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Psychoanalytical Aspects of Morbid Jealousy in Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas Freeman*
Affiliation:
The Anna Freud Centre, London

Abstract

During the course of the psychoanalytical treatment of patients whose morbid jealousy is of the non-psychotic type it is possible to identify the unconscious causes of the pathological mental state. This material can provide an insight into the unconscious determinants of the contents of delusions of jealousy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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