Developmental disorders : the transitional space in mental breakdown and creative integration

1 Introduction. Part 1 - Psychic development and psychopathology. 2 Developmental factors, fusion states, and narcissism: is Narcissus a myth?. 3 Early levels of psychopathology. 4 The transitional object and the psychoanalytic paradox. 5 Object constancy and mental representations. 6 Schizophrenia: the persistent psychosis. Part 2 - Technique in the treatment of character disorders. 7 The handling and mishandling of resistance. 8 Working through: a technical dilemma. 9 Countertransference: disruptive or productive. Part 3 - Integration and adaptation. 10 Creativity, psychopathology, and character structure. 11 Primitive mental mechanism and creativity

'...traces the significance of Winnicott;s concept of transitional space for the understanding and treatment of character disorders....demonstrates the value of supplementing the conventional analytic emphasis on conflictual content with enhanced attention to the effect of the early holding environment on their emotional development and boundary formation. These patients are frequently found to have been traumatized by having been treated as inanimate extensions of the early caretaker. As a result. they are unable to soothe their sense of chronic disruptive agitation and/or feel dead and unconsciously seek out dead relationships....'

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