In Treatment of the Masochistic Personality: An Interactional-Object Relations Approach, Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes and Marolyn Wells use contemporary psychoanalytic thinking to probe the functions of masochism underlying human interaction-particularly love relations.
Rare and insightful understanding of the brutally defeated child whose trust and will were broken and of the self-defeating and self-destructive adult whose only expression of Self left is "longsuffering" passive-aggressive defiance and spite -- and "winning by losing." See also the extraordinarily insightful and compassionate Character Styles by Stephen M. Johnson.
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