@article{ref1,
title="The unbearable agony of being: interpreting tormented states of mind in the psychoanalysis of sexually traumatized patients",
journal="Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic",
year="1997",
author="Diamond, M. J.",
volume="61",
number="4",
pages="495-519",
abstract="This article focuses on the clinical importance of the disturbing transference-countertransference matrix in the psychoanalysis of patients whose ego development was decisively influenced by early, traumatic sexual abuse. Dissociative defensive operations and &quot;automatic&quot; identifications are emphasized in accounting for the sadomasochistic and other characteristic features of the &quot;traumatic&quot; transference-countertransference ambiance. Two clinical vignettes depict the analyst's need to take his or her own disturbing experience as an object of analytic examination, while illustrating how &quot;here-and-now&quot; transference cues are used to interpret the patient's efforts to cope with overwhelming, traumatized states of mind.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-9284",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}