Interaction and interpretation. Commentary on Morris Eagle's >enactments, transference, and symptomatic cure<

  • The doctrine of defects in the self leads to a clinical focus on what is missing rather than on what is present in pathological organizatons of self-experience. Felt deficiencies in the sense of self may be understood not as manifestations of an irreducible internal defect within the person, but rather as the consequence of various organizing principles established in early transactions with caregivers. An illustration of this idea is provided by a brief description of the life and treatment of a young woman who felt that she had no self and that she did not exist.

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Author:George E. Atwood, Robert D. Stolorow
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 517-522.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1997
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Atwood_G_E_Stolorow_R_D_1997
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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