The Anniversary Reaction: a Response to the Unconscious Sense of Time

Mintz, Ira

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“…Since Freud’s case presentation, the concept of anniversary reactions has received varying degrees of attention in the empirical literature, with a spike in the 1970s and 1980s (e.g., Azarian et al, 1999; Gabriel, 1992; Haesler, 1986; Mintz, 1971; Pollock, 1970), and a second spike following the 9/11 attacks (Daly et al, 2008; K. Jordan, 2003).…”

Section: Bereavement and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

It’s about time: Reconceptualizing the role of time in loss and trauma.

Saltzman

2019

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: This article explores the universal concept of time with the aim of enhancing our ability to help those affected by loss and trauma as well as those who study and treat them. The help comes in the form of a new framework that focuses on how we think about, and represent, time in scholarship and practice. Method: In this conceptual article, I outline traditional approaches to incorporating time in psychological research and discuss the many related concepts, such as anniversary reactions. The main aim of the article is to introduce a reconceptualized framework of time, including the assertion of meaningful time and markers in time. The premise of this framework is that social behavioral sciences should consider time as an uneven, meaningful, and overt force that influences trajectories of adaptation in the context of traumatic loss. Results: This article describes the ways in which markers in time push our current representations of time forward and, in doing so, alter the narrative around pathological grief by removing the time limitation on grief and mourning. This framework recognizes grief as a cyclical process that unfolds in the context of meaningful, rather than chronological, time. Conclusion: The article concludes by addressing the practical implications of this reconceptualization and the potential to greatly impact scholarship and clinical approaches to addressing the needs of clients coping with traumatic loss.

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Section: Bereavement and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

It’s about time: Reconceptualizing the role of time in loss and trauma.

Saltzman

2019

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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“…They have also been perceived as a form of resistance that hinders attempts to remember and gain insight and thus prevents change (Cohen, 2007). Mintz (1971) adopted the psychoanalytic view but proposed that anniversary reactions were the outcomes of the psyche's attempt to revisit suppressed trauma to increase mastery through reexperience. He further suggested two types of anniversary reactions, depending on whether the reaction evolved from conscious stimulus or not.…”

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Anticipatory Anniversary Effects and Bereavement: Development of an Integrated Explanatory Model

Chow

2009

Journal of Loss and Trauma

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Anniversary effects have been previously noted in bereavement, but there is little empirical support for this observation. This article reports on the development of an anniversary effects model with intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental determinants based on a literature review of anniversary reactions. A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study of Chinese bereaved persons in Hong Kong was undertaken, and anticipatory bereavement anniversary effects were observed rather than the bereavement anniversary effects reported in the literature. Based on a further literature review, the first model was amended to form an integrative model of anticipatory anniversary effects. The revised model integrated concepts of appraisal and coping, as well as postulating their relationship to anniversary reactions.Anniversary reactions refer to the psychological, somatic, and behavioral responses that occur at a specific time, usually the anniversary of a significant trauma or loss. The responses can be conscious or unconscious and are perceived to be attempts at mastery of the trauma. The anniversary effect

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“…On the anniversary of her death, 4 we began to commemorate the tragic events that the patient slowly constructed from documents that, despite being easily obtained, took him years to pre-4 The dynamic significance of anniversary reactions is well known by psychoanalysts (Engel 1975;Mintz 1971;Pollock 1970), and they, too, are susceptible to such recurrent upheaval. Engel's (1975) account of his annual regression on the date of his twin brother's death is a powerful illustration of this phenomenon.…”

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Termination of Psychoanalysis and September 11

Brenner¹

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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In the United States, the last illusion of safety from problems in distant parts of the world was shattered on September 11, 2001. Psychoanalysts are in a unique position to both experience and examine how such a man-made social disaster becomes internalized and affects one's psychic reality by studying the effects of that day on patients already engaged in a psychoanalytic process. The author hypothesizes that in one such case, that of Mr. N, the termination phase was significantly affected. Furthermore, Mr. N's reaction to reading the analyst's clinical write-up further influenced the termination phase.

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The Anniversary Reaction: a Response to the Unconscious Sense of Time

Cited by 34 publications

References 11 publications

It’s about time: Reconceptualizing the role of time in loss and trauma.

It’s about time: Reconceptualizing the role of time in loss and trauma.

Anticipatory Anniversary Effects and Bereavement: Development of an Integrated Explanatory Model

Termination of Psychoanalysis and September 11

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