Childhood trauma, unconscious conflict and developmental transformation

  • Trauma is the subject of increasing attention in contemporary psychoanalysis. Its complexities will be explored in a clinical case, emphasizing traumatic experience and unconscious conflict across developmental phases. The patient, a young adult white man began analysis complaining of anxiety and depression. Born to adolescent parents, he had experienced infantile stress and childhood traumatic illness. Needy, greedy, and dependent, he was gratified by the frequency and intimacy of psychoanalysis. Genetic interpretation and reconstruction were particularly important in the analytic process. Analytic progress with attenuation of unconscious conflict and developmental transformation proved enduring after termination.

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Author:Harold P. Blum
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 165-172.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2020/11/03
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Blum_H_P_2019
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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