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NEGATIVE THERAPEUTIC REACTION [1 record]

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Record 1 2002-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

In the psychoanalytic literature, negative therapeutic reactions have been related to a variety of dark psychic forces: Thanatos (the death drive), the compulsion to repeat, and the dread superego.

CONT

There are four specific responses to guilt: the wishes to confess, to seek punishment, to seek absolution, and to make restitution. The first three responses are the motives for the superego resistance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Forme de résistance à l'analyse, caractérisée par un état d'aggravation témoignant de la culpabilité inconsciente du sujet [...]

Spanish

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