Elaborate Selves - E. Mark Stern

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Auteur(s) : E. Mark Stern

Editeur : Taylor & Francis Ltd

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 30/06/2016

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 232

ISBN : 1138968528

Résumé :

Contents
Introduction

• Christopher Bollas
• Marie Coleman Nelson
• Michael Eigen
• Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli
• Polly Young-Eisendrath
• Reference Notes Included

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Biographie:
the inspired object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas...

Sommaire:

In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity, Elaborate Selves explores the life work and thought of a diverse group of therapists who have played key roles in furthering postmodern perspectives on self experience. Through five engaging conversations, readers discover how discontinuities in self experience reflect phenomena that are both fundamental to formations of human identity and central to an understanding of contemporary relationships. Throughout the strands of these interviews, theory and practice come alive in a multivocal exploration at the intersections of culture and history, ideology and instinct, biology and fantasy, nostalgia and hope, and, ultimately, of trauma and treatment.Elaborate Selves explores the postmodern concern with the notion of a multiple or fragmented self. In this context, the stories, lives, and selves of the very therapists interviewed are seen to reflect predicaments and tensions of the culture at-large. Each interview explores a therapist's unique contribution to the field while making connections between efforts and theories that at a first glance appear remarkably diverse. Among these are: the constructivism of Jungian Buddhist and feminist Polly Young-Eisendrath...