THE ROLE OF INTERNALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF PARENTAL AMBIVALENCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ADOLESCENT SCHOOL PHOBIA.
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Title
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THE ROLE OF INTERNALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF PARENTAL AMBIVALENCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ADOLESCENT SCHOOL PHOBIA.
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Identifier
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AAI8713773
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identifier
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8713773
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Creator
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LEVINSON, LAURIE JANE.
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Contributor
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I.H. Paul
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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The purpose of this theoretical and clinical study is to expand the understanding of the aetiology and dynamics of adolescent school phobia regarding the adolescents' fantasied power over their parents; their heightened sense of omnipotence and grandiosity; and most importantly, the enormous pleasure they derive from the belief in their magic control. The study examines the nature of the internalized object relationship (between child and parent) and the vicissitudes of a highly pathological identification in determining the emergence of the disorder. One case is presented in detail because if its powerful confirmation of my thesis that pathological identifications result from highly disturbed object relations; and that this disorder tends to occur only in families whose shared ethos is one of perceiving the outside world as dangerous.;The literature on the subject has tended to view the disturbance as being essentially the same as a latency school phobia--only more serious. This investigation proposes that a school phobia in adolescence is qualitatively different from its latency counterpart, due to the increased pressure from the drives and the extremely weak ego resources available to these adolescents. The determining role of early psychopathology makes the tasks of separation and detachment from parents not only painful, but forbidden.;Treatment implications involve the necessity to be aware of the degree of impairment of ego capacities; the need to make the patient cognizant of the pleasure derived from control disguised as suffering; and the gaining of parental support. Without the above, the prognosis for change is poor.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
