title: Destruction and guilt: splitting and reintegration in the analysis of a traumatised patient.
abstract: The author traces in detail how, in the analytic relationship, she was slowly able to read aspects of the trauma as 'quotations' and gradually, through transference, transform them into a symbolic language. Split-off aggression and guilt feelings became progressively accessible to interpretation through transferential projective identifications. During his analysis, the patient discovered he was the child of Nazi criminals: on his mother's side they were the third generation; on his father's side, the second.
authors.affiliation: franziska.henningsen@t-online.de
authors.forename: Franziska
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Henningsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D010334:Paternity; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology