Symmetric frenzy and catastrophic change: A consideration of primitive mental states in the wake of Bion and Matte Blanco

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 529-549

  Lombardi, Riccardo ^a  

^a Italian Psychoanalytic Society   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bion; Infinite; Matte Blanco; Mental links; Psychosis; Representation; Space time; Symmetric transference; Thinking; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; DISASTER; EMOTION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; THINKING; VIOLENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EGO DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FREUDIAN THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; THINKING; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67949083593     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: 17458315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00152.x     Document Type: Review

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