So the Witch Won't Eat Me: Fantasy and the Child's Fear of Infanticide

by Dorothy Bloch

Overview

In So the Witch Won't Eat Me Bloch draws on 25 years of psychoanalytic practice. Her book is both a summary of her experience as a therapist and a disclosure of what she has learned about the inner workings of the human mind. She believes that the fear of infanticide, which originates in our vulnerability as infants, is later compounded by the magical thinking that leads us as children to blame ourselves for any unhappy development in our environment and therefore to anticipate punishment. As she also demonstrates, psychoanalytic treatment can be very effective in resolving the resulting emotional problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461630746
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	07/07/1977
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	598 KB

Editorial Reviews

This book presents an exceptionally lucid and sensitive description of the role of destructive aggression in the mind. The author demonstrates the extent to which primitive attempts to defend against it figure in the thoughts and fantasies of human beings during the various periods of psychological development. She beautifully illuminates the constructive uses of aggression in interpersonal relations.

Hyman Spotnitz

Want to understand the terror in your heart? Feelings of worthlessness? Of depression? Of murderous fury? Read this highly important book. Dorothy Bloch takes a daring look inside the human mind to reveal the terrifying fears we all experience as children out of our desperate need to believe our mothers and fathers love us, as we turn anger inward, sometimes destroying ourselves.

Lucy Freeman