PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Maniac I, Psych, Psy

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Depression is a supression of anger towards a loved person. A child who can"t repair parent can sometimes develop a maniac personality. A maniac person defends against the sorrow of losing a god object by maintaining that the object was not really important anyway. This kind of person develops denigrating contempt for the objects that were loved, so that their lose is not experience as important. Sense of triumph and immense power is achieved. A person who can"t repair parent can develop; instead, obsessional disorder repair becomes extreme control over objects. Parent who could not be repaired is a major factor that emerges in psychoanalysis of. Primary requirement of a good therapist is to be a parent who survives despite the emotional attacks by the patient. To be to the patient, the parent who has extreme object-constancy. If seek therapy, must constantly assess the ego-strength of the therapist to endure your emotional attacks, insults.