Transference-Phenomena and Transference-Analysis in an Acute Catatonic Schizophrenic Patient 1 (1952)

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The author illustrates that an acute schizophrenic patient is capable of forming a positive and a negative transference, that it is possible to interpret these transference phenomena to a schizophrenic patient, and that the schizophrenic's response to interpretations can at times be clearly noticed. He also illustrates that the withdrawn state of the schizophrenic patient cannot be considered simply as an auto-erotic regression. The withdrawal of schizophrenic may be a defence against external persecutors, or it may be due to identification with an object by both introjections and projection. The author then examines the regression of this schizophrenic patient to a stage of earliest infancy for which Melanie Klein has suggested 'paranoid-schizophrenic position'. In England Melanie Klein's research on the earliest phases of infantile development has greatly encouraged analysts to study psychotic conditions of varying severity. She describes schizoid mechanisms used by the infant as a defence against anxiety which on earliest level of development is of a paranoid type.

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