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
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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).
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- 2139
- 2233
- 2236
- 2660