Substance use following bariatric weight loss surgery.
- A. Conason, J. Teixeira, Chia-Hao Hsu, L. Puma, D. Knafo, A. Geliebter
- MedicineJAMA Surgery
- 1 February 2013
This study is among the first to document significant increases in substance use following WLS using longitudinal data and suggests patients who undergo laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery may be at increased risk for alcohol use following bariatric WLS.
Balancing Closeness and Individuality in Adolescent Close Relationships
- S. Shulman, D. Knafo
- Psychology
- 1 November 1997
A systemic perspective is adapted in this account of close friendships and romantic relationships in adolescence. Data from a series of studies conducted on dyads of close friends and romantic…
Guys and Dolls: Relational Life in the Technological Era
- D. Knafo
- Psychology
- 4 July 2015
This paper asserts the current age as perverse, a social paradigm facilitated by explosive technological progression that is rapidly altering the erotic and social dimensions of human relationship.…
The Sexual Illusionist
- D. Knafo
- PsychologyPsychoanalytic Perspectives
- 19 June 2018
In a letter to Carl Jung in 1902, Sigmund Freud wrote, “the cure is effected by love.” Indeed, I believe, like Freud, that every therapy is a love relationship of a sort and that the analytic work is…
The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- D. Knafo, Rocco Lo Bosco
- Psychology
- 1 December 2016
The Primal Scene: Variations on a Theme
The authors propose that multiple and shifting identificatory positions can be discerned in primal scene configurations and that primal scene experiences and fantasies are viewed as a blueprint for internalized object relationships.
The senses grow skilled in their craving: thoughts on creativity and addiction.
- D. Knafo
- ArtPsychoanalytic Review
- 22 August 2008
The connection between creativity and addiction is nearly as legendary as that between creativity and madness. Many people expect creative individuals to abuse substances and are hardly surprised…
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