Stanley J. Coen, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Coen is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
I. Background for the Study of Pathological Dependency 1. Introduction 2.
What Is Pathological Dependency? 3. What Is Destructiveness and Why Is It
So Frightening in Dependency? II. The Inability to Manage Oneself 4.
Responsibility for Conflict and the Incapacity to Bear It 5. Dependency and
the Superego 6. Repetition Versus Change 7. The Sense of Defect III. The
Need to Avoid Destructiveness 8. Sexualization 9. Superego Aspects of
Entitlement 10. Psychosomatic Avoidance of Conflict IV. The Pathological
Need for the Other 11. Some Problems for the Analyst in Analyzing
Pathological Dependency 12. The Excitement of Sadomasochism 13. Perversion
14. Pathological Jealousy V. Conclusion 15. Toward a Passionate Analysis:
Technique in the Analysis of Pathological Dependency
