Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents ...
Dr. Burke exposes the obstacles in the way of post-abortion healing, reviews the full range and depth of post-abortion adjustment problems and how to resolve them.
This book features contributions from twenty six leading experts that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style, from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives.
Each year over a million Americans are convinced by their therapists (or by misguided 'self-help' books) that their childhoods were not as happy as they thought - that they harboured repressed memories of horrendous abuse by their parents, other relatives, and even satanic cults. Their identities are destroyed, their pasts rewritten, and their ...
Miller believes that any person who so wishes can according to his or her capabilities, follow the path she has taken: to feel the banished child within and let that child speak and condemn the past abuse in order to liberate his or her life.
There is a dangerous practice creeping into the modern bedroom. Millions of couples are having sex when they really want and need something else: affection, intimacy, reassurance, revenge, escape from boredom or discharge of anger. The authors have coined the term "non-sexual" sex to describe this practice of using sex as a vehicle to express or ...
From Isabel Archer to Maisie to Daisy Miller, female characters dominate the work of Henry James - and, often, critical discussion of James's work. Donatella Izzo shifts that discussion to a different, more revealing plane in this original, extensive, and persuasive interpretation of James's short fiction. By redirecting criticism from a ...
Fowler provides a psychoanalytic treatment of Faulkner's work, employing a poststructuralist feminist methodology to assess the symbolic meanings of race and gender in "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying", "Light In August", "Absalom, Absalom!", and "Go Down, Moses".
Two essays by Frederick Crews--one on Freud and the other on recovered memories--previously published in "The New York Review of Books", as well as the flood of letters that these essays provoked.
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands on this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to ...
Two essays by Frederick Crews--one on Freud and the other on recovered memories--previously published in "The New York Review of Books", as well as the flood of letters that these essays provoked.
Annie is training to be a priest, but as her mind wanders and doubts emerge about her choice of career, she plots and writes a highly-sexed novel about a novice priest and his flighty girlfriend. This narrative runs alongside Annie's.
In this book a psychoanalyst discusses the rationale for selecting classical or nonclassical psychoanalytic techniques with patients of various types. Myerson explores the nature of the work that can be accomplished in each type of analysis, pointing out the part played by the therapeutic relationship. He emphasizes the significance of the patient ...
This book demonstrates the inadequacy of current psychopathological theories - notably psychoanalysis, behaviourism, and medical models - for the explanation of neurosis and psychosis. In their place, the author proposes a new theory, which he has termed "psychobizarreness". The work also investigates the research literature on fear, and suggests ...
In Freudian Repression, Michael Billig presents an original reformulation of Freud's concept of repression, showing that in his theory of the unconscious he fails to examine how people actually repress shameful thoughts. Drawing on recent insights from discursive psychology, Billig suggests that in learning to speak we also learn what not to say: ...
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it
A study of how families are being torn apart and adult children turned against their parents by mesmerizing but deluded analysts and social workers. Using real life cases, the book examines the phenomenon of Repressed Memory Syndrome.
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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
