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The Joy of Torment: Understanding and Managing Sadomasochism

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Lisa Crilley

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the editor and contributors
Introduction

PART I: CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS
1. Freud’s changing views on sadomasochism
Tom DeRose

2. Freudian sadomasochism and its contemporary incarnations
Louis Rothschild

3. Masochism and the delusion of omnipotence from a developmental perspective
Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick

PART II: CULTURAL ASPECTS
4. Misogyny, sadomasochism, and pornography
Asmita Sharma and Prachi Akhavi

5. The strategic confluence of altruism and sadomasochism in martyrdom
Arsalan Malik

6. Society, sadism, and a satirical take on the family
Victoria Curea

PART III: CLINICAL ASPECTS
7. Childhood grievance, defensive idealization, and sadomasochistic failure of mourning
Lisa Crilley

8. Sadomasochism in couples psychotherapy
Philip A. Ringstrom

9. Sadomasochism, sexual excitement, and perversions
Otto Kernberg

10. On cruelty
Salman Akhtar

11. Analytic struggles and sadistic maneuvers
Nilofer Kaul

12. E-sadomasochism and clinical psychoanalysis
Ruth Axelrod-Praes and Benny Weiss-Steider

References
Index