The power of the inner judge : psychodynamic treatment of the severe neuroses / by Léon Wurmser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wurmser, Leon.

Standardized Title:

Flucht vor dem Gewissen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Neuroses--Treatment.

Neuroses.

Superego.

Neurotic Disorders--therapy.

Defense Mechanisms.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Psychoanalytic Therapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Neurotic Disorders--therapy.

Defense Mechanisms.

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Psychoanalytic Therapy--methods.

Superego.

Physical Description:

xi, 356 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Psychodynamic treatment of the severe neuroses

Place of Publication:

Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson Inc., [2000]

Summary:

The clinical phenomena of masochism, narcissim, and compulsive drug use persist with such compelling force against conscious will power that the patient's every interest and happiness is poisoned, each success destroyed. Fueled by chronic traumatization and the superego conflicts that derive from it, these severe neuroses have components of resentment and denial, leading to double identity (multiple personality and dissociation), rooted in double conscience. The eminent Leon Wurmser (author of The Hidden Dimension and The Mask of Shame) argues here that the particularly intensive conflicts and anxieties characteristic of the severe neuroses can be approached analytically: the paradigm can be tailored to allow for such modifications as medication, behavior therapy, and family interventions without compromising the analytic situation. This is an eloquent accounting of a master analyst's successes and failure, especially of those interventions experienced as decisive in given treatments with traditionally unanalyzable patients.

Contents:

2. Defense and Superego Analysis 47

3. Reconstruction Made Possible by "Acting Out" 95

4. Masochistic Impulsive Action, Resentment, and the Split Superego 139

5. The Need to Destroy Success 199

6. Global Affects and the Problem of Absoluteness 249

7. The Repetition Compulsion 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765701774

OCLC:

42292245