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Anxiety and Personality: The Concept of a Directing Object and its Applications

By Karl Konig

Book information

Publisher
Karnac Books
Year
2015
ISBN
1782200401, 9781782200406
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
592 kB (605868 bytes)
Pages
100\97
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2016-06-22 22:04:41
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Description

Based on extensive clinical observations and using theories of ego psychology and object relations theory, the author proposes the concept of a phobic character structure. There are many kinds of phobias, but all phobic patients share a specific disturbance in ego development regarding what the author calls the internal directing object, which directs behavior in accordance to social norms, and evolves in interaction with mother. Phobic patients look for external directing objects as a substitute. This concerns interactions with marriage partners, colleagues at work and with a therapist. The phobic character structure is developed during the time period when obsessive-compulsive character structures are formed. Applications of this concern psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalytically-based counseling, as well as problems of therapists with a phobic character structure.

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