Role-reversal: a somewhat neglected mirror of heritages of the past
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Counter-transference, Cure, Talking, TransferenceAbstract
Within a clinical-theoretical framework focused on transference-countertransference dynamics, the authors reflect on role-reversal and on why this phenomenon has long been neglected in literature. This primitive inter-intra-psychic process, often at the forefront in our practice, will be discussed in its main features (the patient’s unconscious identification with parents’ defences and psychic culture and concomitant dissociation in the analyst of suffering aspects of the infant self), signalling how the enactment can be an inevitable element which, bringing into play the dissociated object-relationships of the past, becomes a source of transformative understanding
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