Table of Contents

Wurmser, Negative Therapeutic Reaction and the Compulsion to Disappoint the Other. Orgel, On Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Schmithuesen, "Time That No One Can Count, Always Begins Anew": Thoughts Concerning the Function and Meaning of the So-called Negative Therapeutic Reaction from the Perspective of Time Standing Still. Hirsch, Negative Therapeutic Reaction in the Light of Object Relations Theory. Jarass, "I Have to Destroy Everything I Love": Totalitarian Conscience—Acted Out and Understood. Frommer, "Omnipresence," a Masked Cause of Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Considerations on the Long Shadow of Totalitarian Repression. Schmidt-Hellerau, The Anxiety in the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Ornstein, The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Revisited. Bornstein, An Addition to the Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and Clinical Masochism.

About the Author

Léon Wurmser, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society. His publications include The Power of the Inner Judge (Jason Aronson, 2000), Jealousy and Envy (with Heidrun Jarass; Analytic Press, 2007), and Torment Me, but Don't Abandon Me! (Jason Aronson, 2007). He maintains a private practice in Towson, MD.

Heidrun Jarass, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis of the German Psychoanalytic Society, Nurnberg. A psychoanalyst in private practice, she has been active in psychoanalytic research, focusing on the psychodynamic processes in supervision, and has presented her work with severely ill patients at international meetings. She co-edited (with Leon Wurmser) Jealousy and Envy (Analytic Press, 2007).