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This paper describes the psychotherapy of a patient whose treatment had an effect of overtaxing the emotional capability of the therapist to bear the work. The patient experienced efforts to contain her violent reactions as an annihilation and repetition of the most injurious actions of her caregivers in her childhoodPlease check the given section headings are ok.Please provide Organization/University name to add in the corresponding details of the author “Stuart D. Perlman”. The therapist provided special responses, inspired by the work of Sándor Ferenczi, which were found to help the patient discriminate between her parents and the therapist and begin a healing process.
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I thank George Atwood, Ph.D., for his indispensable help with this patient's treatment and with this paper. Treatments like this simply cannot occur without such help; and neither can papers be written about them.
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The beginning of this patient's treatment was described in more depth in Perlman (2006, 2007) and a version of the paper presented at the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education's annual conference in Pasadena, California on November 4, 2006.
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Perlman, S. I do this for Your Own Good: A Story of Shrieking, Disaster and Recovery. Am J Psychoanal 69, 330–347 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2009.24
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