ABSTRACT
Intimacy and Alienation puts forward the author's unique paradigm for psychotherapy and counselling based on the assumption that each patient has suffered a disruption of the `self', and that the goal of the therapist is to identify and work with that disruption.
Using many clinical illustrations, and drawing on self psychology, attachment therapy and theories of trauma, Russell Meares looks at the nature of self and how it develops, before going on to explore the form and feeling of experience when self is disrupted in a traumatic way, and focusing on ways towards the restoration of the self.
Written in an accessible style from the author's singular perspective, Intimacy and Alienation will appeal to professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, counselling, social work and psychiatry, as well as to students and the lay reader.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
The self in conversation
part |35 pages
Self and development
chapter |8 pages
I, me, myself
chapter |7 pages
Conversational play
chapter |10 pages
Two forms of human conversation
chapter |8 pages
Memory
part |77 pages
The trauma system
chapter |12 pages
Uncoupled consciousness
chapter |9 pages
Disrupted maturation: the dissolution hypothesis
chapter |12 pages
A theory of value
chapter |8 pages
Feeling creates reality
chapter |9 pages
Malignant internalisation
chapter |8 pages
The evocative context
chapter |11 pages
Priming and projective identification: on being constructed
chapter |6 pages
Satellites of trauma
part |20 pages
Integration
chapter |8 pages
Transforming the chronicle
chapter |10 pages
Flights and perchings
part |7 pages
Epilogue