Psychic Deadness

Eigen, Michael

ISBN 10: 1568217358 / ISBN 13: 9781568217352

Verlag: Jason Aronson Inc, 1996

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Many people seek help because they feel dragged down by a sense of inner deadness that persists in an otherwise full and meaningful life. These individuals who seem filled with emotions somehow remain untouched by even their own inner experiences. This is a deadness that persists in the midst of plenty, a deadness that can cripple their entire life or part of it.
This book portrays attempts to fathom psychic deadness, but more important, it shows what is involved in enduring and working with deadness on a day-to-day, session-by-session basis. Often, the therapy relationship becomes a laboratory in which varying states of deadness-aliveness can be tied to what is going on between patient and therapist, as well as in the patient's life. In many cases, according to Eigen, the emotional tone of the therapy can be the most important element. Patient and therapist work to discover what the patient is looking for, that is, the precise combination of psychic nutrients, responses, attitudes, and tones required for a given individual, or even a given moment, so that a person can begin to open, and the deadness can lift.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Michael Eigen, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where he also supervises. He is a senior member, training and control analyst, and faculty member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. The author of The Psychotic Core, Coming Through the Whirlwind, The Electrified Tightrope, and Reshaping the Self, he maintains a private practice in New York City.

Michael Eigen, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Psychic Deadness
Verlag: Jason Aronson Inc
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good