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Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Process

Narcissism, Mania, and Analysts’ Envy of Patients

Pages 408-420 | Published online: 23 Jun 2014
 

Abstract

It is not uncommon for analysts to feel envy toward patients who have achieved significant rewards or acclaim for their work. Highly successful individuals in all fields often display both narcissistic and manic qualities. Analysts all too often destructively exaggerate these qualities into the realm of the diagnosed pathological as one way of dealing with this envy.

Notes

2. 1I have previously written about this patient using a different pseudonym for him (Hirsch, Citation2007).

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Irwin Hirsch

Irwin Hirsh is on the faculty and supervisor, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Distinguished visiting faculty, Wm. Alanson White Institute; Adj. Professor of psychology and supervisor, N.Y.U. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Author, Goethe Award winning book: “Coasting in the Countertransference: Conflicts of Self-Interest between Analyst and Patient,” 2008.

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