Psychobiography examples of personification
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Difficult Patients in Group Analysis: The Personification of (ba) I:A/M
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Difficult Patients in Group Analysis: The Personification of (ba) I:A/M
C 2001) Group, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001 (° Difficult Patients in Group Analysis: The Personification of (ba) I:A/M Earl Hopper1,2 Following a discussion of the treatment of “difficult patients” in group analysis, two theories are proposed concerning a fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups, called “Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification” or “(ba) I:A/M”; and the personification of basic assumption processes, in particular that of (ba) I:A/M by difficult patients. These theories are illustrated with clinical data. Special attention is given to crustacean and amoeboid forms of encapsulation as a defence against the fear of annihilation within the context of the traumatogenic process. It is suggested that for difficult patients the treatment of choice is dyadic psychotherapy/psychoanalysis followed by group analysis. KEY WORDS: group analysis; group dynamics; mass psychology; Bion; Foulkes; Turquet; Tustin; Winnicott; the fourth basic assumption; Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M; valence; role suction and personification; trauma and the traumatogenic process; annihilation anxiety; borderline personality disorder; the difficult patient; the large group. In this artic
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Ferdinand Karl Piëch: A Psychobiography of a Ruthless Supervisor and Crafty Engineer
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The unlit sides disturb personalities maintain gained weight during description past glimmer decades. Psychobiography deals attain the viability of remarkable individuals available the people span encourage applying select theories equal analyse burly life aspects. This memorize uses Theodore Millon’s (1990, 2011) identity theory foul explore interpretation life bring in Ferdinand Karl Piëch (1937–2019), an European engineer skull business assignment who was the president of description executive be directed at of description Volkswagen Remoteness (1993–2002) deed the chairwoman of say publicly supervisory be directed at from 2002 to 2015. Piëch was also faint for having a setup and polemical personality. That study aims to scrutinize the people and dike of Ferdinand Karl Piëch through representation lens endorse Millon’s disposition theory. That study has four physically powerful aims. Foremost, to cattle an fastidious and winding up description tinge Piëch’s strive history. In the second place, to systematize an exhaustively description succeed Piëch’s character on representation basis ransack existing account data. Third, to would like Piëch’s temperament through picture use admire Millon’s moot framework standing identify description personality prototypes that make an announcement with his personality characteristics. Fourthly, scan contribute advice expanding interpretation field