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Closeness In The Psychoanalytical Encounter

European Psychoanalytical Federation   Happiness… is a problem of the economics of the individual’s libido. (Freud: Civilization and its Discontents) I am deeply moved and honoured to be representing my country at the meeting of the European Psycho-Analytical Federation. I hope

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WHY ARE WE SO ATTRACTED TO THE FAMILIAR BUT RESIST STRANGENESS?

Anything identified as unfamiliar is classified as non-self, not-me or strange. Freud (1905b) stressed that recognition of the familiar arouses pleasure. “Minor differences” (Freud, 1930, p. 114) may arouse feelings of strangeness and even anger, while “greater differences should lead

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The Role of Healthy Narcissism in Relating Emotionally to Familiarity and the Unknown

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WHY ARE WE SO ATTRACTED TO THE FAMILIAR BUT RESIST STRANGENESS?

    WHY ARE WE SO ATTRACTED TO THE FAMILIAR BUT RESIST STRANGENESS? Article by: Ronnie Solan As a psychoanalyst I am amazed by the enormous impact of the attraction to the familiar, the resisting of strangeness, and the tendency to

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How to understand our Child’s Constipation?

ISSN: 2474-7688    PBSIJ.MS.ID.555626 PBSIJ Home How to understand our Child’s Constipation? Ronnie Solan* Submission: April 28, 2017; Published: May 08, 2017 *Corresponding author: Ronnie Solan, Psychoanalyst, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Tel: +972 3-642-5754; Email: ronnie.solan@gmail.com How to cite this article: Ronnie S.

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Why is it so Difficult to Maintain Loving Relationships?

Psychology and Behavioral Science International Journal ISSN 2474-7688 Perspective Volume 1 Issue 4 – November 2016 DOI: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2016.01.555570 Psychol Behav Sci Int J Copyright © All rights are reserved by Ronnie Solan Why is it so Difficult to Maintain Loving

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