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Hags and heroes : a feminist approach to Jungian psychotherapy with couples / Polly Young-Eisendrath. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young-Eisendrath, Polly, 1947-
- Series:
- Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
- Jung, C. G.
- Marital psychotherapy.
- Feminist therapy.
- Jungian psychology.
- Marital Therapy.
- Psychotherapy, Multiple.
- Psychotherapy.
- Psychotherapy, Group.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Socioenvironmental Therapy.
- Psychiatry.
- Medical Subjects:
- Marital Therapy.
- Psychotherapy, Multiple.
- Psychotherapy.
- Psychotherapy, Group.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Socioenvironmental Therapy.
- Psychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Canada : Inner City Books, c1984.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Use of stories in psychotherapy
- Importance of the archetypal feminine ; Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnell : what do women really want? ; Challenge to change
- Feminism and the psychology of C.G. Jung
- Feminist theory and therapy ; Reconstructing the dominant conscious attitude ; Animus and a woman's sense of herself ; Stages of animus development ; Individuation as a developmental model ; Competing realities in the interactional field
- C.G. Jung and Harry Stack Sullivan
- Interpersonal meets intrapsychic : a comparative dialogue ; Sullivan's stages of personality development
- Enacting the complex : hag, hero and bully
- Psychology of a hag ; Louise as the hag ; Social aspects of the negative mother ; Larry as the hero ; Hero as a collective problem ; Bully role ; Negative mother complex
- Embracing the hag in middle life
- Assessing the potential loss ; Dominance and possession ; Understanding the repressed feminine ; Love and free choice ; Louise and Larry embrace the hag
- Methodology in couple therapy
- Guidelines for therapists ; Initial contact with clients ; Strategies and techniques ; Format of sessions ; Stages of couple therapy ; Therapist training
- Identification with a complex versus enactment
- On being and doing the hag ; On being and doing the bully ; Alternative forms of treatment
- Conclusion : Vitality through connection
- Gawain and the Lady Ragnell (from The maid of the north and other folktale heroines
- Psychosexual assessment
- Developmental assessment in context.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 175-178.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-21877-3
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