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THE MAN WHO WOULD BE EVERYTHING (TO EVERYONE): THE UNCONSCIOUS REALITIES AND FANTASIES OF PSYCHIC TRUTH AND CHANGE
1Faculty member and supervisor in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and is a founding vice-president of the International Association for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; she is also a founding board member of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies.
Abstract:
This paper explores the psychoanalyst's dilemmas in treating a man who came for analysis as a self-identified compulsive liar. The decision as to whether or not to treat this man, and how to do so without getting caught up in a web of deceit and manipulation, raises issues about the nature of unconscious fantasy and its relationship to psychic truth. Therapeutic action as it involves the activation of multiple internal self-other configurations and their psychodynamic relationship to each other is also explored.
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