Using data from infant observation, and child, adolescent, and adult analyses, the Novicks explicate a multidimensional, developmental theory of sadomasochism that has been recognized as a major innovation. According to the Novicks, each phase of development contributes to the clinical manifestations of sadomasochism. Painful experiences in infancy are transformed into a mode of attachment, then into an embraced marker of specialness and unlimited destructive power, then into a conviction of equality with oedipal parents, and, finally, into an omnipotent capacity to gratify infantile wishes through the coercion of others. By school age, these children have established a magic omnipotent system of thought which undermines alternate means of competent interactions with reality.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Beating Fantasies in Children
Chapter 2 The Essence of Masochism
Chapter 3 Masochism and the Delusion of Omnipotence from a Developmental Perspective
Chapter 4 Postoedipal Transformations: Latency, Adolescence, and Pathogenesis
Chapter 5 Projection and Externalization
Chapter 6 Varieties of Transference in the Analysis of an Adolescent
Chapter 7 Externalization as a Pathological Form of Relating: The Dynamic Underpinnings of Abuse
Chapter 8 Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: The Suicide Sequence
Chapter 9 A "Boo Warning": Ego Disruption in an Abused Little Girl
Chapter 10 "I Hate You for Saving My Life": Borrowed Trauma in the Analysis of a Young Adult
Chapter 11 Talking with Toddlers
Chapter 12 Negative Therapeutic Motivation and Negative Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 13 Deciding on Termination: The Relevance of Child and Adolescent Analytic Experience to Work with Adults
Chapter 14 Termination: A Case Report of the End Phase of an "Interminable" Analysis
Chapter 15 Sadomasochism and the Therapeutic Alliance: Implications for Clinical Technique
