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Author Shengold, Leonard.

Title Haunted by parents / Leonard Shengold.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Contents A literary example of haunting : Dr. Benjamin Spock -- A clinical illustration of some of my main themes -- Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations -- Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode" -- Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter -- The myth of Demeter and Persephone -- Another dream of death in a garden -- A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A second literary example : Leonard Woolf -- A third literary example : Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov -- On listening, knowing, and owning -- Gardens, unweeded gardens, and the garden of Eden : death and transience -- "The promise" and Ibsen's A doll's house and Hedda Gabler -- What do I know?
Summary Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to promise change for the better. He demonstrates how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a powerful conviction that change means loss.
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Subject Client-centered psychotherapy.
Client-centered psychotherapy.
Motivation (Psychology)
Motivation (Psychology)
Attitude change.
Attitude change.
Psychotherapy -- Miscellanea.
Psychotherapy.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Subject Psychoanalytic Theory.
Medicine in Literature.
Parent-Child Relations.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Other Form: Print version: Shengold, Leonard. Haunted by parents. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 0300116101 9780300116106 (DLC) 2006017551 (OCoLC)69672816
ISBN 9780300134681 (electronic book)
0300134681 (electronic book)
1281734527
9781281734525
0300116101 (alkaline paper)
9780300116106 (alkaline paper)