High-functioning autism: changes over fourteen years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: part 1

Holloway, Robin

doi:10.1080/0075417x.2021.1945656

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“…I was reminded of Robin Holloway's 14‐year work with an autistic patient, and ‘Sam's’ narcissistic rage depicted in his seemingly intelligent graphic drawings. Holloway (2021) reached for Civitarese's (2020) descriptions of this as a response to narcissistic injury, and so did I with Jade, for I felt her expression of this anger came from the sort of shame Civitarese identified as having at its source ‘one's humanity negated’ during the important period of early infancy. I sensed Jade was seeking to recover her sense of pride, and to feel a connection with her maternal object by ‘identifying with the aggressor’ (Civitarese, 2020, p. 187).…”

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‘What do you do with a Mummy like that?’ Using symbolic play to disempower a persecutory sadistic maternal object

Harris¹

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper looks at the creation of narrative in the treatment of a 10‐year‐old girl. It will explore how psychodynamic, psychoanalytically informed work can help a child whose internalized narrative structure seemed built to harbour violent, unpredictable and psychopathic objects. It will examine how close and vigilant observation of a child's internalized storyline and choice of figurines/symbols can lead to more compassion and thoughtful personification in play, and how this in turn can lead not only to the facilitation of creativity around a more coherent storyline, but also the opportunity for the therapist to ‘co‐author’ a different trajectory for the figurines, and outcome. Whilst the analysis will concentrate on the patient's internal world, it will extend to a discussion about the blurred lines between truth and play. The paper will present the examination and participation of symbolic play as a highly useful device for a therapist in shifting a child's interiority, in this case enough for the patient to be self‐determining in their external world.

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confidence: 99%

‘What do you do with a Mummy like that?’ Using symbolic play to disempower a persecutory sadistic maternal object

Harris¹

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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High-functioning autism: changes over fourteen years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: part 1

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‘What do you do with a Mummy like that?’ Using symbolic play to disempower a persecutory sadistic maternal object

‘What do you do with a Mummy like that?’ Using symbolic play to disempower a persecutory sadistic maternal object

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