Miscarriages of psychoanalytic treatment with suicidal patients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8972752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glen O Gabbard (Baylor College of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-261 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/002075703321632720 |
| PMID | 12856351 |
| OpenAlex | W4229955100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 13 |
The author describes a particularly perilous frontier on the psychoanalytic landscape--namely, the treatment of suicidal patients with serious personality disorders. Using a clinical example of egregious boundary violations by an analyst, he describes specific countertransference pitfalls that lead to mishandling the patients' expressions of suicidal despair. These include disidentification with the aggressor, failure of mentalization, collapse of the analytic play space, reactions to loss in the analyst's personal life, omnipotence, envy of the patient and masochistic surrender. The author emphasizes the unique vulnerabilities that accompany analytic treatment of such patients
Countertransference · Epistemology · Mentalization · Narcissism · Omnipotence · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychoanalytic Therapy · Psychotherapist · Surrender · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Medicine · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
The Inevitability of Unconscious Engagements and the Desire to Avoid Them
Understanding the Psychodynamics of Suicidal Clients
Journal reviews
Savant syndrome and dreams
When a patient commits suicide
Body, Affect, Thought
Response to ‘Report from borderland’
What is conceptual research in psychoanalysis
Response by Jorge Luis Maldonado
On the edge
Is there still a place for the concept of ‘therapeutic regression’ in psychoanalysis
When words do not mean what they say. Self‐agency and the coercive use of language
Residues in the analyst of the patient's symbiotic connection at a somatic level
On becoming a psychoanalyst
Psychoanalysis from the Inside Out
The Analyst's Reluctance To Begin a New Analysis
Therapists’ reactions to the suicide of a patient
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |