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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451169503321

Autore

Steiner John <1934-, >

Titolo

Psychic retreats : pathological organizations in psychotic, neurotic, and borderline patients / / John Steiner ; foreword by Roy Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-280-03723-7

0-203-35983-6

9786610037230

0-415-09923-4

1-134-85803-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

New library of psychoanalysis ; ; 19

Disciplina

616.858520651

616.89

Soggetti

Borderline personality disorder

Defense mechanisms (Psychology)

Neuroses

Object relations (Psychoanalysis)

Psychoses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;



Sommario/riassunto

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.