Psychic retreats : pathological organisations in psychotic, neurotic, and borderline patients / John Steiner
2003, 6th Edition or Higher. London ; New York : Routledge. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #438855
ISBN: 0415099242
Physical description; 162 p. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by; Introduction; A theory of psychic retreats; Psychic retreats: a clinical illustration; The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions; Review: narcissistic object relations and pathological organizations of the personality; The recovery of parts of the self lost through projective identification: the role of mourning; The retreat to a delusional world: psychotic organizations of the personality; Revenge, resentment, remorse and reparation; The relationship to reality in psychic retreats
Perverse relationships in pathological organizationsTwo types of pathological organization in Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus; Problems of psychoanalytic technique: patient-centred and analyst-centred interpretations; References; Name index; Subject index. Subjects; Borderline personality disorder. Defense mechanisms (Psychology). Neuroses. Object relations (Psychoanalysis). Psychoses.
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