A Healing Conversation

How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person.

Informationen zum Autor Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia. Klappentext * How is it that someone who has a problem is able to resolve it through conversation with another? Zusammenfassung How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 The question: an intellectual solution 2 The meaning of emotion 3 Emotional development 4 Communication and emotion 5 Communication and representation 6 The case of pseudo-maturity

Autorentext
Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.

Klappentext

• How is it that someone who has a problem is able to resolve it through conversation with another?

  Inhalt
  1 The question: an intellectual solution 2 The meaning of emotion 3 Emotional development 4 Communication and emotion 5 Communication and representation 6 The case of pseudo-maturity