Limitations to the capacity to love
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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
1New York Presbyterian Hospital, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605, USA. okernber@med.cornell.edu
Abstract:
This paper is a meditation on the potential and problems of establishing and maintaining loving and passionate relationships, drawn from a lifetime of struggling with these issues in the course of doing analysis. It describes interferences with the capacity for mature sexual love as reflecting various psychopathological conditions. These limitations include a variety of psychological restrictions determined most frequently by masochistic, narcissistic and paranoid personality features. Clinical case material illustrates both mature and disturbed capability for love relations.
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