Voluntary galley slaves. Essays on self-soothing processes

Some people seem voluntary slaves due to the obsessive repetition of the same action that does not give them the opportunity to think and dream. They themselves sentenced themselves - become voluntary gallery. The book of Gerard Two is devoted to psychoanalytic understanding of cases of adult therapy demonstrating a compulsive attraction to a deadly obsessive repetition, as well as children whose mental functioning is like the behavior of adults "gallers". In his analysis, the author relies on the economic theory of Freud and the metapsychological concepts of leading representatives of the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics, while developing its own vision of the problem, primarily in relation to the role of intrinsic techniques to reduce the excitation associated with traumatic reality