An incestuous development: A study of severe psychopathology in a fictive adolescent from In Treatment.

Watts, Tempe

doi:10.1037/a0036340

Psychoanalytic Psychology

2014

DOI: 10.1037/a0036340

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An incestuous development: A study of severe psychopathology in a fictive adolescent from In Treatment.

Tempe Watts¹

Abstract: Through the examination of a character in the television series In Treatment, the author will discuss derailments in early adolescent development, particularly in the formation of healthy self-representations of the body as stimulated by pubertal growth. Loewald’s article “The Waning of the Oedipus Complex” (1979) will be used as the basis for considering the importance and role of the incest taboo and the reemergence of the Oedipus complex in typical adolescent development. The concept of incestual interactio… Show more

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“…In this issue, we also publish the article that won the Stephen Mitchell Award in 2012: Tempe Watts’s (2014) “An Incestuous Development: A Study of Severe Psychopathology in a Fictive Adolescent From In Treatment .” The article is a wonderfully subtle discussion of the depiction of Oedipal issues in a TV show, highlighting a compelling example of the use of psychoanalytic ideas in popular culture.…”

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The main focus of the conference, "war trauma," is a pressing issue facing our society with the return of veterans from years of service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scholarly journals such as Psychoanalytic Psychology are not designed to be topical or immediately responsive to current events; however, there are consequences of remaining safely on the sidelines and not attempting to engage issues of profound ethical, social, and political concern. In publishing these articles on war trauma, we are asserting both that the voice of psychoanalysis has something meaningful to offer and that psychoanalysis can and should work together with other psychological perspectives.I am grateful to Christine Biedermann, the organizer of the conference who served as the guest editor for these articles and provides a helpful overview in the introduction. All of the pieces are worthwhile, and some extend the boundary of what we have published in the Journal. Jonathan Shay's (2014) article on "moral injury" breaks new ground in challenging the notion of posttraumatic stress disorder by articulating a kind of suffering that results from actions one has taken rather than that one has suffered at the hands of others. The clinical material accompanying this article is intense, disturbing, and deserving of wider attention by clinicians who might treat such patients, as well as anyone who wishes to participate in our national conversation.In this issue, we also publish the article that won the Stephen Mitchell Award in 2012: Tempe Watts's ( 2014) "An Incestuous Development: A Study of Severe Psychopathology in a Fictive Adolescent From In Treatment." The article is a wonderfully subtle discussion of the depiction of Oedipal issues in a TV show, highlighting a compelling example of the use of psychoanalytic ideas in popular culture.Finally, we are publishing three book reviews in the current issue. The first by John Auerbach (2014) on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence, edited by Raymond A. Levy, J. Stuart Ablon, and Horst Kächele. Auerbach offers a model review discussion that is respectful to the authors, but that ultimately inspires us to think even more about the relation between psychodynamic psychotherapy and direction of the field. David Downing's (2014) review of The How-to Book for Students of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy by the eminent and admirable Sheldon Bach is astute and probing in its mixed evaluation of the book. Mary Commerford

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