Issues of Psychoanalytic Technique With Adoptees |
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Authors: | Christopher Deeg |
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Affiliation: | Private practice, Dix Hills, New York |
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Abstract: | Treatment issues relevant to the psychoanalytic treatment of the adoptee are presented; clinical formulation is encouraged within broad ego-diagnostic parameters. The adoptee's internal cathexis of the biological mother is identified as a core dynamic and the binary transference involving the adoptee's displaced relation to a dual set of parental representations is described. A metapsychological bias, predicated upon differential perceptions of the status of self and object representations is described and related to the adoptee's treatment. Various transference/countertransference dyads are discussed, as are corresponding technical considerations. |
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Keywords: | psychoanalytic treatment of adoptees |
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