By Melvin R. Lansky
ISBN-10: 0881631051
ISBN-13: 9780881631050
Despite the burgeoning literature at the position of the daddy in baby improvement and on fathering as a developmental degree, strangely little has been written concerning the psychiatrically impaired father. In Fathers Who Fail, Melvin Lansky treatments this obvious lacuna within the literature. Drawing on modern psychoanalysis, relatives platforms thought, and the sociology of clash, he delineates the spectrum of psychopathological predicaments that undermine the facility of the daddy to be a father. Out of his delicate integration of the intrapsychic and intrafamilial contexts of paternal failure emerges a richly textured portrait of psychiatrically impaired fathers, of fathers who fail.
Lansky's probing dialogue of narcissistic equilibrium within the relatives method permits him to chart the traditional historical past universal to the symptomatic impulsive activities of impaired fathers. He then considers particular manifestations of paternal disorder inside of this shared framework of heightened familial clash and the failure of intrafamilial defenses to universal shame. household violence, suicide, the intensification of trauma, posttraumatic nightmares, catastrophic reactions in natural mind syndrome, and the homicide of a wife are one of the significant "symptoms" that he explores. In every one example, Lansky rigorously sketches the development of vulnerability and turbulence from the father's character, to the relations method, and thence to the symptomatic eruption in question. In his concluding bankruptcy, he reviews tellingly at the subconscious stumbling blocks - at the a part of either sufferers and therapists - to treating impaired fathers. The hindrances minimize throughout diversified scientific modalities, underscoring the necessity for multimodal responses to fathers who fail.
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Dynamically, Kernberg (1 975), continuing Melanie Klein's and Herbert Rosenfeld's emphasis on personality organization, has defined borderline personality organization in terms of splitting and the defenses reinforcing it: denial, projection, projective identification, devaluation, omnipotence and idealization. Descriptively, DSM-III (American Psychi atric Association, 1 980) requires identification of five of eight criteria in long-term functioning for diagnosis: (1) impulsivity or unpredictability in two self-damaging areas such as spending, sex, gambling, substance abuse, shoplifting, overeating, physically self-damaging acts; (2) unstable and intense interpersonal relationships with shifts of attitude, including ideali zation, devaluation, and manipulation; (3) inappropriate and intense anger or lack of control of anger; (4) identity disturbance; (5) affective instability, with marked shifts from normal mood lasting hours to a few days; (6) intolerance of being alone; (7) physically self-damaging acts; and (8) chronic feeling of emptiness or boredom.
In conscious fantasy, the maternal and paternal object representations are, again, not symmetrical. The fantasy "I want my mother" is generally regressive and concrete, a wish for soothing, feeding, exemption from responsibility, harbor from hurt, and something dominated by the plea sure principle. It is a wish for somebody to soothe one and free one from unpleasure. The fantasy "I want my father," on the contrary, is more dominated by the reality principle, a wish for help, power, mastery, justice while one faces the world (as opposed to a regressive retreat from the world).
Strange perhaps. But the facts are as they are. Sophocles Ajax (247-2 8 1) Copyrighted Material 3 Shame in the Family Relationships of Borderline Patients Compared with the more easily conceptualized emotions of anxiety, guilt, and depression, shame, for complex and far-reaching reasons, has been bypassed in our theorizing. The result of this oversight is a failure to integrate aspects of our understanding of affect and defense in severe character pathology, especially its interpersonal manifestations.
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