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Further Thoughts on ‘That Which Patients Bring to Analysis’
Author(s) -
Rey J. H.,
Magagna Jeanne
Publication year - 1994
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.1752-0118.1994.tb00721.x
Subject(s) - psychic , psychology , psychosis , psychoanalysis , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , aesthetics , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology
The concept of the internal objects and internal and external spaces has been further developed in this paper. These objects are an important part of patients seeking treatment for themselves for they are also looking unconsciously for ‘treatment’ of these objects. The objects are ‘damaged’ and the patient does not know how to repair them. He keeps them alive in the hope that help will come. The methods used to keep them alive, even when dying, have been described. The stages at which these objects have been, or are thought to have been, damaged is vital. For example, they can range from the sensori‐motor level to higher levels of maturation, to produce psychosis, borderline or hypochondria. The concrete level is stressed for it leads to concrete repair as opposed to psychic reparation.