'To enliven her was my living': Thoughts on compliance and sacrifice as consequences of malignant identification with a narcissistic parent

British Journal of Psychotherapy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-62

  Gardner, Fiona ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; IDENTITY; IMAGERY; MENTAL COMPLIANCE; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

EID: 4844230145     PISSN: 02659883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2004.tb00186.x     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Armstrong-Perlman, E. (1994) The allure of the bad object. In J.S. Grotstein and D.B. Rinsley (eds), Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations. London: Free Association Books.
2. Bateman, A. & Holmes, J. (1995) Introduction to Psychoanalysis. London and New York: Routledge.
3. Cooper, J. & Maxwell, N. (1995) (eds) Narcissistic Wounds. London: Whurr Publishers.
4. Fairbairn, W.R.D. (1951) A synopsis of the development of the author's views regarding the structure of the personality. In W.R.D. Fairbairn, Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality. London: Tavistock, 1952, pp. 162-79.
5. Fairbairn, W.R.D. (1952) Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality. London: Tavistock.
6. Freud, S. (1917) Mourning and melancholia. In Standard Edition, vol. 14. London: Hogarth Press.
7. Gardner, F. (2001) Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach. East Sussex and New York: Brunner-Routledge.
8. Glasser, M. (1992) Problems in the psychoanalysis of certain narcissistic disorders. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 73: 493-504.
9. Glasser, M. (1998) Panel reports on transvestism and transsexualism reported by Colette Chiland. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 79: 156-9.
10. Hazell, J. (1994) (ed.) Personal Relations Therapy: The Collected Papers of H.J.S. Guntrip. New Jersey: Jason Aronson.
11. Hazell, J. (1996) H.J.S. Guntrip: A Psychoanalytical Biography. London and New York: Free Association Books.
12. Holmes, J. (2000) Attachment theory and psychoanalysis: a rapprochement. British Journal of Psychotherapy 17(2): 157-72.
13. Kernberg, O. (1984) Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
14. Limentani, A. (1991) Neglected fathers in the aetiology and treatment of sexual deviations. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 72: 573-85.
15. Meltzer, D. (1975) Adhesive identification. Contemporary Psychoanalysis 11: 289-310.
16. Mollon, P. (1993) The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance. London: Whurr Publishers.
17. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), Online. Available HTTP: http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/six.html (17/11/02)
18. Phillips, A. (1988) Winnicott. London: Fontana.
19. Raphael-Leff, J. (1995) Narcissistic displacement in child-bearing. In J. Cooper and N. Maxwell (eds), Narcissistic Wounds. London: Whurr Publishers.
20. Sandler, J., Spector Person, E. & Fonagy, P. (eds.) (1991) Freud's 'On Narcissism: An Introduction'. The International Psychoanalytical Association. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press.
21. Schwartz-Salant, N. (1982) Narcissism and Character Transformation. Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books.
22. Shengold, L. (1999) Soul Murder Revisited. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
23. Smith, D.L. (1995) A brief history of narcissism. In J. Cooper and N. Maxwell (eds) Narcissistic Wounds. London: Whurr Publishers.
24. Stoller, R.J. (1985) Observing the Erotic Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
25. Symington, N. (1993) Narcissism: A New Theory. London: Karnac.