You are what you remember : a pathbreaking guide to understanding and interpreting your childhood memories / Patrick Estrade ; translated by Leah Brumer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estrade, Patrick.

Contributor:

Brumer, Leah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Recollection (Psychology).

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st Da Capo Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Da Capo/Lifelong, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An important, accessible addition to the psychology shelf that explains how adulthood is affected by our earliest memories-and how to reclaim and interpret them

Contents:

Contents; Foreword xi; A Note to Readers xv; Part One: Memory and Memories; 1 MEMORIES OFFER A WORLD OF INFINITE RICHES 3; Part Two: Tapping the Well of Memories; 2 DREAMS AND MEMORIES 19; 3 MEMORY, MEMORIES AND FORGETTING 32; 4 THE SPIRIT OF OUR MEMORIES 50; Part Three: How to Read and Interpret Childhood Memories; 5 MOTHER-FATHER-CHILD CORE NUCLEAR RELATIONSHIPS IN MEMORIES 67; 6 THE OTHER PRIMARY ACTIVE COMPONENTS OF MEMORIES 80; 7 OUTWARDLY DIRECTED MOVEMENT IN MEMORIES 93; 8 INTERPRETING CHILDHOOD MEMORIES:A SERIES OF EXAMPLES 113; Part Four: Wounds; 9 TRUE OR FALSE MEMORIES? 131

10 MEMORIES AND TRAUMA 14011 MEMORIES AND GUILT 163; 12 MEMORIES HAVE A THERAPEUTIC FUNCTION 177; Part Five: Discovering Your History; 13 YOUR THREE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES 189; 14 PULLING BACK A CURTAIN 207; Appendix: The Analysis of Childhood Memories in Psychotherapy 215; Notes 229; Bibliography 237; Acknowledgments 241; Resources 245; About the Author 246; Index 247

Notes:

"First published in France in 2006 by Éditions Robert Laffont."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780786721733

0786721731

OCLC:

798535167