Fearful Symmetry

The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism

von Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick

432 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Using data from infant observation, and child, adolescent, and adult analyses, the Novicks explicate a multidimensional, developmental theory of sadomasochism that has been recognized as a major innovation. According to the Novicks, each phase of development contributes to the clinical manifestations of sadomasochism. Painful experiences in infancy are transformed into a mode of attachment, then into an embraced marker of specialness and unlimited destructive power, then into a conviction of equality with oedipal parents, and, finally, into an omnipotent capacity to gratify infantile wishes through the coercion of others. By school age, these children have established a magic omnipotent system of thought which undermines alternate means of competent interactions with reality.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Theorien und Denkschulen Psychoanalyse
• ISBN: 9780765705440
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2007
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.