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KEY WORDS: Helene Deutsch; "as if"; conformism; politician. Political psychology makes a fertile field for those political theorists who understand their work as preeminently conceptual: thinking about how we think. One of the merits of psychological thought is that it provides a framework for addressing both empirical as well as ethical ...
Sep 21, 2022 · This commentary is an explication of the concept of the ‘as if’ personality as furthered by Hester Solomon, Jungian analyst. It derived from the original reference by psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch in the 1940’s. The concept is expanded with the theory of French psychoanalyst André Green.
The "as-if" personality. On women. On pregnancy. Freud and beyond. On technique. 1950 to death. Works. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. Helene Deutsch ( née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute.
She became known for her studies of the “as if” personality, a precursor of later interest in borderline personalities, described in Some Forms of Emotional Disturbances and their Relation to Schizophrenia (1942); the patients in question give an impression of “complete normality,” but true warmth and inner feeling are missing, although outwardl...
Deutsch, H. Some forms of emotional disturbances and their relationship to schizophrenia (1934). Neuroses and Character Types. , New York: International Universities Press, 1965, pp. 262–281.
ABSTRACT Sabina Spielrein, Helene Deutsch and Karen Horney, pioneer women in psychoanalytical movement, made original contributions to psychoanalysis as a subjective and intersubjective field. Their …
Helene Deutsch's psychoanalytic concept of "as if" described the false affectivity of chameleon-like conduct.… Expand. 3. The Role of Imitative Social Learning in Identificatory Processes. W. Meissner. Psychology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic… 1974. TLDR.
