Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy

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Jason Aronson, 2007 - 352 psl.
When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer. This can lead individuals to memorialize past sufferings through psychological symptoms and compulsive repetitions. Dr. Shabad discusses how patients, after many years of living a life limited by resentment, fear, and despair, can come to terms with their childhood experiences: a mother who can never be satisfied, a father who consistently buries his head in the newspaper. He explains how people can overcome hardships endured and losses suffered. The authentic spontaneous dialogue between therapist and patient provides the generosity and courage necessary to shed their now obsolete defenses and mourn what cannot be remedied or replaced. Rich clinical material demonstrates how mourning can bring about self-acceptance, and set individuals free to take responsibility for and live out their own personal truths. This is a deeply felt, and beautifully written tribute to the redemptive power of psychotherapy and to the regenerative capabilities in all human beings.

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Death Meaning and Human Relations
3
Conscience and the Ethic of Mutuality Human Development as a Passionate Labor of Gratitude
35
DISILLUSIONMENT DEFENSE AND THE DESPAIR OF BITTERNESS
55
Selling Ones Developmental Soul SelfBetrayal and Wearing the Mask of the Enemy
57
The Compulsion to Repeat Homesickness and to Begin Again as if for the First Time
87
The Silent Loyalty Oath Symptoms as Memorials to Ones Lonely Suffering
109
On the outside Looking in Waiting at the End of the Block and the Sense of Entitlement
135
The Evil Eye Envy and Begrudging the Passion of a New Beginning
159
PSYCHOTHERAPY THE QUEST FOR SELFACCEPTANCE
211
Bringing Heaven Down to Earth The Idealizing Transference and the Search for a Powerful Other
213
Confidence and Doubt The Therapists Sense of Lovingness and the Use of the Personal in Psychotherapy
241
Haunting Echoes of Personal Truth The Pangs of Regret and Remorse
267
SelfAcceptance and the Generosity of Letting Go The Experiences of Mourning and Growth
293
References
315
Credits
325
Index
327

Giving the Devil His Due Spite and the Struggle for Individual Dignity
191

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Apie autorių (2007)

Peter Shabad, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He teaches, supervises, and maintains a private practice in Chicago.

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