Hags and Heroes

Hags and Heroes

Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath

Publisher: Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Helpful guidelines for both therapists and clients, including methodology (strategy and techniques) and detailed suggestions for psychosexual and developmental assessment. Emphasis on revaluing the feminine in relationships.


Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides

Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides

Author: Jean Pieniadz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1000451747

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A clear, cogent, and comprehensive account of the rationale and methods of Dialogue Therapy and Real Dialogue, this volume introduces models of facilitated dialogue designed specifically to end polarization. This book offers a straightforward and comprehensive encounter with some of the most effective theories and methods to facilitate dialogue and disrupt deadening power struggles between life partners, grown children and parents, siblings, co-workers, and others whose conflicts have led to harmful polarizations. The book is based on ideas and relational models from mindfulness and psychoanalysis that have not been applied in this unique way before. This melding of mindfulness (containment, concentration, equanimity, maintaining a "mindful gap") with the psychoanalytic understanding of projection and projective identification (the "hijacking" of our subjective experiences) creates much more than light at the end of the tunnel. It engenders the acceptance of another that leads to love and insight, based on the recognition and acknowledgement of our autonomy and our common humanity in the midst of conflict. This book introduces a new, revolutionary model for couple therapists, life coaches, group facilitators, and leaders to open a mindful space that increases witnessing capacities in the midst of emotional conflict without imposing goals of agreement, reconciliation or compromise.


Women and Desire

Women and Desire

Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath

Publisher: Chiron Publications

Published: 2023-02-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1685031234

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Polly Young-Eisendrath´s Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted was first published by Harmony Books in 1999. Since then, it has become a classic read for those readers– to use a cinematographic expression – who want to use analytical psychology to shed light on what women want. This book, when first published, was described (and still is) as “provocative and vital.” More than 20 years after its publication, this book still shows effectively “how to break out of this double bind so that” women “can encounter the challenges of choice and responsibility for our own desires.” The author “wisely uses mythological and personal stories to help us take control of our sexual, relational, material, and spiritual lives.” Therefore, “If you feel confused, resentful, or trapped in a life that does not seem to be fully yours, then you can find a clear path to your true self, once and for all, with the help of Women and Desire.” This book is the second of the series titled Jungianeum: Re-Covered Classics in Analytical Psychology curated by Stefano Carpani.


The Kennedy Obsession

The Kennedy Obsession

Author: John Hellmann

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1999-03-19

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780231515375

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John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly original approach to understanding Kennedy's star power and his carefully crafted public image. Tracing Kennedy's self-creation as diligent scholar, bashful hero, and sensitive rebel-cued by cultural figures such as Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, and Cary Grant-and the images of Kennedy in the aftermath of his assassination, Hellmann reveals the painstaking transformation of private life into public persona, of a man into perhaps the major American myth of our time.


Getting to Know You

Getting to Know You

Author: Daryl Sharp

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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A lively discussion based on the ideas in Jung's essay, "Marriage As a Psychological Relationship". Complex material illustrated with everyday examples. Some inescapable truths emerge, such as that successful relationships depend on becoming conscious of one's personal psychology.


You're Not what I Expected

You're Not what I Expected

Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Combining research and clinical theory with actual case histories, this book reveals how couples can enhance their communication skills and learn how to make deeper commitments via the revolutionary new method of dialogue therapy--a form of conversation that involves having and maintaining one's own point of view while understanding another's.


Hags

Hags

Author: Victoria Smith

Publisher: Fleet

Published: 2023-03-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0349726957

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'Rich, complex and witty' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR 'Devastating and clever' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL 'Could not be more necessary' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very now. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time.


Heroes and Monsters

Heroes and Monsters

Author: Dharanidhar Sahu

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 0615175899

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Literate persons world over are more or less familiar with the names of ancient Greek heroes, monsters, gods and goddesses, but many of them may not be well-informed about them. This book is an attempt to supply information about them in a pleasant manner. While enjoying the adventures of these heroes and their confrontation with different monsters, the reader may get such facts right as would enable him or her to understand and appreciate western literatures better and mention their names in their writings and conversation with greater confidence.The hero and the monster stand for opposite poles:The first represents Order,the second,the Chaos.This book narrates the story of ten noted monsters and as many heroes equal to their powers.


Alchemy and Psychotherapy

Alchemy and Psychotherapy

Author: Dale Mathers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1317801040

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Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it, using alchemical symbols as metaphors for unconscious processes. Alchemy and Psychotherapy explores the issue of alchemy in the consulting room and its application to social and political issues. This book argues against the dominant discourse in contemporary psychotherapy - scientific materialism - and for the discovery of spiritual meaning. Alchemy and Psychotherapy has four main sections: ‘Alchemy and meaning’ - looks at the history of alchemy, particularly the symbol of the coniunctio - sacred marriage - a metaphor for the therapeutic relationship. 'The symbolic attitude’ - explores working with dreams, fairytales, astrology and the body: each of which is a symbolic language. ‘The spirit and the natural world’ - discusses the concept of 'burn out' - of therapists, our ecological resources, the mystical aspects of quantum physics and the philosophical underpinning of symbol formation. ‘Clinical Applications’ - shows alchemy’s use with victims of abuse, those struggling to secure gender identity, in anorexia and in ‘social healing’ - atonement and restorative justice - which apply the idea of the coniunctio. Alchemy and Psychotherapy is illustrated throughout with clinical examples, alchemical pictures and poetry which emphasise that alchemy is both a creative art and a science. Bringing together contributors from a wide range of disciplines, Dale Mathers and contributors show that therapy is both art and science, that the consulting room is the alchemical laboratory, and that their research is their creative engagement. Alchemy and Psychotherapy will be a valuable resource for practitioners, students at all levels of psychotherapy, analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and creative, art-based therapies and for creative practitioners (in film, literature and performing arts) who draw on Jung’s ideas.