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The Mind Object


en Limba Engleză Hardback – noi 1995
How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love Can a person relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it? Can a person live out a life striving to attain the elusive power of the mind's perfection, yielding to its promise while sacrificing the body's truth? Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish "mental functioning as a thing in itself." Winnicott's elusive term, the mind-psyche, describes a subtle, yet fundamentally violent split in which the mind negates the role of the body, its feelings and functions, as the source of creative living. Later, Masud Khan elaborated on Winnicott's notions. This exciting book extends Winnicott's and Khan's ideas to introduce the concept of the mind object, a term that signifies the central dissociation of the mind separated from the body, as well as underscores its function. When the mind takes on a life of its own, it becomes an object-separate, as it were, from the self. And because it is an object that originates as a substitute for maternal care, it becomes an object of intense attachment, turned to for security, solace, and gratification. Having achieved the status of an independent object, the mind also can turn on the self, attacking, demeaning, and persecuting the individual. Once this object relationship is established, it organizes the self, providing an aura of omnipotence. However, this precocious, schizoid solution is an illusion, vulnerable to breakdown and its associated anxieties. Making a unique contribution, The Mind Object explores the dangers of knowing too much-the lure of the intellect-for the patient as well as for the therapist. The authors illuminate the complex pathological consequences that result from precocious solutions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781568214801
ISBN-10: 1568214804
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 143 x 227 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

Edward G. Corrigan, Ph.D., earned his doctorate. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the faculty and a supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan. Pearl-Ellen Gordon, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. She is the director of the Child and Adolescent Treatment Services at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City, where she is a faculty member, supervisor, and a member of the Board of Directors. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

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Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish mental functioning as a thing in itself.