Perverse modes of thought.
Subtle, nonpsychotic disturbances in thinking may cause significant impairment of intellectual functioning and interfere with a patient's capacity to make use of psychoanalytic treatment. As these come under interpretive scrutiny, the intellectual exchange between patient and analyst may emerge as a theater for the enactment of perverse sexual fantasies. In this paper, the author describes these disturbances in thinking and proposes a model that explains their underlying structure and their link to the associated fantasies. Interpretation and working through of the condensed part-object and whole-object transferences that emerge in the analysis of these forms of thinking may lead to some measure of clinical improvement.
Zimmer
Richard
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lafzim@earthlink.net
D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D004532:Ego; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D013850:Thinking; D014167:Transference, Psychology