Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand: An Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction

ISBN-13: 9780415531986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

L. on Wurmser; Heidrun Jarass

Opis

Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, including many-layered guilt and shame, aspects of envy and jealousy, attachment to negative affects, turning trauma from passive to active, conflicts within the superego, and the defensive use of omnipotence of responsibility. In Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand, Wurmser, Jarass, and their colleagues consider these and other factors insightfully.

Spis treści

Wurmser, Negative Therapeutic Reaction and the Compulsion to Disappoint the Other. Orgel, On Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Schmithuesen, "Time That No One Can Count, Always Begins Anew": Thoughts Concerning the Function and Meaning of the So-called Negative Therapeutic Reaction from the Perspective of Time Standing Still. Hirsch, Negative Therapeutic Reaction in the Light of Object Relations Theory. Jarass, "I Have to Destroy Everything I Love": Totalitarian Conscience—Acted Out and Understood. Frommer, "Omnipresence," a Masked Cause of Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Considerations on the Long Shadow of Totalitarian Repression. Schmidt-Hellerau, The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Ornstein, The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Revisited. Bornstein, An Addition to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and Clinical Masochism.