Euripides' Medea: a psychodynamic model of severe divorce pathology |
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| Authors: | J W Jacobs |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. 10461. |
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| Abstract: | Analysis of Euripides' play, Medea, and a divorcing family suggests that divorce between a narcissistically scarred, embittered, dependent woman and a pathologically narcissistic, devaluing man may lead to the mother's attempt to sever father-child contact as a means of revenging the injury inflicted on her by the loss of a selfobject, her hero-husband. |
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