PubMed · 7246331
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J W Riemer. 1981. Deviance as fun.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7246331/
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Psychotherapy of dissocial personalities is, even by psychotherapists, often judged sceptically. As obstacles are most of all mentioned the lack of motivation and the excessive acting out of these patients. Because of the development of the personality of dissocial people motivation in the ordinary sense can not be expected. But this does not mean that therapy is impossible. These patients are often rejected by therapists because they feel injured by the patients' rejection and by their devaluation of the therapeutic attention. We find the same dynamics concerning the excessive acting out or these patients. Problems in countertransference also arise because therapists must reduce their therapeutic ambitions and must be satisfied with improvements which-in their eyes-are negligible.
The paper presents a model of interactional processes for analytical psychotherapy with violent neurotic patients. The starting point is a special situation of transference related to the negative therapeutic reaction: The interaction is reduced to the demand for being satisfied immediately by the therapist. A model of the conditions for the emerging of violent acting out is developed and the structure of transference with violent neurotic patients is exposed. Special difficulties in the managing of transference and the technique of interventions are discussed.
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