Psychotherapy with Young People Addicted to Internet Pornography

IF 0.4 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHIATRY

Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1080/00797308.2020.1859286

Ariel Nathanson

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper describes common themes and developments in the treatment of three young people suffering with addiction to Internet Pornography. Central to their experience is an unconsciously motivated search, assisted by Internet algorithms, aimed at matching unconscious phantasy with a pornographic enactment. As pornography is abundant, free and highly diverse, patients are able to find what they unconsciously look for. The match between unconscious phantasy and its pornographic enactment becomes the substance of their addiction. The paper follows central theme emerging in long-term psychotherapy with these patients. It explores the links between infantile relational difficulties and trauma, lack of early containment, inability to tolerate and regulate extreme states of mind, and pornography addiction. The paper shows how treatment can slow down the addictive cycle to reveal what lies at its core. Exploring early trauma and deprivation allows for containment to replace the desperate need to avoid psychic pain. Arrested relational development can be resumed and patients can begin to enjoy sexual relationships, reducing the need for addictive pornographic use.

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网络色情成瘾青少年的心理治疗

本文介绍了三名青少年网络色情成瘾治疗的共同主题和进展。他们体验的核心是在互联网算法的帮助下进行无意识的搜索，旨在将无意识的幻想与色情行为相匹配。由于色情内容丰富、免费且高度多样化，患者能够在不知不觉中找到他们想要的东西。无意识的幻想与其色情行为之间的匹配成为他们上瘾的实质。这篇论文遵循了这些患者长期心理治疗中出现的中心主题。它探讨了婴儿关系困难与创伤、缺乏早期控制、无法容忍和调节极端精神状态以及色情成瘾之间的联系。这篇论文展示了治疗如何减缓成瘾循环，以揭示其核心。探索早期的创伤和剥夺可以让控制取代避免精神痛苦的迫切需要。停滞的关系发展可以恢复，患者可以开始享受性关系，从而减少对成瘾性色情使用的需求。

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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.