Robert W. Firestone, in collaboration with Joyce Catlett.
New York, N.Y. :
Human Sciences Press,
c1985.
406 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 391-397.
Foreword / R.D. Laing, M.D. -- Preface / Richard Seiden, Ph.D., M.P.H. -- Introduction / Emotional Deadness -- The Core Defense -- The Fantasy Bond: A Developmental Overview -- The Concept of "Love-Food" -- Determinants of the Fantasy Bond -- Characteristics of the Inadequate Mother as Contrasted with Those of the "Good Mother" -- Pseudo-Independence and the Process of Incorporation -- The Fantasy Bond in the Adult -- Defenses Against Threats to the Primary Fantasy Bond -- Reactions to Positive Experiences -- Joanne -- Hunger Versus Love -- The Fantasy Bond and the Traditional Family -- Carol -- Hunger and the Myth of Family Love -- The Operations of Love -- Hunger and Overprotection -- Couple and Family Bonds -- The Development of a Couple Bond -- Symptoms of a Couple Bond -- Other Characteristics of a Bond -- Family Bonds -- Communication in Couple and Family Bonds -- Organization of the Defensive Process -- The Primary Defense -- Secondary Defenses -- Recapitulating the Past -- The Basic Components of the Defense System -- Processes that Break into the Primary Fantasy Bond -- Idealization of the Family -- Origin of the Idealization of the Parents -- The Effect of Challenging the Idealized Image of Parents and Family -- The Essential Division in Schizophrenia -- The False Superiority of the Family -- The Idealization of Substitute Parental Figures -- The Good Mother/Bad Father -- Resistance to Breaking the Idealization of the Parent -- Implications for Therapy -- The Negative Self-Concept.