ABSTRACT This article identifies a disorder of the self that is common to a number of clinical presentations, which all share the idea that the patient presenting him- or herself for psychological help is a “loser” who may not be able to be helped by psychotherapy. Resisting the reduction of this idea to a single complex bedeviling the patient, the author suggests instead that this idea is the consciousness that emerges, pathologically, from a complexity, a nest of linked complexes, which has the power to color all individual efforts to work on any of the patient’s issues. The author, a Jungian analyst, gives cultural examples of how this complexity can also be seen in films, in artists, and in political life. He shows how in psychotherapy the loser complexity can be resolved or at least reduced through a collaborative approach that takes therapist and patient through a series of stages that are described and explained.

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关于失败者的复杂性

摘要 本文确定了许多临床表现中常见的自我障碍，这些表现都认为患者向自己寻求心理帮助是一个“失败者”，可能无法通过心理治疗获得帮助。 . 作者反对将这个想法简化为困扰患者的单一复合体，相反，作者建议这个想法是病态地从复杂性中出现的意识，一个相互关联的复合体的巢穴，它有能力为所有个人努力工作着色关于患者的任何问题。这位荣格分析家的作者给出了文化例子，说明这种复杂性如何也可以在电影、艺术家和政治生活中看到。