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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Developmental transformation of aggression within mourning; CHAPTER TWO Conscious regret in clinical treatment engendering a critical turn towards love and creativity, healing a schizoid woman and her family: the case of Sharon; CHAPTER THREE From crime to regret: an affect-level view of psychic transformation and the capacity to love; CHAPTER FOUR Tolerable and intolerable regret: clinical transformation of the intolerable into the tolerable |
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CHAPTER FIVE Facing the ghost of failures in mothering. Regret evolving into love and play: the case of Anastasia, Part ICHAPTER SIX The interaction of negative transference and the mourning of regrets in psychic transformation: the case of Anastasia, Part II; CHAPTER SEVEN The grief of regret motivating commitment to marriage in a woman: Sarah's extramarital affair; CHAPTER EIGHT The grief of regret allowing commitment in marriage in the man: the case of Oscar; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
Anatomy of Regret has a highly clinical focus, with cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of ""psychic regret"". This book highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight into the losses one had produced. The author uses the term ""psychic regret"" to capture the essence of the process of facing regret consciously. This is in contrast to the split-off and persecutory dynamics of unconscious guilt. Unconscious guilt exposes itself through visceral and cognitive impingements, which are rel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-240) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Regret.
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Psychic energy (Psychoanalysis)
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Psychoanalysis.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Emotions.
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Attachment behavior.
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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Attitude to Death
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Emotions
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Object Attachment
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Psychotherapeutic Processes
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Psychoanalysis
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psychoanalysis.
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emotion.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis
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Emotions
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Death -- Psychological aspects
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Attachment behavior
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Psychic energy (Psychoanalysis)
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Regret
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782410539 |
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1782410538 |
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1283872471 |
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9781283872478 |
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