Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing

This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome.

Autorentext

Steven Stern, Psy.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Training and Aupervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC). He practices in Portland, ME.

Inhalt

1. Airless Worlds: The Traumatic Sequelae of Identification with Parental Negation. 2. Airless Worlds, Needed Relationships, and Complex Selfobjects 3. Breathing Together: Complex Selfobjects and Therapeutic Action. 4. Airless Worlds and Couples Therapy. 5. Analytic Adoption of the Psychically Homeless. 6. On Management: The Art of Relating to Difficult Parents and Other Family-of-Origin Members.