Case Conceptualization from a Winnicott Perspective

1
Case Conceptualization from a Winnicott
Perspective

• Eric Yellin

2
Patient Bruce Wayne

• CEO of Wayne Enterprises
• Raised by Butler
• Superior Intelligence
• Superficial
• Irresponsible
• Socially Isolation
• Propensity for Violence
• Vigilantism

3
Batman

• Bruce Waynes Alter Ego
• Crime Fighter
• Patrols Gotham City
• Expert in Martial Arts

4
Non-Psychodynamic Factors

• Raised by Butler after viewing parents murder by
  gang member.
• Resides in violent Gotham City

5
Psychodynamic Factors

• Impingement to Good-Enough Mothering?

6
Psychodynamic Factors

• Split of True Self and False Self
• True Self Bruce Wayne
• False Self Batman

7
Psychodynamic Factors

• A Transitional Object?
• Were bats Bruces symbolic protector?

8
Response to Treatment

• Creation of a Holding Environment
• Mother-Child Transference Relationship