Transforming Aggression Psychotherapy with

Dr. Frank M. Lachmann, eminent clinician, teacher, and researcher, offers help to clinicians working with difficult-to-treat patients. Designed to avoid escalating spirals of aggression and prevent therapeutic stalemates, the process of change begins with an understanding of the nature, causes, and function of the patient's aggression.

Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., is a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xv

Self Psychology Strikes Back

1

(24)

The Aggressive Toddler and the Angry Adult

25

(22)

The View from Motivational Systems Theory

47

(26)

State Transformations in Psychoanalytic Treatment

73

(14)

State Transformations and Trauma

87

(16)

State Transformations through Creativity

103

(16)

The Transformation of Reactive Aggression into Eruptive Aggression

119

(30)

It's Better to Be Feared Than Pitied

149

(24)

The Empathy That Enrages

173

(18)

A Requiem for Countertransference

191

(18)

A Systems View

209

(12)

Self Psychology and the Varieties of Aggression

221

(18)

References

239

(16)

Credits

255

(2)

Index

257

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