Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me Psychoanalysis of the Severe Neuroses in a New Key

by Wurmser, Leon

• ISBN13: 9780765704702
• ISBN10: 0765704706
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-26
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

Torment Me, But Don't Abandon Me: Psychoanalysis of the Severe Neuroses in a New Key offers analysts and psychodynamic therapists an innovative way of understanding the theoretical intersection of masochism, perversion, shame, guilt, narcissism substance abuse. This constellation of psychopathology frequently is seen in clinical practice and often proves to be a difficult personality organization to treat. While Dr. Wurmser relies on elements of classical analysis to construct his theoretical framework (including a theoretical and clinical analysis of super ego analysis), he incorporates contemporary relational and intersubjective perspectives understanding that the analyst's involvement of the self is critical for the successful treatment of the serious neuroses.

Author Biography

Leon Wurmser is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of West Virginia.

Table of Contents

Sleeping giant or fossil?	p. 15
"The wall of stone" - broken self and broken reality	p. 43
Character perversion	p. 91
The way from Ithaca to Golgatha - the analysis of a masochistic sexual and character perversion	p. 109
Superego as herald of resentment	p. 157
Tragic character and the devastating power of absoluteness	p. 177
"The envy of the all-powerful goddess" and womb envy - some basic equations	p. 215
The core fantasies - "from abyss to abyss"	p. 267
Technique and relationship in the treatment of the severe neuroses	p. 289
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