title: Victim-victimizer relational dynamics as maintained by representational, defensive, and neurobiological functioning.
abstract: Cognitive-affective, defensive, and neurobiological aspects of victim-victimizer relational dynamics are illustrated. Observations of a 26-year-old mother and her 9-year-old son during a semistructured play task and projective and objective assessment data provide the sources of inference regarding how the parent and child's thematic structures are relationally expressed, maintain their psychopathology, and foster a victim-victimizer interactional cycle. By way of complementary interpersonal, psychological, and neurobiological processes, a victim-victimizer relational dynamic is maintained and intergenerationally transmitted.
authors.affiliation: University of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. rholigrocki@uindy.edu
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Holigrocki
authors.forename: Robbi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hudson-Crain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D003376:Counseling; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009446:Neurobiology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014743:Videotape Recording