If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust?

Deals with the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. In this book, several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based on information gleaned from the author's life and writings.

Informationen zum Autor Dr Leonard Shengold is a training analyst and former Director of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (affiliated with NYU School of Medicine, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry). He has published eight books including 'Soul Murder' (1989), 'Haunted by Parents' (2006), and over seventy-five papers on clinical, theoretical and applied psychoanalytic topics. He graduated from Columbia College and Downstate New York Medical School, was an officer in both the American and the International Psychoanalytic Associations, and is currently in private practice as a psychiatrist in New York City. Klappentext Deals with the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. In this book, several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based on information gleaned from the author's life and writings. Zusammenfassung Deals with the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. In this book, several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based on information gleaned from the author's life and writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Epigraphs , Part One , Kaspar Hauser and soul murder , A note on soul murder , Dickens, Little Dorrit, and soul murder , Haunted by parents: Samuel Butler , Swinburne-a child who wanted to be beaten , Part Two , Jules Renard: soul murder in life and literature , Kipling, his early life and work-an attempt at soul murder , E. M. Forster , Elizabeth Bishop: the moth and the mother , King Lear and the multiple meanings of "nothing" , Clinical example of becoming able to transcend (but not eliminate) being haunted by parents , Child abuse and deprivation: soul murder 1

Autorentext
Dr Leonard Shengold is a training analyst and former Director of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (affiliated with NYU School of Medicine, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry). He has published eight books including 'Soul Murder' (1989), 'Haunted by Parents' (2006), and over seventy-five papers on clinical, theoretical and applied psychoanalytic topics. He graduated from Columbia College and Downstate New York Medical School, was an officer in both the American and the International Psychoanalytic Associations, and is currently in private practice as a psychiatrist in New York City.

Inhalt

Epigraphs , Part One , Kaspar Hauser and soul murder , A note on soul murder , Dickens, Little Dorrit, and soul murder , Haunted by parents: Samuel Butler , Swinburne-a child who wanted to be beaten , Part Two , Jules Renard: soul murder in life and literature , Kipling, his early life and work-an attempt at soul murder , E. M. Forster , Elizabeth Bishop: the moth and the mother , King Lear and the multiple meanings of "nothing" , Clinical example of becoming able to transcend (but not eliminate) being haunted by parents , Child abuse and deprivation: soul murder 1