Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach

Disorders of the Self: New Therapeutic Horizons: The Masterson Approach

Language: English

Pages: 448

ISBN: 0876307861

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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patient, fantasy seems to be an answer to the problem posed by the schizoid dilemma, it brings with it its own problems. This is also true for the therapist working with the schizoid patient. Fantasy has the capacity to stabilize and strengthen the self-in-exile structure. It enables the schizoid patient to achieve a greater degree of self-containment and self-reliance. Fantasy does not need objects in external reality to gratify the fundamental need of relatedness. Thus it can enhance the

in what is being communicated. I am also interested in communicating my understanding to the patient. I am there, and I am interested. We are two separate minds trying to figure out where and how to interface. I have no need, however, to impose my understanding. I offer it as my experience of the patient and await confirmation or correction. I am not committed to an agenda. I want the patient to know where I stand. I am predictable, interested, curious, and concerned (the definition of

22, the patient told me that he had decided to go ahead with the marriage, which was now only two weeks away. He stated, "I feel increasingly the pressure to go ahead. It is a pressure from within, not from outside, not from you or my fiancee, but from deep within myself." He said that when his girlfriend stated her wish to be closer to him, it felt more like an invitation and less like an intrusion. He reflected, "Fantasy has kept me company too much and for too long. I never truly liked being

far, and in this case, I wonder if perhaps you felt your revelation exposed you to one of two dangers: either I'll become disgusted and throw you out of therapy, or will become critical and impatient and demand that you work harder. To feel safe from either of those two dangers, you compromised by retreating into the safety of silence, but in the process had to pay the price of not exploring any other possibilities and were left feeling cut off and isolated." Klein notes that the schizoid patient

unless there is pressure for relatedness. The childhood caretakers of such higher-level patients seem to have been experienced as more emotionally manipulative or intrusive than as indifferent or sadistic. Case of Mr. B. An example of a higher-level schizoid patient is Mr. B., who had a distant, self-absorbed, manipulative father and a mother who was either benignly distant or, when she did notice her son's emotional life, intrusively quizzed him about his feelings. Mr. B. is reasonably

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