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Scylla and Charybdis
Author(s) -
WARE ROBERT C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-5922.1995.00005.x
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , citation , presentation (obstetrics) , german , psychoanalysis , sexual abuse , psychology , classics , philosophy , history , law , medicine , political science , linguistics , social psychology , poison control , moral reasoning , environmental health , injury prevention , radiology
The increasing importance and frequency of so-called 'false memories' of sexual abuse, which in reality never occurred, occasions a theoretical reflection about therapy-induced 'memories' of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is first seen to involve a serious loss of psychic structure. As such it has much in common with other, endogenous forms of severe psychic disorders. Drawing upon the (Kleinian) categories of projective identification, projective counter-identification and psychotic personality aspects, together with the Jungian conception of the 'mutual unconsciousness' between therapist and patient, the author presents a psychodynamic hypothesis regarding the origins of 'false memories' or 'recovered memories' of sexual abuse. This is exemplified with two therapy cases involving such memories of abuse.