Psychic Retreats
- Essentially clinical in its approach
- Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact
- John Steiner
- An experienced psychoanalyst
- Uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens
- He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck
- With little opportunity for development or change
- These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats'
- Into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality
- To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts
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