Soul Murder Revisited; Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory

by Leonard Shengold

• ISBN13: 9780300086997
• ISBN10: 0300086997
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

A decade after the publication of his highly acclaimed book Soul Murder, Dr. Leonard Shengold reflects anew on the circumstances and the consequences of willful abuse and neglect of children. With compelling examples from literature and from clinical cases, Dr. Shengold describes techniques of adaptation and denial by victims, the psychopathology of soul murder, and therapy techniques for restoring the capacity to love.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Perspectives on Soul Murder
Fatal Gifts	p. 19
The Smell of Semen	p. 47
Once Is Never (Or Once Doesn't Count)	p. 65
The Ring of the Narcissist	p. 77
Child Abuse and the Concentration Camp	p. 97
The Background of Soul Murder
"That Fixed Obsession Which Is a State of Love": Where Proust and Freud Can Be Both Wise and Wrong	p. 113
Comments on Freud's "A Child Is Being Beaten"	p. 137
Literary Examples
Algernon Swinburne: A Child Who Wanted to Be Beaten	p. 167
The Moth and the Mother: Elizabeth Bishop	p. 207
"Did it Really Happen?"
Narcissistic Pathology Stemming from Parental Weakness	p. 245
Murder, Violence, and Soul Murder: "Did It Really Happen?" and a Note on Therapy	p. 257
A Discussion of "Dissociative Processes and Transference/Countertransference Paradigms in the Psychoanalytically Oriented Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse,"	p. 287
References	p. 303
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Permissions	p. 314
Index	p. 315
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