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Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism

by Jack Novick , Kerry Kelly Novick
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780765705440
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Jason Aronson
  • Publisher Imprint: Jason Aronson
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 432
  • Original Price: GBP 59.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 558 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis

Using data from infant observation, and child, adolescent, and adult analyses, the Novicks explicate a multidimensional, developmental theory of sadomasochism that has been recognized as a major innovation. According to the Novicks, each phase of development contributes to the clinical manifestations of sadomasochism. Painful experiences in infancy are transformed into a mode of attachment, then into an embraced marker of specialness and unlimited destructive power, then into a conviction of equality with oedipal parents, and, finally, into an omnipotent capacity to gratify infantile wishes through the coercion of others. By school age, these children have established a magic omnipotent system of thought which undermines alternate means of competent interactions with reality.

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