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to the way they communicate with their interlocutors. He enumerates and correlates them firstly with O. Fenichel’s (1945) classical nomenclature, and then with his own future systematizations, as in the following tables:
Ruesch ’ s nomenclature
O. Fenichel ’ s nomenclature
An outgoing person
Conversion hysteria (hysterical character)
A fearful, a ‘flight’ person
Anxiety hysteria (phobic character)
A logical person
Obsessive neurosis (obsessive character)
A person of action
Psychopathic personality (perversions and compulsions) Cyclothymic disorder, neurotic depression and cyclical psychosis
A depressive person
An observing, non-participant person Schizoid disorder, schizophrenia
An infantile person
Organ neurosis (psychosomatic illnesses)
Liberman proceeds further to combine Ruesch and Fenichel with the phases of development of the libido (Freud, 1905, 1933; Abraham, 1924) with paranoid and depressive anxieties (M. Klein, 1952), thereby drawing the following outline in order to describe the prevailing affects in each clinical picture (Liberman, D. 1962, p. 130):
Qualities of the superego object projected onto the therapist according to the erogenous zone from which stimulus derives. Depriving breast (receptive oral modality. O1) Devouring breast. (Cannibal oral modality. O2)
Emotion or feeling corresponding to the depressive position.
Emotion or feeling corresponding to the paranoid- schizoid position
Sadness. Nostalgia. Affliction
Greed. Envy
Resignation
Impatience
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