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These narcissistic disturbances and the patients’ uneven sense of self-esteem Goodsitt, 1977 correspond to the distorted object relations, namely, the pre-oedipal problems of separation and individuation and unresolved oedipal conflicts.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

The role of pre-oedipal factors in the genesis of the sexual perversions of adult life has received increasing emphasis over the past two decades.

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Spotnitz 1969, 1976 observed that patients suffering from pre-oedipal disorders usually require considerable time for the resolution of resistance.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

This left Jan at the mercy of her pre-oedipal and oedipal-like incestuous strivings for forbidden objects, i.e., mother, brothers, and father.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Developmental psychologists distinguish between oedipal and pre-oedipal disorders, and affix this diagnosis on individuals who have not made a genuine entry into the phallic-oedipal phase of development and who present inflexible behavior patterns or personal styles without experiencing subjective pain and discomfort.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

As contemporary psychoanalytic theory focuses increasingly on pre-oedipal disorders, homosexuality, too, is explained in terms of pre-oedipal arrests and deficits.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Certain dissociative disorders, like other neurotic disturbances, are rooted in unresolved oedipal and pre-oedipal disorders, dependent longings, and conflicts over drive expression.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

The pre-oedipal type is based on a strong symbiotic tie with the omnipotent mother, causing discrepancies between ego and ego ideal with narcissistic imbalance and shifts in self-esteem, creating frequent feelings of shame, weakness, and mortification.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Thus, we see the significance of profound pre-oedipal conflict, severe regression, and structural deficits involving early self and object representations.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

More commonly treated are children assessed as “less than neurotic,” connoting early traumata and developmental failures with pre-oedipal levels of arrest.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986