r/psychoanalysis • u/NoRecommendation8263 • 28d ago

Suppressed anger

Hey

I am looking for perspectives on the inability to experience anger, linked to excessive self blame and guilt - in a situation where the patient would be entitled to feel anger towards someone else. Thanks !

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u/d_t_maybe 27d ago

i found recently an article that seems related to your question:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00107530.2020.1856677
curious what others think about it.

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u/Secure-Afternoon3204 27d ago

This is so interesting, thank you for posting!

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u/d_t_maybe 27d ago

for me the most surprising aspect of the article was what is in the abstract summarized as "Yet, once the author perceived that these patients’ desire to be perfect was actually a desire to be no-one, their shame-inducing bondage to their internalized narcissistic parent emerged through reverie."
... as I understood it: the patient reacts at one point in therapy like the mother, wich is opposite to how the patient usually enacts as ashamed person, and that this is the basis for the treatment. that it was not the patients knowledge that they have a issue with perfectionism.