1st Edition

Intimacy and Alienation Memory, Trauma and Personal Being

By Russell Meares Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Intimacy and Alienation puts forward the author's unique paradigm for psychotherapy and counselling based on the assumption that each patient has suffered a disruption of the 'self', and that the goal of the therapist is to identify and work with that disruption. Using many clinical illustrations, and drawing on self psychology, attachment therapy and theories of trauma, Russell Meares looks at... Read more
The Self in Conversation. Part 1: Self and Development. I, Me, Myself. Conversational Play. Two Forms of Human Conversation. Memory. Part II: The Trauma System. Uncoupled Consciousness. Disrupted Maturation: Dissolution Hypothesis. A Theory of Value. Feeling Creates Reality. Malignant Internalisation. The Evocative Context. Priming and Projective Identification: On Being Constructed. Satellites of Trauma. Part III: Integration. Transforming the Chronicle. Flights & Perching. Epilogue. The Death of Narcissus.

Biography

Meares, Russell