{"product_id":"airless-worlds-and-the-restoration-of-psychic-breathing-9781032952901","title":"Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as \u003ci\u003eairless world syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA patient can be said to be \u003ci\u003eliving in an airless world\u003c\/i\u003e when one or both parents have failed to recognize, or worse, actively negated their childâs subjective experience and needs, instead imposing their subjective reality on the child such that the child had no choice but to adopt the parentsâ reality as their own. When a childâs mind is captured in this wayâwhat Stern calls \u003ci\u003eidentification with negationâ\u003c\/i\u003ethe result is an unconscious bondage to the internalized negating other which can be disabling to the senses of self, personal agency and realness. With extended clinical examples in every chapter, Stern brings the reader into the depths of each patientâs airless world and the co-created \u003ci\u003eneeded\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003erelationship\u003c\/i\u003e that ultimately, fitfully transforms it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith rich clinical vignettes and in a detailed yet accessible style, this book is invaluable to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359322014039,"sku":"9781032952901","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/airless-worlds-and-the-restoration-of-psychic-breathing-9781032952901","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}