The Reconstruction of Early Childhood Trauma
Fantasy, Reality, and Verification
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8334665 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael I Good (74 Crafisland Road Brookline, MA 02167, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1994 |
| Volumen | 42 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 79-101 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1994-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000306519404200106 |
| PMID | 8182250 |
| OpenAlex | W2038767628 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 13 |
| Referencias citadas | 28 |
The contrasting perspectives of historical (actual, material) truth as opposed to narrative (intrapsychic) truth in psychoanalytic reconstruction parallel the controversial shift in Freud's thinking from a traumatic theory of neurosogenesis to a greater emphasis on fantasy and psychic reality. Freud and analysts since have sought to tease apart psychic and material reality as they dovetail in the transference. However, published cases in which a patient's memory of a childhood trauma turned out to be a verifiable fantasy or false belief and not an actuality appear to be remarkably scarce. This paper describes a case in which the patient indicated that in early childhood she had been subjected to antimasturbatory measures and finally to clitoridectomy that had ongoing traumatic effects. The case strikingly illustrates how a false memory of shock trauma may represent effects of strain traumatization interacting with fantasy and the state of drives and ego development in early childhood. It also highlights issues in the areas of trauma and memory, historical and intrapsychic truth, and the theory and technique of psychoanalytic reconstruction. Although it may not always be possible in the psychoanalytic situation to differentiate actual and plausible past events, in some cases the distinction between these perspectives on truth has clinical relevance that is more than academic
Art · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Epistemology · Fantasy · Id, ego and super-ego · Literature · Narrative · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Reality testing · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Themes in Literature Analysis
False memories, negative affects, and psychic reality
False Memory Syndrome
False Memory Syndrome
The Myth of Creating an Integrative Story
Defending a Diagnostic Pariah
False memories, negative affects, and psychic reality
High-risk sexual behaviours, from the neurotica to complex trauma
The Complex Nature of Exposure To Early Childhood Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Child
Suggestion and Veridicality in the Reconstruction of Sexual Trauma, or can a Bait of Suggestion Catch a Carp of Falsehood
Karl Abraham, Sigmund Freud, and the Fate of the Seduction Theory
The Analytic Present in Psychoanalytic Reconstructions of the Historical Past
Screen Reconstructions
On Trauma, Perversion, and “Multiple Personality”
The Recovery of Childhood Memories in Psychoanalysis
Narrative Truth and Historical Truth
Fact and Fantasy in the Seduction Theory
The significance of the actual historical event in psychiatry and psychoanalysis
The Incidence and Character of Masturbation Threats in a Group of Problem Children
Object Loss and Early Sexual Development
Witnessing Pornography and the Reconstruction of Suspected Child Sexual Molestation
Telephone Anxiety
The Prototype Of Preoedipal Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Of A Traumatic Childhood Event In A Case Of Derealization
Incest—See under Oedipus Complex”
Psychoanalytic Reconstructions and Empirical Data
The Symbol of Telephoning
The Phallic Representation of the Voice
Oedipal and Preoedipal Phenomena
Reconstruction and Theory Formation
Reconstruction and Perceptual Experience
On Methods of Reporting Clinical Material
On Reconstruction
Is Psychoanalysis “Our Science“? Reflections on the Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis
A Case of Premenstrual Distress
Why Some Patients Conduct Actual Investigations of Their Biographies
The Voice as (Female) Phallus
Masturbation from Infancy to Senescence
| Obras citantes distintas | 13 |
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| Citas por año | 0,42 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1995 - 2021 (27) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 12 |