Repetition compulsion or repeating the past involves recreating the same dynamics that we experienced as children. If your childhood was filled with verbal abuse and fear, then you may be more comfortable living with abuse and fear as an ad...
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By Robert Clark (UEA, Norwich); ... The episode was often repeated, as was his habit of throwing toys away into a corner or under a bed, then struggling to get them back. Other parents have often noted similar behaviour ... This article in full comprises 440 words but only the first 150 or so words are available to non-members.
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www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=947
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Still, the "repetition compulsion" was true enough: no sooner had a client ended with one particularly hurtful person then they found another wolf in sheep's clothing. There had to be a good reason. Here's what my clients have taught me over the years.
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www.voicelessness.com/repetition.html
www.voicelessness.com/repetition.html
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A psychiatrist will tell you all about "Repetition Compulsion". Simplified, it means you have an unconscious compulsion to create the same dynamic (over and over) that you experienced with the abusing parent. Sounds crazy!
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REPETITION COMPULSION is an animated documentary which explores how prolonged childhood abuse in the lives of homeless women has set the stage for further victimization on the streets.
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Children seem more vulnerable than adults to compulsive behavioral repetition and loss of conscious memory of the trauma.70,136. ... The frequency with which abused children repeat aggressive interactions has suggested to Green53 a link between the compulsion to repeat and identification with the aggressor,
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www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
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REPETITION COMPULSION : . The repetition can take the form of dreams, storytelling, or even hallucination. This compulsion is closely tied up with the death drive. See Freud Module V on transference and trauma.
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www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/defini...
www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/repetitioncompulsion.html
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This paper presents three different conceptualizations (interpretations) of the phenomenon of "repetition compulsion" in the various psychoanalytic schools that refers explicitly to this conception--as return to, return of (reproduction) or recreation (transcendental transformation), or as a linear, circular or spiral...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/9615526
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Repetition Compulsions ... "Thus the neurosis and the psyche represent an attempt to free oneself from all the constraints of the community by establishing a counter-compulsion. This latter is so constituted that it effectively faces the peculiar nature of the surroundings and their demands.
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www.borderlinepersonality.ca/repcompulsion.htm
www.borderlinepersonality.ca/repcompulsion.htm
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