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If we look again at these four patterns—alternation between victim and victimizer roles, identification with the aggressor and subsequent guilt, self-blame, and the seeking of object contact through perverse or violent means—we see that each is based on a psychological contradiction. It is intolerable to live life as a victim: one is weak and powerless. But it is equally intolerable to live life as the perpetrator, for then one deserves all manner of punishment. It is intolerable to be completel
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― Object Relations in Severe Trauma: Psychotherapy of the Sexually Abused Child
― Object Relations in Severe Trauma: Psychotherapy of the Sexually Abused Child
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No matter how close each of us becomes to another, there remains a final, unbridgeable gap; each of us enters existence alone and must depart from it alone.
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― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
