Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter

by Karen Fraley, James L Poulton, Charles Ashbach, et al.

In Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter, the authors identify the ways in which some patients seek to create what Freud termed a "private religion" and unconsciously substitute sacrificial enactments of scapegoat surrogates to protect them against the pain of separation, mourning, and loss of primary figures of attachment. They investigate the function of sacrifice and its relationship to the breakdown of psychic structure and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912691574
• ISBN13: 9781912691579
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 192 Pages