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Book Elaborate Selves

    Book Details:
  • Author : E Mark Stern
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-12-16
  • ISBN : 1317791541
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Elaborate Selves written by E Mark Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; the inspired object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas; and the mystic sensibilities of Michael Eigen. Readers will find that the depth and complexities of the following issues are rendered in a language that is at once both compelling and accessible: contemporary theories of the “self” and implications for clinical practice psychoanalysis and postmodernism psychoanalysis and spirituality myth and ritual as a basis for self-knowledge and group psychotherapy A fundamental text for clinicians and students of all schools of psychoanalysis, contemporary social theory, philosophy and religious thought, Elaborate Selves is a major contribution to the ever-growing genre of the interview. Indeed, the interviews collected in this unique volume offer more than an exciting exploration of a singular group of life experiences. They probe beyond the biographical to illustrate connections between personal and intellectual history and between life experience, culture, and the production of knowledge in an increasingly complex world.

Book Elaborate Selves

    Book Details:
  • Author : E Mark Stern
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-12-16
  • ISBN : 1317791533
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Elaborate Selves written by E Mark Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; the inspired object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas; and the mystic sensibilities of Michael Eigen. Readers will find that the depth and complexities of the following issues are rendered in a language that is at once both compelling and accessible: contemporary theories of the “self” and implications for clinical practice psychoanalysis and postmodernism psychoanalysis and spirituality myth and ritual as a basis for self-knowledge and group psychotherapyA fundamental text for clinicians and students of all schools of psychoanalysis, contemporary social theory, philosophy and religious thought, Elaborate Selves is a major contribution to the ever-growing genre of the interview. Indeed, the interviews collected in this unique volume offer more than an exciting exploration of a singular group of life experiences. They probe beyond the biographical to illustrate connections between personal and intellectual history and between life experience, culture, and the production of knowledge in an increasingly complex world.

Book Elaborate Selves

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  • Author : Christopher Bollas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Elaborate Selves written by Christopher Bollas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Being No One

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  • Author : Thomas Metzinger
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2004-08-20
  • ISBN : 0262263807
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book Being No One written by Thomas Metzinger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.

Book Communication and Mental Illness

Download or read book Communication and Mental Illness written by Jenny France and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This is a unique book that addresses an interesting aspect of work in mental health settings.' - Mental Health OT Communication and Mental Illness is a comprehensive and practical textbook written by a multidisciplinary group of experts in the field of mental health which will be of interest to all those interested in improving their understanding of individuals with mental illness. The book is divided into three parts. The first of these offers both student and experienced clinicians in the mental health field an improved theoretical knowledge of the methods of communication commonly adopted by individuals with a variety of diagnoses of mental illness. It also provides practical suggestions of how this information can improve the individual professional's management of patients. Part Two looks at how information about communication in mental illness can influence service provision, ending with suggestions for future policy and practice. Communication and Mental Illness concludes with a final part describing the state of current research into different facets of communication and mental illness, offering an insight into the variety of research methodology and points of interest to those involved in the field.

Book The Strand Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 682 pages

Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Review of Reviews

Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Secular Age

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  • Author : Charles Taylor
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-17
  • ISBN : 0674986911
  • Pages : 889 pages

Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Book Psychology

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  • Author : Charles Hubbard Judd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Psychology written by Charles Hubbard Judd and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self Culture

Download or read book Self Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self help

Download or read book Self help written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl J. Martinson collection.

Book The New Englander

Download or read book The New Englander written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self propelled Vehicles

Download or read book Self propelled Vehicles written by James Edward Homans and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Self training in Prayer

Download or read book Self training in Prayer written by Alan Hugh McNeile and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: