1. After reading the weekly readings listed under “Additional Learning Resources/Reading”, review the following case study and use an ego-psychology lens to describe the client’s presenting problem and approaches to treatment.
The Patient
Max is a ‟difficult patient” as defined by Green (1990). He is being followed by a psychiatrist as a private patient. The sudden worsening of his clinical condition leads the psychiatrist to adjust his intervention and to propose psychotherapy… Max is 48 years old… He is the sixth child of a family of eight children. His mother is an only child, his father has eleven brothers and sisters. The family environment is socially disadvantaged. Max describes a chaotic family set-up, and a painful childhood with dysfunctional relationships with his parents (mother perceived as domineering, alcoholic father). At the age of eleven, because he is failing at school, he is sent to boarding school where he is sexually assaulted for several years by an older adolescent. Once he reaches adulthood he drifts from one casual job to another, describing himself at this time as ‟without fixed abode.” Bullied during his military service, moving from town to town, he eventually finds work at a public transport company in a town situated about fifty kilometers from his birthplace. He is liked. He is a biker, and likes ‟to party” and be loud. He consumes drugs and alcohol.
Reference:Juskewycz, N., Dafri, F., Journet, F., Molinié, M., Thurin, M., Thurin, J. M., & Ellerby, K. (2018). The Case Study of Max. Research in Psychoanalysis, (2), 90-109.
2. After reading the weekly readings listed under “Additional Learning Resources/Reading”, describe (in your own words) what object-relations theory is and how it is unique from other psychodynamic approaches.
3. After reading the weekly readings listed under “Additional Learning Resources/Reading”, review the following case study and use an object-relations lens to describe the client’s presenting problem and approaches to treatment.
The Patient
Max is a ‟difficult patient” as defined by Green (1990). He is being followed by a psychiatrist as a private patient. The sudden worsening of his clinical condition leads the psychiatrist to adjust his intervention and to propose psychotherapy… Max is 48 years old… He is the sixth child of a family of eight children. His mother is an only child, his father has eleven brothers and sisters. The family environment is socially disadvantaged. Max describes a chaotic family set-up, and a painful childhood with dysfunctional relationships with his parents (mother perceived as domineering, alcoholic father). At the age of eleven, because he is failing at school, he is sent to boarding school where he is sexually assaulted for several years by an older adolescent. Once he reaches adulthood he drifts from one casual job to another, describing himself at this time as ‟without fixed abode.” Bullied during his military service, moving from town to town, he eventually finds work at a public transport company in a town situated about fifty kilometers from his birthplace. He is liked. He is a biker, and likes ‟to party” and be loud. He consumes drugs and alcohol.
Reference:Juskewycz, N., Dafri, F., Journet, F., Molinié, M., Thurin, M., Thurin, J. M., & Ellerby, K. (2018). The Case Study of Max. Research in Psychoanalysis, (2), 90-109
.4. After reading the weekly readings listed under “Additional Learning Resources/Reading”, describe (in your own words) what self-psychology is and how it is unique from other psychodynamic approaches.
5. After reading the weekly readings listed under “Additional Learning Resources/Reading”, review the following case study and use a self-psychology lens to describe the client’s presenting problem and approaches to treatment.
The Patient
Max is a ‟difficult patient” as defined by Green (1990). He is being followed by a psychiatrist as a private patient. The sudden worsening of his clinical condition leads the psychiatrist to adjust his intervention and to propose psychotherapy… Max is 48 years old… He is the sixth child of a family of eight children. His mother is an only child, his father has eleven brothers and sisters. The family environment is socially disadvantaged. Max describes a chaotic family set-up, and a painful childhood with dysfunctional relationships with his parents (mother perceived as domineering, alcoholic father). At the age of eleven, because he is failing at school, he is sent to boarding school where he is sexually assaulted for several years by an older adolescent. Once he reaches adulthood he drifts from one casual job to another, describing himself at this time as ‟without fixed abode.” Bullied during his military service, moving from town to town, he eventually finds work at a public transport company in a town situated about fifty kilometers from his birthplace. He is liked. He is a biker, and likes ‟to party” and be loud. He consumes drugs and alcohol.
Reference:
Juskewycz, N., Dafri, F., Journet, F., Molinié, M., Thurin, M., Thurin, J. M., & Ellerby, K. (2018). The Case Study of Max. Research in Psychoanalysis, (2), 90-109.
