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Tables of Contents for Self-Hatred in Psychoanalysis
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
xi
Acknowledgements
xiv
Preface
xv
PART 1 The theory of persecutory states of mind
1
124
Introduction to the persecutory object
3
20
Stanley A. Tsigounis
Jill Savege Scharff
What is a persecutory object?
3
1
How does the persecutory object form?
3
1
Where did concepts of persecutory projections originate?
4
6
Why do parents feel persecuted and hateful?
10
4
How does the persecutory object exert its effect?
14
5
Love and hate
19
1
References
20
3
Sources of persecutory anxiety: Death instinct or bad objects?
23
24
Jill Savege Scharff
Freud's concept of the death instinct
24
2
The Kleinian elaboration of the death instinct
26
2
Ethological arguments against the death instinct
28
1
Freudians and Kleinians opposing or revising the death instinct
29
1
Fairbairn's alternative: The tie to the bad object
29
2
A re-examination of some clinical examples in the literature
31
2
Current clinical examples for discussion of concepts
33
6
Summary: The death constellation tied to the bad object
39
4
References
43
4
The interpersonal sexual tie to the traumatic object
47
22
David E. Scharff
Sexuality, trauma, and the tie to the persecuting object
47
1
Persecutory dynamics in a couple
48
10
Contempt, self hatred, and sadomasochism
58
7
Shame and guilt in psychic organization of individuals and couples
65
2
The detoxifying power of couple therapy
67
1
References
68
1
Persecutory objects, guilt, and shame
69
20
Charles Ashbach
The agencies of regulation
69
3
Persecutory objects: A clinical vignette
72
3
Guilt and shame
75
6
Envy, masochism and aggression
81
3
The containment of shame in the countertransference
84
2
References
86
3
The noise of the persecutory object: Like a roof caving in
89
14
Yolanda De Varela
The fear of breakdown
89
1
The opening phase: Breaking down in tears
90
3
The forty-ninth session: Fear of breaking apart
93
5
The fiftieth session: Breaking from the dead exciting object
98
3
Actions and locations of the persecutory object
101
1
References
102
1
Persecutory objects in the body of self and other in Munchausen by Proxy
103
22
Kent Ravenscroft
The dynamics of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome
103
5
The mother, her child, and the hospital staff
108
3
The gains of illness
111
4
Characteristics of the mothers
115
1
The transgenerational transmission of trauma
116
3
Using countertransference to detect and understand the problem
119
3
The weight of the persecutory object
122
1
References
123
2
PART 2 The practice of detoxifying persecutory objects in assessment, psychotherapy, and consultation
125
108
Working with murderous projection and internal mutilation
127
18
Michael Kaufman
A woman who received murderous projections
127
1
The first session: Pressured and desperate
128
2
Persecutory objects in early dream material
130
2
Early containment of persecutory anxiety
132
2
Signs of transformation
134
2
Evidence of detoxification
136
5
Reclaiming the self from the violent object
141
2
References
143
2
Treating persecutory anxiety in an adolescent boy
145
20
Leslie A. Johnson
A boy with persecutory acoustic objects
146
1
First treatment phase: Controlling the threatening therapist
147
1
Second treatment phase: Waking up
148
1
Third treatment phase: Crisis of sleeplessness
149
2
Fourth treatment phase: Mapping the sounds of the persecutory object
151
3
Fifth treatment phase: The fragmenting effect of sexual desire
154
5
Discussion
159
1
The aetiology of Marty's persecutory object
159
2
The function of music in Marty's psychic economy
161
1
Detoxifying the persecutory object
162
2
References
164
1
Containing anxiety with divorcing couples
165
14
Carl Bagnini
Clinical illustrations of divorcing couples
167
6
The persecutory challenge to the therapist
173
2
Loss and mourning in divorce
175
1
Hatred, splitting, and ambivalence in divorce
176
1
Working with the therapist's self
177
1
References
178
1
Recovering from projections as a group co-therapist
179
14
Hilary Hall
Object relations theory and group therapy
180
3
The development of the group t Transference to me
183
2
Work with my countertransference
185
1
The intensification of the transference
185
1
Re-evaluation of the countertransference
186
1
The turning point session
187
3
Recovery from the hated internal couple
190
1
References
191
2
Holding and containment during surgery for physical deformity
193
12
Marianela Altamirano
The deformity as the locus of the bad object
193
1
Failure in our holding environment
194
2
The revised plan for holding and containment
196
2
The need for emotional attunement
198
1
Helping a boy brave surgery again
199
4
What we learned
203
1
References
204
1
Persecutory aspects of family business
205
20
Michael Stadter
Family dynamics and family businesses
206
4
Example: Com.com, a family fusiness
210
13
Interpretation in action
223
1
References
224
1
Detoxification possible and impossible
225
8
Stanley A. Tsigounis
Limits on the patient's healing
225
4
Limits on the therapist's effectiveness
229
2
Summary
231
1
References
232
1
Index
233