Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental

ISBN-13: 9780367329914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str.

Vamik D. Volkan

Opis

The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, and teach psychoanalytic concepts. This book is unusual since it describes a man's drastic internal psychological changes over forty years. He was thirty-nine years old when he wanted to cut off his wif

Spis treści

A beginning therapist meets a would-be wife murderer -- A man with three penises and two vaginas -- My first three months with Attis -- A childhood injury to a body part that stands for a penis and actualised unconscious fantasy -- Thoughts on personality organisations -- The psychotic core -- Beginning outpatient therapy -- Linking interpretations, a flesh-coloured car, and emotional flooding -- Turkey dinners and identification with a therapeutic libidinal object -- Internalisation–externalisation cycles and the alteration of the psychotic core -- Workable transference -- Satellite state and therapeutic play -- Crucial juncture experiences -- Physical illnesses and psychic freedom -- Sunset

O autorze

D. Volkan, Vamik