Arnold Goldberg: Reflections on his Importance, Teaching, Irascibility, and Humanness

Abstract

In empathizing with the helplessness, Arnie was able to breach the insecurity and build up organizing structures for the improvement of the patient’s self-cohesion. Through the process of psychodynamic therapy, the patient lost the need to wear diapers in everyday life, ending in a happy continuation of his marriage, which had suffered due to his pathological diaper fixation. The cure marked an effective end to the sector psychotherapy and resulted in the patient’s deeper understanding of the utility of his underdeveloped self-functions, hence a lack of a necessary need for further analysis.”