Wasting time in analysis: the lure of repetition.
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| Title: | Wasting time in analysis: the lure of repetition. |
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| Authors: | Bernstein, June |
| Source: | Modern Psychoanalysis. 2013, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p88-99. 12p. |
| Subjects: | Repetition compulsion, Destructive interference, Psychoanalysis, Pleasure, Narcissistic personality disorder |
| Abstract: | Why does analysis take so long? Destructive urges associated with the death instinct and the repetition compulsion give a conceptual framework for the existence of time-wasting in analysis. Constructive ends may also be served by repetition. Repetition may offer pleasure, mastery, and the conservation of needed relationships, including the maintenance of a long-term relationship with the analyst. Modern analysis has developed some specific theories and techniques which have relevance to this issue. The analytic relationship is an example of a favorable outcome of the ability to spend a lot of time before mutative change takes place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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