deeds of a past when kundalini forces—and the
hormonal urges to which all men are susceptible—played havoc with a spiritual
practice aren’t proving so easy to bury.
Should women dress modestly? Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo ... 14 Oct 2011 by Sandeep
In
everyday life, people frequently
engage in pseudo-interactions with women (e.g., through the phone or the
internet) or anticipate interacting with a woman later on. The goal of the
present research was to investigate if men's ...
Empirical Evidence, Sexual Harassment, and the Economic Way of
Thinking from Marginal Revolution by Alex Tabarrok
What
the theory and the empirical results are saying is that people exposed to a
higher risk of sexual harassment are paid more, just as people
exposed to a higher risk of death are paid more… Nevertheless, the principle here is clear,
the way to think about these issues is not to throw out economic reasoning but
to apply the reasoning ever more deeply.
Lacan, Anarchy, Masculinity, and Psychosis from Larval Subjects (Levi Bryant)
I
argued in The Democracy of Objects that it’s actually the
masculine side of the graph of sexuation that’s semblance, masquerade, and
fiction
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