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AGREEABLENESS AS OBSTACLE
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The author discusses excessive agreeableness as it appears in the analytic situation, the patient agreeing with all interpretations, accepting all the analyst suggests in such a way as to keep the treatment apparently ongoing and peaceful but actually semi-paralysed. This type of agreeableness is linked with what has been described in the literature under the rubric of compliance. The author aims to show the various ways in which this agreeableness is enacted in the relationship with the analyst, and then to explore further the kind of anxieties that this defensive structure tries to ward off. Material from an adolescent patient is used to describe the slow unravelling of very powerful anxieties about being invaded and taken over by her object, anxieties that lead to her having no life and no mind of her own. It is suggested that such deeply paranoid anxieties may unconsciously be present in other patients of this compliant, 'agreeable' type.
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“People high on agreeableness and low on self-esteem will have trouble saying no (cf. Joseph 2000; Judge and LePine 2007).”
From Energy Management of People in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2011) · cites this paper as Joseph 2000
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Who are the most engaged at work? A meta‐analysis of personality and employee engagement
Young, H. R., Glerum, D. R., Wang, W., & Joseph, D. L. (2018) · Journal of Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1002/job.2303 · Cited by 260
Dynamic Systems Theories as a Metaframework for Psychoanalysis
Seligman, S. (2005) · Psychoanalytic Dialogues · doi:10.1080/10481881509348832 · Cited by 120
“From a quite different conceptual perspective, Betty Joseph (2000), the leading contemporary Kleinian, describes an analysis in which she and the analysand went along in a rather pleasant and apparently productive state, but with something somehow missing.”
BackgroundEnergy Management of People in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda
Schippers, M. C., & Hogenes, R. (2011) · Journal of Business and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10869-011-9217-6 · Cited by 91
Exploring the Relationship between Construction Workers’ Personality Traits and Safety Behavior
Gao, Y., González, V. A., & Yiu, T. W. (2019) · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management · doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001763 · Cited by 94
Risking a relation: sex education and adolescent development
Gilbert, J. (2007) · Sex Education · doi:10.1080/14681810601134736 · Cited by 44
“These revolts can take many contradictory forms: sexual precociousness or a renunciation of sexual desire; passionate friendships where the distinction between self and other is blurred; isolation, self‐mutilation and the abnegation of bodily needs; risk‐taking—extreme sports, drug use, dangerous driving—or ‘excessive…”
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- Authors
- Joseph, B.
- Corresponding author
- Joseph, Betty
- Venue
- The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2000-08-07
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 641-649
- ISSN
- 0020-7578 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2118395464
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychology and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
- Keywords
- compliance, analytic relationship, object relations, fortifications, adolescent patient, psychoanalytic treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Female, Humans, Paranoid Disorders, Psychoanalytic Therapy
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