Personal Narrative of Psychotic Transference

  • An anonymous individual who explored their own negative experiences of therapy in the early 1990s and the wider issues over the potential harm caused by treatment.
Date:
1990s-2000s
Reference:
PP/RAL
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

An individual who suffered a period of psychotic transference chose to publish about their experiences under a pseudonym. The collection is mostly made up of related correspondence to do with the publication of Folie à Deux and the "character" of Rosie Alexander. Includes correspondence with publishers, therapists, writers, Prevention of Professional Abuse Network (POPAN) and editors. There are also notes made by the individual in a mixture of English and French Feb 1991 to Mar 1992, letters from various individuals 1994-1996, background narrative Oct 2015, further emails, letters and texts of letters, 1996-2003, a print-out of correspondence from an online forum on abuse in therapy, and Rosie Alexander's PhD "In her own words: Exploring the Subjectivity of Freud's 'teacher' Anna von Lieben" (University of Glasgow, 2022).

Publication/Creation

1990s-2000s

Physical description

1 archive box; 1 digital file

Acquisition note

Gift, Oct 2014

Terms of use

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 2139
  • 2233
  • 2236
  • 2660