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1. The development of the science and art of replicableinterventions.2. Focus on specificity of treatment.3. Prophylaxis—including courses on emotional education inschool curriculum.a. “The present high incidence of mental illnesssuggests that such training is too difficult to be entrustedalmost exclusively to parents.”(Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions [PPC], 1976, p. 18)
Schizophrenia is an organized mental situation, anintricately structured but psychologically unsuccessfuldefense against destructive behavior.Both aggressive and libidinal impulses figure in thisorganized situation; aggressive urges provide the explosiveforce while libidinal urges play an inhibiting role.
Page 4 and 5: Freud’s Theory of the Dual Drives
Page 6 and 7: The aim of the aggressive drive, on
Page 8 and 9: In the 1940’s and 50’s Spotnitz
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Page 12 and 13: • Individual treatment in which t
Page 14 and 15: After successfully treating a schiz
Page 18 and 19: The operation of the defense protec
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Page 22 and 23: In treating an extremely narcissist
Page 24 and 25: An excessive tie-up of neurons in f
Page 26 and 27: • Narcissistic Transference, Posi
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Page 30 and 31: • Commands• Object (Factual) Or
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