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Psychopathology II: Borderline
April 1, 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Wyman Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Michael Pauly, MD
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
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April 1, 2022 — Etiology
[24 pages]
Fear of Breakdown is a classic. In it, Winnicott tells us 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. Thomas Ogden walks us through Winnicott’s paper and Claire Winnicott offers an (optional) illustrative case. Please bring in clinical material of your own.
Winnicott, D.W. (1974) “Fear of Breakdown”, International Review of PSA, 1:103-107
Ogden, T.H. (2014) “Fear of Breakdown and the Unlived Life”, IJP, 95:205-223
