Paths in psychoanalysis: John E. Gedo

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Paolo Migone
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/3 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 405-416 File size 152 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2019-003002
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

The cultural profile and theoretical contributions of John E. Gedo (1927-2019) are briefly out-lined. John E. Gedo, who died this year, was a Chicago psychoanalyst of Hungarian origins who was very close to Heinz Kohut during the years in which he was building the theoretical edifice of self psychology, to which he gave important inputs. Gedo eventually interrupted his collaboration with Kohut and proposed a more ambitious model, a "hierarchical schema" of five modes of psy-chological functioning, each one of them characterized by a specific regulation principle, defense, problem or danger, and therapeutic intervention. He presented this proposal in many articles and books, particularly in his book Beyond Interpretation: Towards a Revised Theory for Psychoa-nalysis (New York: International Universities Press, 1979). Gedo had also a rich and typically European humanistic culture, and was especially interested in arts, a subject to which he dedicated several books and the last years of his life. Gedo’s contributions are presented also through a long quotation of the essay by Paolo Migone "Monografia: John E. Gedo" [A monography on John E. Gedo], published in Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 1985, 19 (4): 89-102.

Keywords: John E. Gedo; Heinz Kohut; Self psychology; Theory of psychoanalytic technique; Hierarchical schema of modes of psychological functioning

  1. Eissler K.R. (1953). The effect of the structure of the ego on psychoanalytic technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1, 1: 104-143 (trad. it.: Effetto della struttura dell’Io sulla tecnica psicoanalitica. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 1981, XV, 2: 50-79; anche in: Genovese C., a cura di, Setting e processo psicoanalitico. Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 1988, pp. 3-35. -- Edizione su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm/modther/probpsiter/eiss53-1.htm).
  2. Erikson E.H. (1959). Identity and the Life Cycle (Psychological Issues, 1). New York: International Universities Press (trad. it.: I cicli della vita. Continuità e mutamenti. Roma: Armando, 1984).
  3. Gedo J.E. (1979). Beyond Interpretation: Towards a Revised Theory for Psychoanalysis. New York: International Universities Press (trad. it.: Al di là dell’interpretazione. Una nuova teoria della tecnica psicoanalitica. Roma: Astrolabio, 1986). Revised edition: Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1993.
  4. Gedo J.E. (1983). Portraits of the Artist. Psychoanalysis of Creativity and Its Vicissitudes. New York: Guilford.
  5. Gedo J.E. & Goldberg A. (1973). Models of the Mind. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (trad. it.: Modelli della mente. Roma: Astrolabio, 1975).
  6. Gill M.M. (1981). The boundaries of psychoanalytic data and technique: A critique of Gedo’s “Beyond Interpretation”. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 1, 2: 205-231. DOI: 10.1080/07351698109533399
  7. Grand C. & Hill D., issue editors (1994). The clinical uses of multiple models: Possibilities and dangers in the approaches of Fred Pine and John Gedo. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 14, 2 (Fred Pine: pp. 152-234 [D. Hill, C. Hanly, D.M. Kaplan, A. Modell, F. Pine]; John E. Gedo: pp. 235-312 [T.C. Rodgers, A.D. Druck, G. Moraitis, E. Shane & M. Shane, J.E. Gedo]).
  8. Green A., Kernberg O.F. & Migone P. (2008). Un dialogo sulla differenza tra psicoanalisi e psicoterapia psicoanalitica. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2009, XLIII, 2: 215-234.
  9. Hartmann H. (1937). Ich-Psychologie und Anpassungsproblem. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, 1939, 24: 62-135 (trad. inglese: Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation. New York: International Universities Press, 1958; trad. it.: Psicologia dell’Io e problema dell’adattamento. Torino: Boringhieri, 1966).
  10. Migone P. (1985). Monografia: John E. Gedo. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, XIX, 4: 89-102.
  11. Migone P. (1995). Terapia psicoanalitica. Milano: FrancoAngeli (Nuova edizione: 2010).
  12. Migone P. (1991). La differenza tra psicoanalisi e psicoterapia: panorama storico del dibattito e recente posizione di Merton M. Gill. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, XXV, 4: 35-65. Anche in: Terapia psicoanalitica. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 1995, cap. 4 (Nuova edizione: 2010).
  13. Migone P. (2004). Sulle “quattro psicologie” di Fred Pine. Il Ruolo Terapeutico, 95: 87-92. -- Edizione su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm/modther/probpsiter/ruoloter/rt95-04.htm. Dibattito su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm-lists/debates/dibinteg.htm.
  14. Migone P. (2007). Psicologia del Sé. In: Barale F., Bertani M., Gallese V., Mistura S. & Zamperini A., a cura di, Psiche. Dizionario storico di psicologia, psichiatria, psicoanalisi, neuroscienze. Torino: Einaudi, 2007, Vol. 2 (L-Z), pp. 874-878.
  15. Alexander F. (1946). La esperienza emozionale correttiva. Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 1993, XXVII, 2: 85-101 (trad. it. dei capitoli 2, 4 e 17 del libro di Alexander F., French T.M. et al., Psychoanalytic Therapy: Principles and Applications. New York: Ronald Press, 1946. -- Edizione su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm/modther/probpsiter/alexan-1.htm).
  16. Migone P. (2012). Il problema della molteplicità dei modelli in psicoterapia (Relazione al V Congresso della Federazione Italiana delle Associazioni di Psicoterapia [FIAP], Sapienza Università di Roma, 9-10 novembre 2012). Grounding, 2013, 1: 37-61. -- Una edizione su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm/modther/probpsiter/ruoloter/rt124-13.htm.
  17. Migone P. (2015). Heinz Kohut e la Psicologia del Sé. Il Ruolo Terapeutico, 129: 59-68. -- Edizione su Internet: www.psychomedia.it/pm/modther/probpsiter/ruoloter/rt129-15.htm.
  18. Modell A.H. (1976). “The holding environment” and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 54, 2: 285-307. DOI: 10.1177/000306517602400202
  19. Pine F. (1988). The four psychologies of psychoanalysis and their place in clinical work. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 36, 3: 571-596.
  20. Pine F. (1990). Drive, Ego, Object, and Self. A Synthesis for Clinical Work. New York: Basic Books.
  21. Rapaport D. (1959). The Structure of Psychoanalytic Theory: A Systematizing Attempt. In: Koch S., editor, Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study 1: Conceptual and Systematic. Vol. 3: Formulations of the Person and the Social Context. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959, pp. 55-183. Anche in: Psychological Issues, 6. New York: International Universities Press, 1960 (trad. it.: Struttura della teoria psicoanalitica. Un tentativo di sistematizzazione. Presentazione di Pier Francesco Galli [pp. 9-12; anche in: Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2007, XLI, 2: 231-233]. Torino: Boringhieri, 1969).
  22. Silver D., issue editor (1981). Commentaries on John Gedo’s Beyond Interpretation (contributi di A. Appelbaum, P.A. Dewald, M.M. Gill, W.W. Meissner, L. Rangell, H. Segal & R. Britton, M.S. Gunther, J.E. Gedo). Psychoanalytic Inquiry, I, 2.
  23. Strozier C.S. (2001). Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (trad. it.: Heinz Kohut: biografia di uno psicoanalista. Roma: Astrolabio, 2005).
  24. Winnicott D.W. (1960). The theory of parent-infant relationship. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41, 4: 585-595 (trad. it.: La teoria del rapporto infante-genitore. In: Sviluppo affettivo e ambiente. Roma: Armando, 1970, pp. 41-65).

  • Esperienza vissuta e insight nella genealogia delle tecniche psicoanalitiche: il "nuovo inizio" come sintesi nel "qui e ora" Helmut Thomä, in PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE 2/2022 pp.245
    DOI: 10.3280/PU2022-002004

Paolo Migone, Percorsi nella psicoanalisi: John E. Gedo in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 3/2019, pp 405-416, DOI: 10.3280/PU2019-003002