Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior

ISBN-13: 9780881633337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str.

Arnold Goldberg

Opis

A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of behaviour disorders. Guided by the self-psychological theoretical framework presented by Arnold Goldberg in Being of Two Minds (TAP, 1999), the contributors to this volume explore cases of perversions, delinquencies, and addictions in which the misbehaviour at issue serves primarily to ward off painful affects or states of dysphoria in order to achieve a feeling of self-cohesion. Collectively, these case studies demarcate with new clinical immediacy the category of narcissistic behaviour disorders: patients who are driven to perverse or delinquent actions in order to maintain a viable sense of self, but who are simultaneously repulsed by these very misbehaviours, which are lodged in a 'parallel self' beyond their control.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Case of John Alter: To Catch a Thief (or Two) 2. The Case of Kool: The Psychoanalysis of a Transvestite 3. The Case of Bert: A Case of Infidelity 4. The Case of Jane: A Young Woman in Passionate Pursuit 5. The Case of Peter Stone: A Case of Compulsive Masturbation 6. The Case of Alice: Perverse Indiscretions of an Inhibited Young Woman 7. The Case of Rashid: Purloined Letters - The Case of a Man Who Stole Books 8. The Case of Alexander: Variations on the Vertical Split - Psychotherapy of a Delinquent

O autorze

Goldberg, Arnold I.