standing of masochistic personality by using object relations therapy and thus "lead to a diminishing of the pejorative and gender-biased associations with the term masochism."In this regard, Glickauf-Hughes and Wells have created a pivotal work that moves masochistic personality disorder beyond political wrangling and pop psychology.The book focuses on the "preneurotic masochistic character disorder" that the authors characterize as a disturbance in object relations-
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Geller et al. (1997) studied this question.