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Would-Be Wife Killer : A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps

Paperback • 2015 • Norwegian Bokmål

Would-Be Wife Killer : A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps

By Vamik D. Volkan

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The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, and teach psychoanalytic concepts. This book is unusual since it describes a man's drastic internal psychological changes over forty years. He was thirty-nine years old when he wanted to cut off his wife's head with an axe and he was hospitalized; previous to this incident he had delusions and hallucinations. He died at age eighty-two as a beloved commu...Show more

Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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9781782202790

Publisher

London : Karnac Books

Published year

2015

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Would-Be Wife Killer : A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps

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Paperback

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