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[Transitional objects as regression phenomena in demented patients]
K Podoll1, B von der Stein, W Stuhlmann
1Psychiatrische Klinik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf/Rheinische Landesklinik Düsseldorf.
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|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
Two demented patients, one with primary degenerative dementia and one with multi-infarct dementia, each showed attachment to a soft toy animal, which fulfilled the criteria of a transitional object as described by Winnicott. This could be regarded as a regression phenomenon, according to the basic pathogenetic concept that cerebral disease causes a dissolution of the highest central nervous functions.