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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813896803321

Autore

Williams Paul

Titolo

Invasive Objects [[electronic resource] ] : Minds Under Siege

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011

ISBN

1-135-84492-5

1-283-04584-2

9786613045843

0-203-88822-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Relational Perspectives Book Series

Disciplina

616.89/17

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis --Case studies

Psychology, Pathological

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: Clinical chapters; Chapter 1 Incorporation of an invasive object; Chapter 2 Some difficulties in the analysis of a withdrawn patient; Chapter 3 Psychotic developments in a sexually abused borderline patient; Chapter 4 Making time, killing time; Chapter 5 The psychoanalytic therapy of "Cluster A" personality disorders: Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal; Chapter 6 The "beautiful mind" of John Nash: Notes toward a psychoanalytic reading; Part II: Applied chapters; Chapter 7 Madness in society

Chapter 8 The worm that flies in the nightChapter 9 "The central phobic position" Notes on AndreĢ Green's "new formulation of the free association method" and the analysis of borderline states; Chapter 10 Freud-baiting; Chapter 11 Notes on "notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis" (Freud, 1909); Chapter 12 Unimaginable storms: Introduction and conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The ""Director"" controls Ms. B's life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and



dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The ""Director"" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone. The story of Ms. B's analysis is one of many vivid illustrations presented in this collection of papers by Paul W