Relationships to Bad Objects: Repetition or Current Self-Disorganization?

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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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  Data: 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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