Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty
Paperback 260 pages English Mar 30, 2017
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This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic perspective. The age of the cases presented in the book ranges from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty is a challenging contribution to contemporary clinical debate, especially regarding the role of analytically-oriented psychotherapy in the treatment of OCD, and how to deal with the psychiatric treatment and combine the two approaches, while keeping the focus on the transference-countertransference interplay. After the first theoretical chapter, the relationship between obsessions and thinking impairments is discussed, with specific reference to delusional ideation. A section entitled "the anal conundrum" follows. Encopresis and anal masturbation during childhood are discussed, as well as the identification of the child with a maternal "faecal object. The last section explores the connection with depression, and some specific features of sadism.
- Author:
- Francesco Bisagni
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Mar 30, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 260 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1782205306
- ISBN-13:
- 9781782205302