Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualised Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental

by Vamik D. Volkan and Vamık D. Volkan

Book Overview

The author believes that studying a therapeutic process closely from its beginning to its termination is one of the best ways to observe, learn, and teach psychoanalytic concepts. This book is unusual since it describes a man's drastic internal psychological changes over forty years. He was thirty-nine years old when he wanted to cut off his wife's head with an axe and he was hospitalized; previous to this incident he had delusions and hallucinations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178220279X
• ISBN13: 9781782202790
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"