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Self-Cathexis and Other-Cathexis

Vicissitudes in the History of an Observation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. Macdiarmid
D. Macdiarmid*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital, London; Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
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Abstract

The history is traced of observations made of the phenomena associated with self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Owing to personal and other conflicts in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the development of these observations was disturbed, and they were re-observed and re-described using different terminologies in accounts which have not hitherto been collected and compared. When this is done, a consensus appears which can be stated in a common language to facilitate further accretion of observation, and further research and debate.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 6 , June 1989 , pp. 844 - 852
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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