ABSTRACT
R. Horacio Etchegoyen was first introduced the concept of “transference perversion”, characterized by the erotization of the therapeutic relationship with a peculiar type of narcissistic object-relation. The patient permanently tries to create a delusional subject–object unity, provoking excitement and impatience in the analyst. The BBC programme suggests that it may be because he was already, in transferential terms, caught in the same process of malignant bonding with Myra. Interestingly enough, in the film, the person who almost succeeds in his breaking up this relational perversion was his wife, Elizabeth. The West family represents the most famous case of family abuse, which includes the physical and sexual abuse, torturing, and eventually killing of their own and other children. Not only did they torture and kill the children involved in their rampage of seducing, grooming, and taking children away, but they also recorded their victims’ anguish, pain, and suffering while they were being tortured, to listen to on repeated occasions.
