{"product_id":"the-misuse-of-persons-analyzing-pathological-dependency-9780881631395","title":"The Misuse of Persons: Analyzing Pathological Dependency","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this major contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis  Stanley Coen illuminates a heretofore undescribed character structure especially resistant to analytic process. Pathologically dependent patients  for Coen  are identified not by surface character traits  but by their response to the intrapsychic demands of analysis. Such patients remain in treatment  sometimes contentedly  sometimes amid rebukes and complaints  but they do not profit from it. Their inability to use insight  especially in the transference  is matched by a proclivity for sadomasochistic enmeshment. In analysis  this tendency translates into a continuing dependent attachment to the analyst. In exploring the genetic roots of pathological dependency  Coen ranges beyond extant trauma theories in describing a pattern of parent-child interaction in which repetitive behavioral enactments substitute for the acceptance and resolution of conflicts  both intrapsychic and interpersonal. In analysis  pathologically dependent patients use the analyst as they have come to use significant others throughout their lives: as part of a defensive structure characterized by repetitive enactments and a refusal to face what is wrong with them. This \"misuse of others\" is infused with destructiveness  hostility  and rage  and the analyst necessarily becomes the object of these powerful emotions. With such patients  then  the road to therapeutic progress invariably passes through the analysis of mutual transferential and countertransferential hate  the patients tempting invitations to collusion and avoidance notwithstanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651711852597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0881631396","price":177.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780881631395.jpg?v=1781838021","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-misuse-of-persons-analyzing-pathological-dependency-9780881631395","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}