Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients (New Library of Psychoanalysis ; 19)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Foreword by......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
A theory of psychic retreats......Page 16
Psychic retreats: a clinical illustration......Page 29
The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions......Page 40
Review: narcissistic object relations and pathological organizations of the personality......Page 55
The recovery of parts of the self lost through projective identification: the role of mourning......Page 69
The retreat to a delusional world: psychotic organizations of the personality......Page 79
Revenge, resentment, remorse and reparation......Page 89
The relationship to reality in psychic retreats......Page 103
Perverse relationships in pathological organizations......Page 118
Two types of pathological organization in Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus......Page 131
Problems of psychoanalytic technique: patient-centred and analyst-centred interpretations......Page 146
References......Page 162
Name index......Page 171
Subject index......Page 174