Haunted by parents
By: Leonard Shengold.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780300116106
Subjects: Client-centered psychotherapy.; Motivation (Psychology); Attitude change.; Psychotherapy -- Miscellanea.; Psychoanalytic Theory.; Medicine in Literature.; Parent-Child Relations.; Psychoanalytic Interpretation.
Genres: Miscellanea.
Description: "In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to promise a change for the better.

Drawing on a lifetime of clinical experience as well as on wide readings of world literature. Shengold shows how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a powerful conviction that change means loss."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: A literary example of haunting : Dr. Benjamin Spock; title: A clinical illustration of some of my main themes; title: Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations; title: Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode"; title: Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter; title: The myth of Demeter and Persephone; title: Another dream of death in a garden; title: A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: A second literary example : Leonard Woolf; title: A third literary example : Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov; title: On listening, knowing, and owning; title: Gardens, unweeded gardens, and the garden of Eden : death and transience; title: "The promise" and Ibsen's A doll's house and Hedda Gabler; title: What do I know?