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Lomas, P. (1961). Family Role and Identity Formation. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 42:371-380.

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(1961). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 42:371-380

Family Role and Identity Formation

Peter Lomas Author Information

In this paper a patient will be described whose illness can be best understood as a failed attempt to establish an identity of her own as opposed to one thrust upon her by her family's need.

The Patient

Miss F. came to analysis at the age of 30, having been psychiatrically ill for six years. Her main presenting symptoms were phobic, and included fears of travelling and of being poisoned. Both fears were very incapacitating and resulted in an inability to work. She lived with her mother and father, never went out except occasionally to the local library, and could not eat or drink anything that her mother had not first tasted. She attended for treatment in a taxi, accompanied by her mother.

Her greatest fear was of blindness, and she was also afraid of insanity and was unsure of the correctness of her perceptions. She had been temporarily certified once on account of an anorexia nervosa which endangered her life, and had spent several months in a mental hospital. She thought th

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