These narcissistic disturbances and the patients’ uneven sense of self-esteem Goodsitt, 1977 correspond to the distorted object relations, namely, the pre-oedipal problems of separation and individuation and unresolved oedipal conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

She distinguished between pre-oedipal and oedipal depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

This left Jan at the mercy of her pre-oedipal and oedipal-like incestuous strivings for forbidden objects, i.e., mother, brothers, and father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Spotnitz 1969, 1976 observed that patients suffering from pre-oedipal disorders usually require considerable time for the resolution of resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Thus, we see the significance of profound pre-oedipal conflict, severe regression, and structural deficits involving early self and object representations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

More commonly treated are children assessed as “less than neurotic,” connoting early traumata and developmental failures with pre-oedipal levels of arrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

As contemporary psychoanalytic theory focuses increasingly on pre-oedipal disorders, homosexuality, too, is explained in terms of pre-oedipal arrests and deficits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Some degree of adolescent upset is predictable; upset is especially intense when the incestuous oedipal and pre-oedipal fixations to the parents have been exceptionally strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Certain dissociative disorders, like other neurotic disturbances, are rooted in unresolved oedipal and pre-oedipal disorders, dependent longings, and conflicts over drive expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

The pre-oedipal type is based on a strong symbiotic tie with the omnipotent mother, causing discrepancies between ego and ego ideal with narcissistic imbalance and shifts in self-esteem, creating frequent feelings of shame, weakness, and mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Developmental psychologists distinguish between oedipal and pre-oedipal disorders, and affix this diagnosis on individuals who have not made a genuine entry into the phallic-oedipal phase of development and who present inflexible behavior patterns or personal styles without experiencing subjective pain and discomfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

“The anorexic female’s unresolved pre-oedipal fixation to the mother contributes to psychosexual problems, including severe oedipal conflicts, and depending on the degree of regression, the pregenital characteristics of narcissism, ambivalence, some degree of bisexuality and a low frustration tolerance will be more or less evident” Sperling, 1978, p.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference