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compulsion
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compulsion
Psychiatry an inner drive that causes a person to perform actions, often of a trivial and repetitive nature, against his or her will
compulsion [kəm′pəl·shən]
(psychology)
An irresistible, impulsive act performed by an individual against his conscious will and usually arising from an obsession.
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While, it is true, children tend to play obsessively, by working a narrative or procedure to death, this repetition compulsion is never as schooled as what comes across here, which mainly has a forced quality, though it thus also reflects the important difference between transference and early object relations, which Melanie Klein singled out as the outside chance of therapeutic success in analytic treatment.
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This intervention, part of a longer-term strategy of helping to build trusting relationships for the patient, is based on the belief that behavioral crises and the dissociation that accompanies them are triggered by repetition compulsion episodes in people who were victims of abuse or betrayal, Dr.
Trust building sparks recovery from posttraumatic crisis by Zoler, Mitchel L. / Clinical Psychiatry News
Psychoanalysts have a term for this: repetition compulsion.
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