Nicole Chew-Helbig (Mag. pth.) | Singapore
A clinical case study of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy monitored with functional neuroimaging.
Buchheim, A., Labek, K., Walter, S., & Viviani, R. (2013). A clinical case study of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy monitored with functional neuroimaging. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7.
Reich’s influence today can be seen in the work of Otto Kernberg, who explains to us about Transference Analysis.
1. Same typical errors in the technique of interpretation and their consequences
2. Systematic interpretation and resistance analysis
3. Consistency in resistance analysis
ON THE TECHNIQUE OF CHARACTER ANALYSIS
Character armoring and character resistance
a) The inability to follow the basic rule
b) Where do the character resistances come from?
c) On the technique of analyzing the character resistance
d) The technique of dealing with individual situations as derived from the structure of the character resistance
e) The breaking down of the narcissistic defense apparatus
f) On the optimal conditions for the analytic reduction to the infantile situation from the contemporary situation
g) Character analysis in the case of abundantly flowing material
3 A case of passive-feminine character
a) Anamnesis
b) The development and analysis of the character-resistance
c) Linking the analysis of the contemporary material to the infantile
INDICATIONS AND DANGERS OF CHARACTER ANALYSIS ON THE HANDLING OF THE TRANSFERENCE
1 The distillation of the genital-object libido 127
2 Secondary narcissism, negative transference, and insight into illness
3 On the handling of the abstinence rule
4 On the question of the “dissolution” of the positive transference
5 A fe,v remarks about counter-transference
THEORY OF CHARACTER FORMATION CHARACTEROLOGICAL RESOLUTION OF THE INFANTILE SEXUAL CONFLICT
1 Content and form of psychic reactions
2 The function of character formation
3 Conditions of character differentiation
THE GENITAL CHARACTER AND THE NEUROTIC CHARACTER (THE SEX-ECONOMIC FUNCTION OF THE CHARACTER ARMOR)
1 Character and sexual stasis
2 The libido-economic difference between the genital character and the neurotic character
a) Structure of the id
b) Structure of the superego
c) Structure of the ego
3 Sublimation, reaction formation, and neurotic reaction basis
CHILDHOOD PHOBIA AND CHARACTER FORMATION
1 An “aristocratic” character
2 Overcoming of childhood phobia by the formation of character attitudes
SOME CIRCUMSCRIBED CHARACTER FORMS
1 The hysterical character
2 The compulsive character
3 The phallic-narcissistic character
THE MASOCHISTIC CHARACTER
1 Summary of views
2 The armoring of the masochistic character
3 Inhibited exhibitionism and the passion for self-deprecation
4 Unpleasurable perception of the increase of sexual excitation: the specific basis of the masochistic character
5 Observations on the therapy of masochism
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE BASIC CONFLICT BETWEEN NEED AND OUTER WORLD
FROM PSYCHOANALYSIS TO ORGONE BIOPHYSICS
PSYCHIC CONTACT AND VEGETATIVE CURRENT
1 More about the conflict between instinct and outer World
2 Same technical presuppositions
3 The change of function of the impulse
4 The intellect as defense function
5 The interlacing of the instinctual defenses
6 Contactlessness
7 Substitute contact
8 The psychic representation of the organic
a) The idea of “bursting”
b) On the idea of death
q Pleasure, anxiety, anger, and muscular armor
1 o The two great leaps in evolution
TIIE EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE OF THE LIVING
1 ‘”The function of en1otion in orgone therapy
2 Plasn1atir expressive n1ovement and en1otional expression
3 The segmental arrangement of the armor
4 The emotional expression of the orgasm reflex and sexual superimposition
THE SCHIZOPHRENIC SPLIT
1 The ”devil” in the schizophrenic process
2 The “forces”
3 The remote schizophrenic expression in the eyes
4 The breakthrough of the depersonalizationand first understanding of the schizophrenicsplit
5 The interdependence of consciousness andself-perception
6 The rational function of the “devilish evil”
7 Anorgonotic regions in the catatonic state
8 The function of self-damage in schizophrenia
9 Crisis and recovery
THE EMOTIONAL PLAGUE
Reich, W. (1980/1933). Character analysis. Macmillan.
The art with the theme of the “mother” or good and evil mothers by 19th Century painter, Giovanni Segantini, enlivens us to the concept of the good and bad internalized mother in psychoanalysis.
According to scholars like Don Carveth
It was Melanie Klein
It was believed that the artist Sagentini lost his mother as a child. He felt guilty with the idea that he was a cause of her death. He was brought up by relatives after his father left him with them. This means that he lost also his father. Sagentini suffered mood swings, which Abraham attributes to the repression of the image of the bad mother (the mother complex). Sagentini’s traumas are not reducible to the Oedipus complex. He was nevertheless susceptible to revenge on the (internalized) mother (and the abandoning/vain…etc. mother) who abandoned him, and he depicts them in his painting.
Abraham points out that excessive hatred/hostility to the mother can be replaced by exaggerated by the opposite: the love of the mother, putting mothers on the pedestal (as in the case with Freud). Sagentini lived with depressive guilt (of having hate for mother turned against himself), and in a way made reparation by depicting the mother & child in his art.
Art is a reparative creative way of healing, and an essential to being healthy. Reparation of one’s internal objects (e.g. internal mother). When one repairs internal objects one can feel whole again and no longer broken. This is the central theme in Kleinian Theory.
The internalized mother is important in the lives of humans. It is the relationship to this internalized mother that we are able to feel protected in this world. In time of trauma, and existentially frightening setback, it is this relationship that gets broken.
Basic Reichen Therapy. A short lecture and personal notes overview on the life and work Wilhelm Reich.
