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Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organisations in Psychotic, Neurotic, and Borderline Patients (New Library of Psychoanalysis ; 19)
Psychic Retreats Pathological Organisations in Psychotic Neurotic and Borderline Patients - New Library of Psychoanalysis ; 19 Author:John Steiner Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who have withdrawn to avoid anxiety and mental pain and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. Using current Kleinian theory, John Steiner examines how these retreats are constructed and how analysis can treat them. He examines the way object relationships and defenses can be orga... more »nized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change--terming these structures ``psychic retreats.''Psychic Retreats is written with practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.« less