title: Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation.
abstract: The history is traced of observations made of the phenomena associated with self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Owing to personal and other conflicts in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the development of these observations was disturbed, and they were reobserved and re-described using different terminologies in accounts which have not hitherto been collected and compared. When this is done, a consensus appears which can be stated in a common language to facilitate further accretion of observation, and further research and debate.
authors.affiliation: Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital, London.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Macdiarmid
mesh_terms: D002409:Cathexis; D004208:Displacement, Psychological; D005060:Europe; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000266:history; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000266:history; D014481:United States