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Psychopathology II

May 22, 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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May 22, 2020 — Perverse Mechanisms

[65 pages]

62 pages of reading.

The last two weeks of this course are dedicated to the exploration of perverse mechanisms, within which sadomasochism resides. While somewhat heavy on the reading, my hope is that given the difficulty engaging, surviving, and proving helpful to this character type the time spent is worthwhile.

Benjamin, J. (2004). Beyond Doer and Done to: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness. Psychoanal Q., 73(1):5-46.

Jessica Benjamin, in Beyond Doer and Done To, is a must read and speaks directly to the developmental contributors and interpersonal struggles that present when an individual has been unable to recognize the other as a subjective other (think back to Winnicott). The result is a failure of what she calls a shared third that results in an endless power struggle with a drastically impaired capacity for collaboration and sharing (true togetherness); a world where everything is mine or yours, including the perception of reality. This struggle inevitably becomes a centerpiece of the transference-countertransference experience. Please bring examples from your work.

Bach, S. (1994) Ch1, “Sadomasochistic Object Relations” in The Language of Perversion and The Language of Love. London: Aronson, pp3-25.

Sheldon Bach’s chapter, Sadomasochistic Object Relations, I think is invaluable in terms of working with sado-masochistically organized individuals. The chapter draws on many of the themes described in articles earlier in the course (difficulties in the realms of separation- individuation, developmental trauma, role of aggression, inability to mourn, narcissistic omnipotence, failures of seeing the other as separate, concrete mental processes) to explain the developmental line of perverse relating and guide the treatment approach.



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May 22, 2020
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