Self-Hatred in Psychoanalysis: Detoxifying the Persecutory Object

by Jill Savege Scharff (editor), Stanley A Tsigounis (Editor)

The persecutory object is the element of the personality which attacks your confidence, productivity and acceptance to the point of no return. Persecuted patients torture themselves, hurt their loved ones and torment their therapists. In this book, the authors deal with the tenacity of the persecutory object, integrating object relations and Kleinian theories in a way of working with persecutory states of mind. This is vividly illustrated in a variety of situations, -individual, couple and group therapy-serious paediatric illness-working with persecutory aspects of family business.It is argued that the persecutory object can be contained, modified, and in many cases detoxified by the process of skilful intensive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Self Hatred in Psychoanalysis will be invaluable to a variety of practitioners including psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists and mental health counsellors.

Genres: Psychoanalysis

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2002

Reviews

[Jeremy Johnston · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of those Routledge books where every chapter is an essay by a different author, so it’s immediately docked a star (makes the book feel like a binder). But they really hit an object relations approach in every format (e.g., individual, couples, group, adolescent, BUSINESS CONSULTATION). Really fascinating + heartbreaking case examples. Shoutout to the Scharffs, who look in pictures like they sell bunker meals to Pentecostals but who actually rock.

[Mohsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

an amazing piece of work! i loved every second of reading this book, although it talks about self-hatred and how to detoxify it. but nonetheless, i loved it because where there is hate, love is just behind!

[Farrah Rotman · Rating 5 out of 5]

very cogent & well organized! the chapter on munchausen by proxy was particularly horrifying and compelling