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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960242203321

Autore

Volkan Vamik D. <1932->

Titolo

Would-be wife killer : a clinical study of primitive mental functions, actualised unconscious fantasies, satellite states, and developmental steps / / Vamik D. Volkan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-92428-3

0-367-32991-3

0-429-91005-3

0-429-48528-X

1-78241-396-0

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

616.891

Soggetti

Mental illness - Treatment

Mental illness - Diagnosis

Mental illness

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

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT THIS BOOK; CHAPTER ONE A beginning therapist meets a would-be wife murderer; CHAPTER TWO A man with three penises and two vaginas; CHAPTER THREE My first three months with Attis; CHAPTER FOUR A childhood injury to a body part that stands for a penis and actualised unconscious fantasy; CHAPTER FIVE Thoughts on personality organisations; CHAPTER SIX The psychotic core; CHAPTER SEVEN Beginning outpatient therapy; CHAPTER EIGHT Linking interpretations, a flesh-coloured car, and emotional flooding

CHAPTER NINETurkey dinners and identification with a therapeutic libidinal objectCHAPTER TEN Internalisation-externalisation cycles and the alteration of the psychotic core; CHAPTER ELEVEN Workable transference; CHAPTER TWELVE Satellite state and therapeutic play; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Crucial juncture experiences; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Physical illnesses and psychic freedom; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sunset; REFERENCES; INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

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 his wife's head with an axe and he was hospitalized. Previous to this incident he had delusions and hallucinations. He died at age eighty-two as a beloved community leader. The author provides clinical illustrations of primitive transference and countertransferenc