The negative therapeutic reaction, maternal transference, and obsessions

Article Abstract:

Negative therapeutic reactions can be caused by more than one problem such as narcissism and envy or the fear of losing a sense of self. One patient adopted an oppositional stance because he identified his therapist with women who rejected him after saying they loved him, starting with his mother. The patient had trouble maintaining relationships because he did not believe he could be loved and because he saw his mother's lack of attention as a deficiency in himself rather than her. He compulsively scared women away and then obsessed because relationships followed the same pattern.

Causes of, Defensiveness (Psychology), Negativism

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Forms of the sacred

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There may be a transference/countertransference matrix in which the patient and the analyst both participate in encouragement of an illusion of the patient's primary narcissistic status. The matrix might be seen, symbolically, as an analytic womb holding analyst and patient. The matrix would correspond to a mythical symbolism of initiation involving rebirth in an obstetric sense. The matrix in some way may serve also as a resistance to transferences that have to do with defensive splitting or repression. Myths other than the Oedipus myth may be related to psychoanalysis.

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A mirror to analysis

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Three books about psychoanalysis are discussed, two novels and one autobiographical account of a psychiatric residency. The image of psychoanalysis is examined in the works 'In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist' by Robert Klitzman, 'Lying on the Couch' by Irvin D. Yalom, and 'Mount Misery' by Samuel Shem.

Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist (Book), Lying on the Couch (Book), Mount Misery (Book), Klitzman, Robert, Yalom, Irvin D., Shem, Samuel

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