Why Won’t They Learn: Unconscious Underpinnngs of Corporal Punishment

IF 0.4 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHIATRY

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1080/00797308.2020.1690868

J. Novick, K. K. Novick

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Decades of research have demonstrated unequivocally that physical punishment is harmful to children and leads to later negative outcomes. Yet over 80% of parents in the United States continue to spank, and 30% of psychologists support spanking. This paper examines why there is such a disparity between knowledge and the behavior of legalized violence against children. The authors suggest that violence against children serves multiple unconscious functions that feel necessary to the psychological survival of the perpetrator. It is a manifestation of a powerful defensive motivation to maintain a sadomasochistic, “closed system” response to helplessness experienced by adults. The authors describe some interventions that carry the hope of change.

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他们为什么不学习：体罚的无意识底层

几十年的研究明确表明，体罚对儿童有害，并会导致日后的负面后果。然而，在美国，超过80%的父母继续打屁股，30%的心理学家支持打屁股。本文探讨了为什么对儿童的合法暴力行为在知识和行为之间存在如此大的差异。作者认为，对儿童的暴力行为具有多种无意识功能，对施暴者的心理生存来说是必要的。这是一种强大的防御动机的表现，即对成年人所经历的无助保持施虐受虐的“封闭系统”反应。作者描述了一些带有变革希望的干预措施。

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Psychoanalytic Study of the Child PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS-

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0.90

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.