Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-286) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- A new metapsychology for clinical phenomenology and psychic health -- A phenomenological theory of developmental mourning -- Mourning as explicit and implicit in psychoanalytic theory : John Bowlby, Michael Balint, and D.W. Winnicott -- The case of June, part 1 : finding a new identity through the mourning of traumatic loss and guilt, primal rage, and poignant regret -- The case of June, part 2 : a mournful and spiritual journey : spiritual and sexual evolution -- June's evolution in later years of treatment : transformation through mourning in developmental, transference, and life change terms -- The case of Philip, part 1 : seven generations of grief -- The case of Phillip, part 2 : the spiritual evolution -- The case of Laura, part 1 : mourning as the poetry of female eroticism : homoerotic evolutions of a homosexual woman within developmental mourning -- The case of Laura, part 2 : strands and cycles of mourning and unrequited love : modes of mourning -- Mourning and creativity : a journey through a male artist's development -- The divine, the deviant and the diabolical : a journey through a female artist's paintings during her participation in a creative process group.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book explores how a successful analyst can help patients to utilise mourning for past troubles to move them forward to a lasting change for the better, emotionally, psychically and erotically.
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Title
Mourning, spirituality and psychic change.
International Standard Book Number
1583912940
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bereavement-- Psychological aspects, Case studies.
Grief therapy, Case studies.
Loss (Psychology), Case studies.
Psychoanalysis.
Grief.
Object Attachment.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
Bereavement-- Psychological aspects.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Death, Grief, Bereavement.