Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism (Critical Issues in Psychoanalysis)

Fresh and clean hardcover copy with original dustjacket. Contains some underlinings. Frisches und sauberes gebundenes Exemplar mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Enth� einige Unterstreichungen. Contents: Contents - Dedication - Acknowledgments - Introduction - PART I: DEVELOPMENT - 1 Beating Fantasies in Children - 2 The Essence of Masochism - 3 Masochism and the Delusion of Omnipotence from a Developmental Perspective - 4 Postoedipal Transformations: Latency, Adolescence, and Pathogenesis - PART II: MECHANISMS - 5 Projection and Externalization - 6 Varieties of Transference in the Analysis of an Adolescent - 7 Externalization as a Pathological Form of Relating: The Dynamic Underpinnings of Abuse - PART III: CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS - 8 Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: The Suicide Sequence - 9 A �Boo Warning�: Ego Disruption in an Abused Little Girl - 10 �I Hate You for Saving My Life�: Borrowed Trauma in the Analysis of a Young Adult - PART IV: TECHNICAL INTERVENTION - 11 Talking with Toddlers - 12 Negative Therapeutic Motivation and Negative Therapeutic Alliance - 13 Deciding on Termination: The Relevance of Child and Adolescent Analytic Experience to Work with Adults - 14 Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an �Interminable� Analysis - 15 Sadomasochism and the Therapeutic Alliance: Implications for Clinical Technique ISBN 9781568216522