ON AGGRESSION TURNED AGAINST THE SELF |
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Authors: | Anthony Parfitt |
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Affiliation: | Young People's Service , 24 Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NR E-mail: Anthony.Parfitt@awp.nhs.uk |
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Abstract: | Deliberate self‐harm is a common presenting problem suffered by young people. Several patients referred to the NHS outpatient clinic where I work have been able to stop harming themselves during intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In this paper, I shall discuss a variety of motives for persistent cutting by one adolescent girl. I am most interested to show how the healthier part of her personality overcame her motives for harming herself, and eventually allowed her to make use of my understanding of a sadomasochistic internal object that worked against us. |
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Keywords: | Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy brief psychodynamic psychotherapy Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies depression anxiety |
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