Discussion Paper Added: Allelopathy and the Depressive Object
Posted on Wednesday 14 November @ 15:57:11 |  | 

A discussion paper by Edward Gibeau, Ed.D. was added to the The Michigan Psychoanalytic Council site today. Here is a description of the file:

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We have all felt hopeless, helpless, and ineffectual in our day to day work with depressed persons struggling to survive the ravages inflicted on them by their own depressive objects. This may be especially true in our attempts to relate with those individuals who give the impression that they are surrounded by a fault, schism, dead space or some other type of barrier to being connected with, or touched by the analyst or the analytic process. These are, I believe, some of the most difficult times for both patient and therapist in the treatment of depression.

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