StarAstrologer - Books : Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients (New Library of Psychoanalysis ; 19)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.858520651
EAN: 9780415099240
ISBN: 0415099242
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: December 22, 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Sales Rank: 158620
Studio: Routledge
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Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who have withdrawn to avoid anxiety and mental pain and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. Using current Kleinian theory, John Steiner examines how these retreats are constructed and how analysis can treat them. He examines the way object relationships and defenses can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change--terming these structures ``psychic retreats.''
Psychic Retreats is written with practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.
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