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Emotions and needs / Dawn Freshwater and Chris Robertson.

Van Pelt Library RC489.E45 F74 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Freshwater, Dawn.
Contributor:
Robertson, Chris, 1945-
Series:
Core concepts in therapy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Emotions.
Psychotherapy.
Personality and emotions.
Physical Description:
xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2002.
Contents:
1 Needs and emotions 1
Rationality versus emotionality 5
Need, emotion and embodiment 6
The therapeutic task 8
Needs and emotions in a cultural context 11
2 Emotional sources 15
Phases of the alliance 16
A first meeting 19
Attachment, loss and attunement: the dynamics of early anxiety 20
Trauma, failure and non-being 26
Empathic failure with Susan: love and hate 32
Intrapsychic and environmental factors 36
Complexes and coexes 38
Collective and cultural emotions and needs 41
3 The emotional encounter 47
Dangerous liaisons 48
Awareness of needs and motivation for change 51
Entering the social world 54
Adjustment versus liberation 55
Encounter with the false self 56
Shedding the false self 58
Developing emotional literacy through authentic awareness 62
Engaging the emotions and needs: guilt, pride and shame 64
Power, sexuality and potency 69
Power, authority and identity 70
Susan encountering Susan 71
Summary: the social self 74
Emotional maturation through communication 75
4 Emotional distillation 78
Prepersonal and transpersonal needs and emotions 79
Mid-life: anxiety, grieving and meaning 84
Desperately seeking Susan 88
Initiation, descent and liminality 92
Despair, hate and love 93
Emotions and needs: the character of the therapeutic relationship 94
Love, Eros and the heart 97
The Return 104
5 Emotions and integration 109
Summarizing 111
Theoretical deconstructions 115
Endings: emotions and needs at the point of completing 117
Implications for training and supervision 120
Epilogue: a deconstructive dialogue 121.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [136]-144) and index.
ISBN:
0335208029
0335208010
OCLC:
48516018

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