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Author Wurmser, Léon

Title Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand : an Integrative View of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Psychoanalytic inquiry book series.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Negative Therapeutic Reaction and the Compulsion to Disappoint the Other; 2 On Negative Therapeutic Reaction; 3 ""Time That No One Can Count, Always Begins Anew"": Thoughts Concerning the Function and Meaning of the So-Called Negative Therapeutic Reaction from the Perspective of Time Standing Still; 4 Negative Therapeutic Reaction in the Light of Object Relations Theory; 5 ""I Have to Destroy Everything I Love"": Totalitarian Conscience-Acted Out and Understood
6 ""Omnipresence,"" a Masked Cause of Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Considerations of the Long Shadow of Totalitarian Repression7 Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction; 8 The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Revisited; 9 An Addition to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and Clinical Sadomasochism; Epilogue: Some Thoughts about the Broader Background; Index
Summary Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, including many-layered guilt and shame, aspects of envy and jealousy, attachment to negative affects, turning trauma from passive to active, conflicts within the superego, and the defensive use of omnipotence of responsibility. In Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand, Wurmser, Jarass, and their colleagues c
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Subject Psychotherapy -- Complications
Psychotherapist and patient.
Psychotherapist and patient
Psychotherapy -- Complications
Form Electronic book
Author Jarass, Heidrun
ISBN 9781136273285
113627328X