Female aggression: a family conundrum
| Autor: | Ronald Doctor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy. 4:176-183 |
| ISSN: | 2632-0126 2632-0118 |
| DOI: | 10.33212/ijfp.v4n2.2022.176 |
| Popis: | This article examines a family therapy case involving a woman who was violent to her children and partner where conscious and unconscious paranoid beliefs were manifested in projective identification and sadomasochistic liaisons between the children and/or partner. I will illustrate how apparent social appropriateness covered up an extremely disturbed personal relationship. I will explore how this paranoid and perverse relationship arises from the use of a particular type of defensive organisation. This is characterised by a mostly narcissistic and unyielding defence, namely projective identification, which functions to help the patient avoid knowing about her aggression and anxiety by avoiding connection with other people and with reality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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