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Social trauma, with a specific reference to the Soviet occupation, the enforcement of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the struggle for survival during the "Golden Age", produces splits, even fractures in the sense of belonging to a family history, of continuing or discontinuing a tradition, but preserving psychic suffering as landmark of contemporary Romania has origins in our predecessors' traumas, unspoken or unthought, namely not worked-through. The analytic treatment faces an impasse, in the extent to which these traumas are activated. The analyst is faced with the patient's stringent need to regain his identity and family tradition in order to heal transgenerational suffering. In analysis of social phenomena reveals spontaneous attempts to recover this connection, broken by social trauma. The activation of these processes may lead to an impasse in the cure, especially if it activates the same traumatic nucleus in the therapist. We hereby propose methods of approaching this impasse so that the patient may resume his development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the study which elaborates impasse, the failure and the negative reaction in the psychoanalytical treatment of the individual with narcissistic traits. The author states that the study demonstrates that impasse is the place where elaboration of impasse begins. The author also explains the therapists' difficulty of being containing and welcoming and the therapists' reactions including the feelings of powerlessness, anger, revolt, pity and pain in the healing process.