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Pathologic Jealousy and Psychochemotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Horace B. Mooney
Horace B. Mooney*
Affiliation:
Redondo Beach Medical Clinic, Redondo Beach, California. Research Psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles
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Jealousy is a complex emotion which most people have experienced at some time in life, at least during adolescence, and yet it is hard to describe precisely. Freud (13) said it is compounded of grief over the loss of a loved object, pain due to the narcissistic wound, feelings of enmity against the successful rival, and of a greater or lesser amount of self-criticism in holding oneself accountable for the loss. Even normal jealousy, Freud said, is by no means rational and is neither under conscious control nor necessarily proportionate to the external situation out of which it seems to arise.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 480 , November 1965 , pp. 1023 - 1042
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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