The Power of the Inner Judge Psychodynamic Treatment of the Severe Neuroses

by Wurmser, Léon

• ISBN13: 9780765701770
• ISBN10: 0765701774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

This book describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego. Diverging widely from Kernberg's and Kohut's work with the same broad spectrum of patients, Lzon Wurmser demonstrates his flexible and individualized method with clinical material taken directly from actual patienttherapist interaction. The core of the therapeutic work focuses on trauma; forms of defense; conflicts within the superego; and the related affects of guilt, shame, depression, and resentment. This is an eloquent accounting of a master therapist's successes and failures, valuable especially for offering effective and decisive interventions in treating traditionally untreatable patients.

Author Biography

Leon Wurmser, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of West Virginia and Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Defense and Superego Analysis	p. 47
Reconstruction Made Possible by "Acting Out"	p. 95
Masochistic Impulsive Action, Resentment, and the Split Superego	p. 139
The Need to Destroy Success	p. 199
Global Affects and the Problem of Absoluteness	p. 249
The Repetition Compulsion	p. 289
References	p. 331
Index	p. 349
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