Errant Selves

A Casebook of Misbehavior
Herausgeber: Goldberg, Arnold I.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Guided by the self-psychological framework developed by Arnold Goldberg in Being of Two Minds (TAP, 1999), the contributors to Errant Selves explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and addiction in which the misbehavior at issue served primarily to ward off painful affects or states of dysphoria in order to achieve a basic integrity of the self. For these patients, the pathway to self-cohesion entailed the florid acting out typical of narcissistic behavior disorders. But these patients not only derived feelings of strength and even pleasure from their conduct; they were simultaneously repulsed by their own perverse and aberrant behavior. Following Goldberg's theoretical framework, this troubling state of affairs is understood in terms of "vertical splits" and the psychology of disavowal. For patients with "errant selves, " that is, the psychodynamics of disavowal have shaped development to the point that they end up living parallel lives with different values, ambitions, and goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780881633337
• ISBN-10: 088163333X
• Artikelnr.: 20987893

Autorenporträt

Goldberg, Arnold I.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Case of John Alter: To Catch a Thief (or Two). The Case
of Kool: The Psychoanalysis of a Transvestite. The Case of Bert: A Case of
Infidelity. The Case of Jane: A Young Woman in Passionate Pursuit. The Case
of Peter Stone: A Case of Compulsive Masturbation. The Case of Alice:
Perverse Indiscretions of an Inhibited Young Woman. The Case of Rashid:
Purloined Letters - The Case of a Man Who Stole Books. The Case of
Alexander: Variations on the Vertical Split - Psychotherapy of a
Delinquent.