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KMID : 0378019720150080093
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New Medical Journal
1972 Volume.15 No. 8 p.93 ~ p.102
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Two Cases of Possession Syndrome
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Abstract
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Two cases of possession syndrome in female patients were presented: both possessed by deceased figures, i.e., one by her mother-in-law, the other by herfater.
After analysis of acute psychotic associations and dream materials presented by both patients during therapeutic sessions, the individual psychodynamics were summarized as follows:
The central conflicts of both patients were Oedipal ones, which had been analyzed through precipitatating events, features of psychopathological manifestations and dream materials reported by them.
The possession processes and the resulting psychopathology of both patients were interpreted as a fantastic wish-fulfilment of their unconscious incestuous drives. In view of intrafamilial psychodynamics, by being the powerful figures after possession, they now also seem to function as an unconscious representative of their weak husbands, who had been oppressed by their mother substitutes since childhood.
Various aspects of identification mechanism, which considered to be oral incorporative in nature, were discussed. During initial stages of therapeutic contacts, the transference phenomena of both patients to the therapist were characterized by their identifying the latter with their omnipotent possessed figures.
In a discussion about defensive and therapeutic aspects of whole pictures of possession processes, the author was impressed as follows: in the case of mother-in-law as the possessed, its main pictures revealed manipulative and defensive against surrounding persons, while in the case of father as the possessed, the course of illness corresponded to a delayed and dramatic mourning process.
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