Wednesday, April 28, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM
In the series Clinical Issues:
and the Borrowed Sense of Guilt
Presented by Valerie Rubinstein von Raffay, Ph.D.
Respondent(s): Wendy Wyman-McGinty, Ph.D.
A pathological way of loving and disturbances in interpersonal relationships can be seen in individuals who have been the recipient of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Using case material from a female patient, we will discuss how unprocessed and split-off traumatic material, including
disavowed guilt of a parent, can be projected into the child and then
re-enacted through identification.
Course Objectives:
- Describe what is meant by intergenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to projective identification
- Explain the concept of moral masochism, how it can result from childhood trauma, and lead to the development of a sadomasochistic character structure
- Describe Freud's concept of an unconscious borrowed sense of guilt as a means of replacing object love through identification
Valerie Rubinstein von Raffay, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills who also consults for the chronically mentally ill. A faculty member and analyst at LAISPS, and supervisor at the Wright Institute, she has presented on masochism, the fascistic personality, and primitive mental states.
Wendy Wyman-McGinty, Ph.D., A.D.T.R., is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, and dance therapist in private practice in West Los Angeles, with an interest in the somatic aspect of analysis, and its relationship to the develop Supervision in Dance/Movement Psychotherapy.
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