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Beyond the Frustrated Self : Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life.

By Barbara , Dowds

Book information

Publisher
Karnac Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781782411895, 1782411895
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
797 kB (815842 bytes)
Pages
305\305
Time added
2015-06-28 17:07:17
Attachment behavior Philosophy Modern 19th century

Description

This book foregrounds the life struggles of a single ""frustrated"" individual so that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The approach is integrative, enlisting a variety of models of therapy - psychodynamic, body-oriented, Gestalt, existential - as well as neuroscience, philosophy, and literature. The book also shows how developmental deficits interact with socio-cultural tendencies to amplify existential difficulties. The ""frustration"" of the title is traced to avoidant attachment - pretending not to need others. In Brenda, the case study whose experie.  Read more...

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