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The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin,Daniel H. Kriegman

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The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin,Daniel H. Kriegman

Addressing one of the most fundamental issues in any examination of human experience, this important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, the authors provide a comparative psychoanalytic map of current theoretical controversies and a new way of deconstructing the hidden assumptions that underlie Freudian, Ego Psychological, Kleinian, Object Relational, Self Psychological, and Interpersonal theories. In so doing, they provide a new vantage point from which to integrate competing models into a larger picture that more fully embraces the many facets of human nature. Moreover, they offer clinicians a new framework with which to understand and respond to the inevitable paradoxes and conflicts that arise in the therapeutic relationship.

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0898627958

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The Story of Original Loss

Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD

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The Story of Original Loss

Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the larger natural world. In this trauma arose our existential awareness of impermanence and mortality along with the need to mourn that loss in order to create a sense of belonging and identity. The book describes how the invention of art and group ritual became the collective ways we mourn our shared existential loss. It describes as well how it is the art within the psychoanalytic practice that enables both patient and analyst to grieve their individual versions of our shared original loss. Drawing on the work of Winnicott, Loewald and Ogden, as well as art theory and religion, this book offers a new perspective on the intersection of metaphorical artistic thinking and psychoanalysis. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of poetic, visual and muscial metaphor, creativity, evolution and history of art.

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The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin,Daniel H. Kriegman

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Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process

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The Story of Original Loss

Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

By: Malcolm Owen Slavin, PhD

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Grieving Existential Trauma in the Arts and the Art of Psychoanalysis

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The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

The Story of Original Loss

The Story of Original Loss

The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche

The Story of Original Loss

The Story of Original Loss

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