Full Article Every once in a while I come across a research article that opens my mind. I have come across the idea of “subpersonalities” before, and have recently been researching on the “repetition compulsion”, amongst other things psychological. This article really stuck out from the crowd in offering a concise, coherent, and useful model [...]
The Repetition Compulsion – revisited
17/04/2009
I have come across several different possible explanations for the repetition compulsion in the literature. There is a considerable ambiguity about what repetition compulsion actually covers, since some would include PTSD style flashbacks and nightmares in the category. For me, repetition compulsion requires that an individual’s actual behaviour appears directed towards replicating an earlier trauma. [...]
Repetition Compulsion – “You can’t hold back the past…”
16/04/2009
Repetition compulsion is the term used by Freud to describe the mind’s tendency to repeat traumatic events. “The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it…. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead [...]
