Work with patients with severe neuroses very often has to cope with the phenomenon that every progress in the analytic or therapeutic work is followed paradoxically by a clinical deterioration. There are a number of dynamic factors that converge to bring about this negative therapeutic reaction, including many-layered guilt and shame, aspects of envy and jealousy, attachment to negative affects, turning trauma from passive to active, conflicts within the superego, and the defensive use of omnipotence of responsibility.

In Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand, Wurmser, Jarass, and their colleagues consider these and other factors insightfully, such as the extent to which traumatization lives on in self-directed aggressions of the superego in the claim of omnipotence; the significant role of deep conflicts between opposite values and loyalties in bringing about the prohibition of anything "good" and thus of the negative therapeutic reaction in particular and masochism in general; and the extent to which envy, jealousy, and resentment can be encountered in the "inner object, " the "inner judge" (i.e., the superego), and how they are directed against the self.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2012

ISBN

9781136273278

Edition

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Psychoanalysis

Index

Psychology

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1. Negative Therapeutic Reaction and the Compulsion to Disappoint the Other
2. On Negative Therapeutic Reaction
3. “Time That No One Can Count, Always Begins Anew”
4. Negative Therapeutic Reaction in the Light of Object Relations Theory
5. “I Have to Destroy Everything I Love”
6. “Omnipresence,” a Masked Cause of Negative Therapeutic
7. Anxiety in the Negative Th erapeutic Reaction
8. The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Revisited
9. An Addition to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and Clinical Sadomasochism
Epilogue
Index