Psychic retreats pathological organisations in psychotic, neurotic, and borderline patients

Steiner utilises Kleinian theory to analyse those patients who have organised object relationships and defences into complex, rigid internal struc- tures. Using clinical examples he examines these psychotic organisations and suggests a therapy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steiner, John, 1934- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 1993.
Edition:1st ed
Series:New library of psychoanalysis ; 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by; Introduction; A theory of psychic retreats; Psychic retreats: a clinical illustration; The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions; Review: narcissistic object relations and pathological organizations of the personality; The recovery of parts of the self lost through projective identification: the role of mourning; The retreat to a delusional world: psychotic organizations of the personality; Revenge, resentment, remorse and reparation; The relationship to reality in psychic retreats
  • Perverse relationships in pathological organizationsTwo types of pathological organization in Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus; Problems of psychoanalytic technique: patient-centred and analyst-centred interpretations; References; Name index; Subject index;