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Acting Out

Expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings, often of hostility or love, through overt behavior.
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Behavior DisordersPsychodrama

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2009
2009
A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority--X: from acting out to enactment in treatment resistant disorders.
Abstract Patients with treatment resistant disorders pose a major problem to clinicians of all theoretical perspectives… 
2009
2009
Névrose, psychosomatique et fonctionnement limité : approche clinique projective : du destin des pulsions agressives
L’auteur propose de reflechir au destin des pulsions agressives dans trois types de fonctionnement : le fonctionnement limite, le… 
1993
1993
Acting out and transference themes induced by successive pregnancies of the analyst.
  • M. Deben‐Mager
  • The International journal of psycho-analysis
  • 1993
  • Corpus ID: 24501289
The analyst's pregnancy can be considered a major organiser of the unfolding transference. In a detailed account of the analysis… 
1993
1993
Transference, countertransference and acting out in psychoanalysis.
: The development of the transference concept is described and studied from structural, genetic, dynamic and adaptive points of… 
1993
1993
Transference, countertransference and acting out in psychoanalysis.
The development of the transference concept is described and studied from structural, genetic, dynamic and adaptive points of… 
1990
1990
From acting out to interactive play.
  • B. Willock
  • The International journal of psycho-analysis
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 46509404
Many of the most problematic behaviours characteristic of severely disturbed, aggressive, conduct-disordered children can be… 
1974
1974
Acting out and unusual behavior in schizophrenia.
Typical schizophrenic acting out, sometimes bizarre, is connected with special cognitive processes such as active concretization… 
1967
1967
Anger and acting out: masks of depression.
1965
1965
Loss of Identity and Acting Out
EVERAL authors have related identity disturbances in adults to difficulties during the separation-individuation phase. Thus, S… 
1963
1963
Problems of acting out in the transference relationship.
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