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Ego Analytic Psychotherapy

Essays by Bernard Apfelbaum, Ph.D.

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The “Berkeley Barb” Interview

[Editor’s note: the following is an interview with Bernard Apfelbaum written by Connie Cox and first published in the Berkeley Barb…

Berkeley Barb, blame, Interview, Psychoanalysis, sex

Sexual Reality and How We Dismiss It

THE BIOLOGICAL-ROMANTIC MYSTIQUE In the play Harvey, Elwood P. Dowd declares that he struggled with reality all his life and…

actual neurosis, adequacy, authenticity, biological mystique, Freud, Intimacy, performance, repression, ritual, romance, sex, sex-positive, sexual reality, sexuality

Unsolved Mysteries of Sexual Response

One of the unfortunate carryovers from the classical model has been a glibness about symptoms, a rush to judgment, as…

erectile dysfunction, Id Analysis, orgasm, premature ejaculation, retarded ejaculation, sex, sexuality

Ego Analysis as a Deeper Form of Cognitive Therapy

What the standard cognitive therapist (CT) does is to be an attorney in this case you are bringing against yourself.…

CBT, Cognitive Therapy, Ego Analysis, feelings, internal intimacy, negative self-talk, self-talk

Patients as Informants About the Human Condition, rather than as Deviants from Idealized Norms

We typically think of patients and ourselves as deviants from vague and idealized mental health norms, although we all are…

Borderline Personality Disorder, Commitment, Informant, Intimacy, Multiple Personality Disorder, Therapy

If He’s So Turned On, Why Aren’t I?

This witty and highly articulate account is a remarkably thorough presentation of structural psychoanalysis, maybe the best introduction we have.…

bodywork, bodywork therapy, countertransference, sex therapy, sexuality, transference

On Performance-Anxiety Anxiety

The ego-analytic model is the how-you-handle-it model. The idea is that sex problems (and other problems as well) are caused,…

bodywork, bodywork therapy, Ego Analysis, erectile dysfunction, impotence, performance-anxiety, sex, sexuality

The Case of Tony Soprano and Dr. Melfi

or, Locating the Missing Ego in Psychodynamic Therapy A terrific example of the prevailing model of psychodynamic therapy is Glen O.…

Ego Analysis, Freud, Id Analysis, Sopranos

On the Capacity to Feel Unempathic

(with endnotes on “forgiveness”, the implicit assumption that anger is a poisonous emotion, and the shame-rage spiral) I had lunch with…

acceptance, Ego Analysis, empathy, forgiveness, Narcissism, self-empathy, Self-hate

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