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Macdiarmid D. Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation. Br J Psychiatry. 1989;154:844-52doi: 10.1192/bjp.154.6.844.
Macdiarmid, D. (1989). Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 154844-52. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.154.6.844
Macdiarmid, D. "Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation." The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science vol. 154 (1989): 844-52. doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.154.6.844
Macdiarmid D. Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation. Br J Psychiatry. 1989 Jun;154:844-52. doi: 10.1192/bjp.154.6.844. PMID: 2688788.
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Br J Psychiatry. 1989 Jun;154:844-52. doi: 10.1192/bjp.154.6.844.

Self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Vicissitudes in the history of an observation.

The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

D Macdiarmid

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  1. Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital, London.

PMID: 2688788 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.154.6.844

Abstract

The history is traced of observations made of the phenomena associated with self-cathexis and other-cathexis. Owing to personal and other conflicts in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the development of these observations was disturbed, and they were reobserved and re-described using different terminologies in accounts which have not hitherto been collected and compared. When this is done, a consensus appears which can be stated in a common language to facilitate further accretion of observation, and further research and debate.

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