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Ciardiello, J. (1983). Meeting of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal. Rev., 70:633-636.

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(1983). Psychoanalytic Review, 70:633-636

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Meeting of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis

Jean Ciardiello

March 25, 1983. PSYCHOTIC ANXIETY UNDERLYING SEXUAL PERVERSION. Joyce McDougall, M.D.

Charlotte Schwartz opened the scientific meeting of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis by drawing a sociological parallel to sexual perversion in the individual. She quoted from Terrence du Prés' book, The Survivor, and told of frequent “deaths by excrement” in the concentration camps of World War II.

Ms. Schwartz was followed by Miriam Altman who introduced Dr. McDougall by telling about her work at the Paris Institute of Psychoanalysis with a nine-and-a-half-year-old psychotic boy named Sammy (Dialogue with Sammy) and restating Dr. McDougall's major theses in Plea for a Measure of Abnormality.

Using Bion's concept of the need object and Melanie Klein's ideas about the depressive position, Dr. McDougall elaborated Freud's formulation regarding the early psychic origins of sexual perversion. Freud saw changes in the heterosexual and genital nature of sexual

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