A Psychotherapeutic Investigation of Nagging
Dean, E.S.
Psychoanalytic Review 51: 555-561
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2836 PMID: 14218752 Document Number: 8082
Nagging individuals are often found to be weak, insecure, and fearful. Their nagging disguises a basic feeling of weakness and provides an illusion of power and superiority. Such are the conclusions that one draws when seeing nagging persons in psychotherapy. For these individuals sometimes do seek psychiatric treatment. They often complain of anxiety, depression, nervousness, and instability. Rarely do they speak of themselves as given to nagging. This problem only gradually becomes apparent to a therapist. One should refrain from using this term in speaking with patients-unless it has become acceptable to the patient-because its invidious implications have a harmful effect on the therapeutic relationship.
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