Invasive objects: minds under siege
The "Director" controls Ms. B's life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The "Director" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone. The story of Ms. B's analysis is …
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- Full title :Invasive objects : minds under siege / Paul Williams.
Summary
The "Director" controls Ms. B's life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The "Director" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone. The story of Ms. B's analysis is one of many vivid illustrations presented in this collection of papers by Paul Williams, who shares h.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203888223, 0203888227, 9781135844929, 1135844925, 9781135844875, 1135844879, 9781135844912, 1135844917, 9780203888230, 0203888235
- oclc:ocn710992749
- LC Classification:RC509.8
- Dewey Decimal:616.89/17
Table of Contents
Incorporation of an invasive object -- Some difficulties in the analysis of a withdrawn patient -- Psychotic developments in a sexually abused borderline patient -- Making time, killing time -- The psychoanalytic therapy of "cluster A" personality disorders : paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal -- The "beautiful mind" of John Nash : notes toward a psychoanalytic reading -- Madness in society -- The worm that flies in the night -- "The central phobic position" : notes on Andre Green's "New formulation of the free association method" and the analysis of borderline states -- Freud-baiting -- Notes on "Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis" -- Unimaginable storms : introduction and conclusion.
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