PEP | Article - A Preliminary Note on the Emotional Significance of Stereotypies in Schizophrenics: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Bulletin of the Forest Sanitarium, I, 1942, No. 1.

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Abstract

Fromm-Reichmann sees in the stereotypies, which have not yet been extensively investigated psychoanalytically, a compromise between a tendency to express certain (mostly tender) object impulses, and the tendency to suppress these impulses because of a fear of rebuff. She puts less stress on the disintegration of the personality which turns the full expression of affects into the allusion of stereotypies, than on the wish of the patient 'to remain cryptic and ambiguous for defensive reasons'.