TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Role-reversal: a somewhat neglected mirror of heritages of the past
JO  - American journal of psychoanalysis
A1  - Borgogno, Franco
A1  - Vigna-Taglianti, Massimo
SP  - 313
EP  - 324
VL  - 68
IS  - 4
N2  - Within a clinical-theoretical framework focused on transference-countertransference dynamics, the authors reflect on role-reversal and on the reasons it has been neglected for a long time in literature. This primitive inter- and intra-psychic process, often at the forefront in our practice, will be discussed in its principal aspects (patient's unconscious identification with parents' psychic culture and concomitant dissociation of the infant part of the self), signaling how the enactment can be an inevitable element which, putting into play the past dissociated object relationships, becomes a source of mutative understanding.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1573-6741
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2008.31
ID  - ref1
ER  -