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Psychic suffering : from pain to growth / Gemma Corradi Fiumara.

Title

Psychic suffering : from pain to growth / Gemma Corradi Fiumara.

Author

Corradi Fiumara, Gemma.

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Description

xxviii, 175 pages; 23 cm.

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Creative and uncreative suffering -- Winnicott's legacy -- The alternative route that is also an alternating one -- The question of agency and passivity -- ch. Two Psychic anaesthetics -- Sara and her drugs: resisting anaesthesia -- From temporary to permanent -- Familiarity with inner pain -- The role of ideologies -- ch. Three Psychic "justice" -- A concern for psychic "justice" -- Fate as the default of destiny -- From the "social" to the "psychological" -- ch. Four The shadow revisited -- Percival and the engineering sanctuary -- Confronting the shadow -- The default of projective strategies -- Dr Jekyll: a case that is not so strange -- ch. Five The relational outlook -- Winnicott and Hegel on personal confrontations -- Empathic allies and the fixity of roles -- Company and solitude -- The wish to gain and loss aversion -- ch. Six The question of endurance -- Nirmala: patiently resisting non-existence -- The less travelled path
Note continued: Travelling the path -- ch. Seven The challenge of interpretation -- The use of metaphor -- The problem of literality -- The question of psychic effort -- The experience of relief -- ch. Eight Moving forward -- The idea of forward moving -- Negotiating (with) painful emotions -- The "teens" transition -- ch. Nine Psychic growth -- Pain and psychic growth -- Construction and deconstruction -- Repetition compulsion revisited.

ISBN

OCLC

907172628

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library