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Psychopathology II
March 27, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Michael Pauly, MD
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March 27, 2020 — Etiology (continued)
[24 pages]
23 pages of reading.
Winnicott, D.W. (1974) “Fear of Breakdown”, International Review of PSA, 1:103-107
Fear of Breakdown is a classic. In it Winnicott precociously captures what Mancia represents in neurobiological terms; that there is a storing in the implicit memory systems an awareness of lived events of past emotional overwhelm (primitive agonies) that have not been fully psychologically experienced and hence have not been thought about and hence haunt the person and at times present in treatment as a fear of breakdown. This paper and its concepts offer a foundational link to many papers that follow in this course.
Ogden, T.H. (2014) “Fear of Breakdown and the Unlived Life”, IJP, 95:205-223
Thomas Ogden walks us through Winnicott’s paper and Claire Winnicott offers an (optional) illustrative case. Please bring in clinical material of your own.
Optional Reading
Winnicott, C. (1980). Fear of Breakdown: A Clinical Example. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 61:351-357
