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Psychopathology I: Neurotic Psychopathology

May 14, 2021 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Wyman Classroom

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
Michael Pauly, MD


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May 14, 2021 — Masochism / Self-Defeating Personalities

[39 pages]

38 pages

Meyers breaks the functioning of masochism down into four categories (regulation of guilt; maintenance of object relations, regulation of self-esteem, importance in self-definition).

McWilliams offers in this chapter a comprehensible way of understanding neurotic-level manifestations of masochistic character and helpfully distinguishes masochistic self-defeating characters from that of the depressive character. She offers clinical examples, notably drawing our attention to the need for tactful confrontation in the place of expressed empathy and to watch for the provoked countertransference that oscillates between a wish to rescue and a wish to retaliate (felt irritability / sadistic pole).

Auchincloss E.; Samberg, E. (2012), “Masochism”, in Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts, pp145-147.

Meyers, H. (1988). “A consideration of treatment techniques in relation to the functions of masochism” in Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Glick, R. and Meyers, D. eds.) pp175-188.

McWilliams, N. (2011) Ch 12, “Masochistic (Self-Defeating) Personalities” in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process (2nd Edition), pp267-288.



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May 14, 2021
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