title: Euripides' Medea: a psychodynamic model of severe divorce pathology.
abstract: Analysis of Euripides' play, Medea, and a divorcing family suggests that divorce between a narcissistically scarred, embittered, dependent woman and a pathologically narcissistic, devaluing man may lead to the mother's attempt to sever father-child contact as a means of revenging the injury inflicted on her by the loss of a selfobject, her hero-husband.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. 10461.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D004243:Divorce; D004324:Drama; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation