Article Announcement by Daniel Shaw (USA)

Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis,12(1):16-24.

Our patients whose developmental histories were marked by cumulative relational trauma are often left in a state of endless longing for the abusive, depriving parent’s love. The withheld love is felt as a fatal impediment to living, and some kind of magical reparation from the abuser is imagined as the only hope of being brought back to life. What is often dissociated by these patients is the intense frustrated rage they feel. The author suggests that it is critical to identify this rage and its destructive impact on the patient, her relationships and on the therapy, in order for the grip of the fantasy of magic reparation to be released.

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Daniel Shaw LCSW