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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narcissism
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Taylor & Francis The Blind Man Sees
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Free Association Books The Analytic Experience Lectures from the
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Taylor & Francis Emotion and Spirit
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Taylor & Francis The Spirit of Sanity
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Taylor & Francis The Making of a Psychotherapist
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Healing Conversation: How Healing Happens
Book SynopsisHow is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. The egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being.The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing. He believes that this has existed wherever there has been true friendship within civilization, and that psychotherapy and psychoanalysis attempts to distil this essence and apply it in a clinical setting.Trade Review'The question is this: how is it that a person who has a problem is able to resolve it through conversation with another? Symington's answer rests upon Einstein's insight: some relations are of the essence of the things related. Symington's relational account of persons challenges our conventional understanding to the breaking point: by reconceptualizing emotions, persons and human relations, we break through to a brilliant new way of understanding the work of psychiatrists and psychotherapists. One must expect that Symington's relational account of persons will affect our psychiatry as deeply as Einstein's work affected our physics.'- Dr Peter March, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia'Neville Symington's ideas of how a dialogue can heal are radical and profound. Written without jargon or portentousness, this book learnedly, yet clearly, explores the ways in which honest and open human interaction can be deeply restorative. It is above all a humane book, intelligent, well-written, and credible and yet its theme is a very simple one, without ever being simple-minded. It deserves to become a classic in the evolving story of how words spoken between two people can enlighten and cure.'- Salley Vickers, Author of Miss Garnet's AngelTable of Contents1 The question: an intellectual solution 2 The meaning of emotion 3 Emotional development 4 Communication and emotion 5 Communication and representation 6 The case of pseudo-maturity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Making of a Psychotherapist
Book SynopsisIn the first part of the book - 'Personal Qualities' - we are reminded that Psychotherapy means 'Healing the Soul', and that the healer has a moral responsibility for the state of his own mental health as well as the patient's. The second part - 'Professional Dilemmas' - discusses ethical values, and the author's conviction that moral amorphism has caught hold of the psychotherapy movement.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book on the psychoanalytic essence. Behind the official training the author has passed through to arrive at his present amalgam, what shines through is his unique individuality. This work is as informative as it is compelling. Without psychoanalese, understanding and practice are seamlessly fused. Clinical observations and examples from life are brilliantly relevant. Alongside these is a world-view of the psychology of man. Moral courage, which plays a central role in the psychodynamics described, is also a major presence in shaping the author's thinking and formulations.'- Leo Rangell, M.D.'Like many a creative writer, Neville Symington has trodden a long and interesting path, something that is richly reflected in this, his latest book.it is a record of a personal journey of professional development, but in sharing his 'log book of the mind' with us, Symington gives us that rare privilege of seeing the many issues, both in the institutions and in the ideas that they purvey, that need rethinking and addressing.'- Anton Obholzer, from his ForewordTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction -- Personal Qualities -- The traditions and practice of psychotherapy -- The psychotherapist's education -- The analyst's inner task -- Imagination and curiosity of mind -- Mental pain and moral courage -- Self-esteem in analyst and patient -- Transference -- Professional Dilemmas -- Modes of cure in psychotherapy -- The seductive psychotherapist -- Mimesis in narcissistic patients -- Narcissism -- An analysis of greed -- The origins of rage and aggression -- The autonomy of the self -- A question of conscience -- Psychotherapy and religion
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Aeon Books Ltd A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
Book SynopsisAn engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst. "Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?" Neville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London. This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself. This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.Table of ContentsCONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix CHAPTER ONE Father 1 CHAPTER TWO Mother 49 CHAPTER THREE School and after school 69 CHAPTER FOUR Nightmare in Lisbon 101 CHAPTER FIVE The seminary 119 CHAPTER SIX The birth of subjectivity 149 CHAPTER SEVEN In exile 201 CHAPTER EIGHT Disaster and recovery 261
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ingratitude and Other Poems
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Taylor & Francis Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis A Pattern of Madness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of the Person
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Growth of Mind
Book SynopsisThe Growth of Mind is the product of a series of ten lectures by Neville Symington. It offers an understanding of the mind and its capacity to discover truth, establishing this as the foundation stone for our judgment and critique of the human world. Although the book's field of exploration lies in psychological processes met in the consulting-room, grounded in the general principles of psycho-analysis, the book's mode of enquiry is to elucidate a knowledge of individual people.Exploring the mind's active role in understanding, the book suggests that the act of understanding has a transformative function, and that to be a person is to be a part of a community. It suggests that the super-ego is a sign of some undeveloped function within the personality. If the ego and all its functions are fully evolved, then the super-ego will only be minimally present in the personality. Symington posits that the unconscious represents an agglomerative mass in an undifTable of ContentsIntroduction: on overview1 The core of the personality2 The unformed ego3 Foundation for growth of mind 4 Consequences of mother’s contemplation5 Hypnotic power 6 Unfocussed stare 7 The knowledge of being 8 Creative intercourse between analyst and patient, between mother and child, between teacher and student 9 What is it that is unconscious? Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Sigourney Award!Psychoanalysis seen through Bion''s eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. In this major contribution to the series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, Joan and Neville Symington concentrate on understanding Bion''s concepts in relation to clinical practice, but their book is also accessible to the educated reader who wishes to understand the main contours of Bion''s thinking. Rather than following the chronological development of Bion''s ideas, each chapter looks in depth at an important theme in his thinking and describes how this contributes to his revolutionary model of the mind.Trade Review'An impressively clear and thoughtful description of Bion's clinical thinking ... I think that the clinician will find much that is helpful here; very important concepts such as the emotional links, K, L and H and their negative aspects are given clarity by clinical examples ... I recommend this book very strongly.' - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy'This book takes the reader through Bion's mature thinking, linking it to his Grid...the Grid is an extraordinarily original and useful idea. Bion developed it as a way to understand the development and transformation of thought, both within and between the two individuals engaged in the therapeutic relationship...This book is strongly recommended to counsellors who feel they rely too much on theory, but especially to counsellors unaware of how much they place their theory between themselves and their clients.' - CounsellingTable of Contents1. Disjunction Between Bion's Analysis and Freudian Theory 2. Bion the Man 3. The Emotional Catalyst 4. The Grid 5. The Myth and the Grid 5. Container/Contained 6. Alpha Function 7. A Diagnosis of Thought 8. Psychic Reality 9. The Growth of Thought 10. Transformations 11. The Study of Groups 12. The Phenomenology of Psychosis 13. Without Memory or Desire 14. Ultimate Reality 15. The Mystic and the Establishment
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Psychosozial Verlag GbR Narzissmus Neue Erkenntnisse zur berwindung
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Free Association Books A Priest's Affair
Book SynopsisThis is the story of a Roman Catholic priest in the grip of a new fanaticism - the bigotry that gripped many priests in the wake if the Second Vatican Council - and of his consequential sudden descent into madness. It is also an exploration of deeper existential questions concerning the nature of personal freedom and its dangers, the inherent frustration of profoundly different beliefs within a single creed, and the search for a personal sense of living and the way frustration of desire can lead to madness. The author describes processes which find parallels in many contemporary institutions.
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