Psychic retreats : pathological organisations in psychotic, neurotic, and borderline patients / / John Steiner

• Autore: Steiner John <1934->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.858520651; 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Borderline personality disorder; Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Neuroses; Object relations (Psychoanalysis); Psychoses
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Psychic retreats
• ISBN: 1-134-85802-7; 1-280-03723-7; 0-203-35983-6; 9786610037230; 0-415-09923-4; 1-134-85803-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824539603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New library of psychoanalysis ; ; 19.