Jon Frederickson, MSW : ISTDP with a Patient Suffering from Longstanding Severe Somatic Complaints

The following transcript is the initial session with a 52 year old man who sought treatment for a variety of somatic complaints which had recently increased in intensity. This session has been chosen because it illustrates a nearly complete remission of the patient’s symptoms following two breakthroughs of the sadistic impulse, guilt, and grief into consciousness and de-repression of oedipal conflicts.