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Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma book cover

1st Edition

Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma

By Steven Stern Copyright 2026
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome .  A patient can be said to be living in an airless world when one or both parents have failed to recognize, or worse, actively negated their child’s subjective experience and needs, instead imposing their... Read more

1. Airless Worlds: The Traumatic Sequelae of Identification with Parental Negation.  2. Airless Worlds, Needed Relationships, and Complex Selfobjects   3. Breathing Together: Complex Selfobjects and Therapeutic Action.  4. Airless Worlds and Couples Therapy.  5. Analytic Adoption of the Psychically Homeless.  6. On Management: The Art of Relating to Difficult Parents and Other Family-of-Origin Members.

Biography

Steven Stern, Psy.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC). He practices in Portland, ME.

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