Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Relationships to Bad Objects: Repetition or Current Self-Disorganization? |
| Authors: |
Fonagy, Peter, Target, Mary |
| Source: |
Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 2004, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p733-741. 9p. |
| Subjects: |
Psychoanalysts as authors, Patients, Mental discipline, Identification (Psychology), Projection (Psychology), Therapeutics |
| Abstract: |
The authors conceptualize Davies's account of the difficult session with her patient Karen as a mentalization mismatch: an expectable failure on the analyst's part to understand the mental state of the patient. In response, the patient used projective identification to re-create the link to the analyst that was temporarily severed. They argue that the therapeutic impasse produced by Karen's successful externalization of a persecuting part of her self is more than repetition of a past relationship. It is the current experience of a disorganized self: a pervasive state for the borderline patient, and a temporary but no less disorganized state in the analyst. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
