1st Edition

Obsessions The Twisted Cruelty

By Francesco Bisagni Copyright 2017
    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic perspective. The age of the cases presented in the book ranges from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty is a challenging contribution to contemporary clinical debate, especially regarding the role of analytically-oriented psychotherapy in the treatment of OCD, and how to deal with the psychiatric treatment and combine the two approaches, while keeping the focus on the transference-countertransference interplay. After the first theoretical chapter, the relationship between obsessions and thinking impairments is discussed, with specific reference to delusional ideation. A section entitled "the anal conundrum" follows. Encopresis and anal masturbation during childhood are discussed, as well as the identification of the child with a maternal "faecal object. The last section explores the connection with depression, and some specific features of sadism.

    Foreword , Introduction , Theory: Models and Perspectives , Psychiatric contributions: classifications and treatments , Psychoanalyses: symptoms, structures, and contexts , The Psychotic Threshold: OCD and Thinking Disorder , Intersections , The case of Marcelino: early adoption and ongoing intrusion , Marco and Maria: OCD and developmental breakdown at puberty , Pharmaco-psychotherapy: the combined transference , Interlude: lie and obsession—variations on a folie à deux , The Anal Conundrum , Introduction to Part III , The arrogance of power: Pasolini’s Salò , Encopresis, obsessional control, and the development of sexual promiscuity , Anal stench: Alex and the gas of solitude , The Depressive Threshold , Introduction to Part IV , Sonia: the king-size coffin—Imprisonment 1 , Fabio: the right to be furious—Imprisonment 2

    Biography

    Francesco Bisagni