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The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis

By Jean-Michel Quinodoz

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1993
ISBN
9780203359624, 9780203376386, 0203359623, 0203376382, 0415091535, 0415091543
LCC
RC489.S45 Q5513 1993
Open Library ID
OL1401944M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1250486 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
433\433
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood. When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can become a rich source of personal creativity. In The Taming of Solitude, Jean-Michel Quinodoz brings together the views of Freud, Klein, Hanna Segal, W.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby and others, presenting a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness, a universal phenomenon which can be observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation. Written with clarity and insight, The Taming of Solitude will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.

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