Further Clinical Considerations of the Psychological Fallout of the Nuclear Threat

Abstract

in his present contribution, Wangh offers a retrospective look at the two patients he reported on in 1981 [in his 1981 paper, 'On Aggression: The Psychological Fallout of Surface Nuclear Testing'] while at that time he emphasized the instinctual components of the conflicts created in the transference by the threat of nuclear war / he now shifts his focus to the way in which the nuclear threat affects the basic attachment of patient to analyst raises the possibility that his patients' behavior represented attempts to reestablish a fundamental security of object attachment made precarious by the threat of a nuclear conflaguration (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)