Psychoanalytic Implications in Treating Unmarried Mothers with Narcissistic Character Structures

See Bing James F. , McLaughlin Francis , and Marburg Rudolf , “The Metapsychology of Narcissism,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. XIV, International Universities Press, New York, 1959, pp. 9–28; Paul Federn, Ego Psychology and the Psychoses, Basic Books, New York, 1952; Sigmund Freud, “Instincts and their Vicissitudes,” in Collected Papers, Vol. IV, Joan Riviere (trans.), Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analaysis, London, 1925, pp. 60–83; Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia,” in Collected Papers, Vol. IV, op. cit., pp. 152–70; Freud, “On Narcissism,” in Collected Papers, Vol. IV, op. cit., pp. 30–59; Freud, “On Transience,” in Collected Papers, Vol. V, James Strachey (ed.), Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1950, pp. 79–82; Heinz Hartmann, “Comments on the Psychoanalytic Theory of the Ego,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. V, International Universities Press, New York, 1950, pp. 74–96; Edith Jacobson, “The ‘Exceptions’: An Elaboration of Freud's Character Study,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. XIV, op. cit., pp. 134–54; Edith Jacobson, “The Self and the Object World,” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol. IX, International Universities Press, 1954, pp. 75–127; M. Mayman, “A Narcissistic Character,” in Clinical Studies of Personality, A. Burton and R. E. Harris (eds.), Harper & Brothers, New York, 1955, pp. 307–21.

See Jacobson , “The ‘Exceptions’: An Elaboration of Freud's Character Study,” op. cit., for discussion of the relation between congenital defects and narcissistic injury.