The impossible choice madness or knowing the unbearable truth : a psychoanalytic journey in search of sanity / Tova Zaltz.

Author/creator Zaltz, Tova
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents In the begining: a stone -- Separating inside from outside -- Take out the badness: I want to be good -- From dead ends to did -- ALternative ways to communicate: writing -- How can I know that we are real? -- The story of incest :keeping it all in the family -- The danger of the good object -- On incest, blindness and paranoia -- The hospital dream -- The silence is not to be battled: but understood -- The death of dad: loneliness -- On pimps and prostitutes -- When trauma has no witness -- Enactment instead of memory -- From hanging doll to dath by hanging -- The cult dream -- Alice in horrorland -- The mysterious garden -- Enter: the minister -- From pregnancy to birth.
Abstract "'The Impossible Choice' offers readers a narrative of the relationship between a therapist and her patient who desperately wants to discover her past. With no memory and no way of knowing what was real, her long therapeutic journey was to last 26 years, half her lifetime. Her only reality was the life she lived in the presence of her therapist. The narrative unfolds to reveal a story of horrific events that must be hidden, yet can no longer be kept secret. It sheds light on how chronic long-term traumatisation within a closed family circle can create madness in a vulnerable and lonely child, and helps reader gain an understanding of the enigmatic phenomena of Dissociated Identity Disorder"-- Provided by publisher.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018022710
ISBN9781138327283 (hardback)
ISBN9781138327290 (paperback)
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