Download Author: Schoenewolf, Gerald Ph.D.

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Dealing with Character, Sex, and Race in Psychotherapy

This paper looks at the complexity of issues that required analyzing when a Black female patient entered treatment with a White male psychoanalyst. Before the father or mother transferences could be dealt with and traced to their sources in childhood traumas, the cultural transference had to be resolved. In particular, the therapist had to confront the patient’s ambivalent feelings about him as White and male, as well as understand and resolve his own cultural countertransference.

The Scapegoat and the Holy Cow in Group Therapy

Both unhappy families and unhappy groups tend to have scapegoats and holy cows, members who are devalued and on whom everything is blamed, and members who are idealized and to whom all credit is given. This paper looks at the etiology of scapegoats and holy cows and how they may be approached in group therapy.

Vampire Men and Vampire Coupling

This study focuses on a mode of relating termed “vampire coupling,” characterized by a passive-aggressive, aggressive-passive struggle in which each member of a couple frustrate each other’s oral needs for nurturing. It also looks at the vampire myth, linking it to the fantasies of dysfunctional passive-aggressive males.

Child of the Full Moon

Should a therapist make a house visit, or does this change the therapeutic framework in such a way as to make it unworkable or unethical? This paper describes such a visit and the use of a therapeutic joining technique in order to break an impasse, which eventually revealed the lies that lurked under a family’s dysfunction.

The Psychology of Hate

At the deepest level, every expression of hate is a defense against a real or imagined threat, a compensation for feelings of inferiority or powerlessness, and a plea for attention.

Psychological Factors in Cancer

The following case about a man who developed testicular cancer illustrates one instance in which childhood trauma seems to be a factor in the later development of cancer.

Schizophrenia in a Dysfunctional Family

The focus of this paper is on a case history that describes, in detail, the dysfunctional family factors, including paranoid personality disorder, alcoholism, hysteria and masochism, which led one man to being diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Psychoanalytic Centrism

A healthy individual is an individual who has a strong ego that can mediate between the id and the superego.(363 pp.)