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Negative Therapeutic Reaction And The Compulsion To Disappoint The Other / Léon Wurmser -- On Negative Therapeutic Reaction / Shelley Orgel -- Time That No One Can Count, Always Begins Anew: Thoughts Concerning The Function And Meaning Of The So-called Negative Therapeutic Reaction From The Perspective Of Time Standing Still / Gerd Schmithüsen -- Negative Therapeutic Reaction In The Light Of Object Relations Theory / Mathias Hirsch -- I Have To Destroy Everything I Love: Totalitarian Conscience, Acted Out And Understood / Heidrun Jarass -- Omnipresence, A Masked Cause Of Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Considerations On The Long Shadow Of Totalitarian Repression / Jörg Frommer -- The Anxiety In The Negative Therapeutic Reaction / Cordelia Schmidt-hellerau -- The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Revisited / Anna Ornstein -- An Addition To The Psychoanalytic Understanding Of The Negative Therapeutic Reaction And Clinical Masochism / Melvin Bornstein -- Epilogue: Some Thoughts About The Broader Background / Léon Wurmser And Heidrun Jarass. Edited By Leon Wurmser, Heidrun Jarass. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
This collection investigates the psychological mechanisms behind the negative therapeutic reaction, a phenomenon where patients experience a worsening of symptoms in response to clinical progress. Editors Léon Wurmser and Heidrun Jarass compile contributions from various psychoanalytic experts to examine why individuals may unconsciously sabotage their own healing processes. The text synthesizes clinical observations, object relations theory, and the impact of historical trauma to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding this complex resistance.
What You Will Find
Experts recognize this volume as a significant contribution to the psychoanalytic literature on clinical resistance and masochism. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, making it a resource primarily intended for practicing clinicians and advanced students of psychology.
Page Count:
224
Publication Date:
2012-10-12
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
020311003X
ISBN-13:
9780203110034
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