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‘Therapy Contained Suicide’in the Inpatient Treatment of a Schizophrenic Adolescent ‐ Vicissitudes of Countertransference
Author(s) -
Hazan Yoram
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1988.tb01055.x
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , countertransference , psychotherapist , transference , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychoanalytic theory , social psychology
In the treatment of an adolescent in a psychoanalytically‐oriented ward a unique schizophrenic experience emerged which allowed for an interaction with the therapist through which we were able to learn of therapists’inner experiences in reaction to the suicide of a patient. The dynamic process of the schizophrenic experience is presented as well a as comparison of the therapists’descriptions of the feelings after the death of a patient with the feelings that arose in this treatment. Through these presentations we shall attempt to understand better the emotional, no of such an encounter.