Childhood trauma, unconscious conflict and developmental transformation

Trauma is the subject of increasing attention in contemporary psychoanalysis. Its complexities will be explored in a clinical case, emphasizing traumatic experience and unconscious conflict across developmental phases. The patient, a young adult white man began analysis complaining of anxiety and depression. Born to adolescent parents, he had experienced infantile stress and childhood traumatic illness. Needy, greedy, and dependent, he was gratified by the frequency and intimacy of psychoanalysis. Genetic interpretation and reconstruction were particularly important in the analytic process. Analytic progress with attenuation of unconscious conflict and developmental transformation proved enduring after termination

Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Unconscious mind · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

• Reconstruction

  Open Access•Phyllis Greenacre•Journal of the American…•1981

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