Ebook Expanding The Psychoanalytic View of The Intrapsychic: Psychic Conflict in The Inscape
Dissociation theory and psychoanalysis have to some extent emerged as conflicting paradigms to explain mental illness. To the clinician versed in trauma, dissociation and hypnosis, psychoanalysis appears not yet to have figured out what to do with dissociation - continuing to neglect, down play or misinterpret it. At the same time, in dissociation-oriented meetings and literature, there is an expressed appetite for certain psychoanalytic themes such as splitting, enactment, perversion, attachment, narcissism, and transference - counter transference .
In hindsight, greater familiarity with the psychoanalytic therapeutic frame and alliance, including its principle of abstinence and non judgmental stance, might have mitigated the False Memory debacle. On the other hand, with even further hindsight, long-standing psychoanalytic denial of the reality of trauma, especially through the uncritical invocation of the Oedipus Complex (e .g. Simon, 1990), may be understood as having promoted the uncritical invocation of forgotten childhood sexual abuse in reaction. The general stance of this paper is that dissociation cannot be accommodated by prevailing psychoanalytic theory. But this is not to say that psychoanalytic theory should be rejected in work with dissociative patients . It is rather to suggest that while it maybe mistaken about the nature and causes of dissociativity and especially of multiplicity in patients, it is quite adequate in understanding many non-dissociative aspects of patients, aspects which are fully present in dissociative patients as well.
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Ebook Expanding The Psychoanalytic View of The Intrapsychic: Psychic Conflict in The Inscape
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