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Mentalizing demons: A case study in working with auditory hallucinations
Author(s) -
Peluso Francesco
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30312
Subject(s) - girl , feeling , psychology , suicidal ideation , mentalization , mood , ideation , borderline personality disorder , auditory hallucination , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , developmental psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , psychosis , medicine , medical emergency , social psychology , cognitive science
Mary is a 17‐year‐old female patient with whom I worked during her stay on an inpatient psychiatric unit following a significant suicide attempt in the midst of a breakup with her girlfriend. Mary reported a history of persistently depressed mood, post‐traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and chronic suicidal ideation. She conveyed a sense of feeling largely unsupported by the important people in her life. She felt particularly invalidated by her mother when she initially disclosed her experience of sexual trauma perpetrated by a close family friend as a young girl. She remembers her mother's response implying that she was “responsible for what happened.”