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Title: Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways through Psychological Obstacles to Love
Author: PICKERING JUDITH
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: ROUTLEDGE
Price: $90.99
Publishing status: Active
Judith Pickering’s book is a sweeping, awe-inspiring, fulfilling and erudite revisioning of the most important subject we ever experience and confront… Her work is rich, extensive, profound, and I am tempted to say that she has left no stone that I know of unturned in regard to the experience of love. nbsp;- James Grotstein, from the preface
Finding true love is a journey of transformation obstructed by many psychological obstacles. Being in Love expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through obstacles leading to love.
Finding true love is a journey of transformation obstructed by numerous psychological obstacles. Being in Love expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through the obstacles leading to true love.Becoming who we are is an inherently relational journey: We uncover our truest nature and become most authentically real through the difficult and fearful, yet transformative intersubjective crucibles of our intimate relationships. In this book, Judith Pickering searches for pathways that lead away from relational confusion towards the discovery of genuine relationships, and works towards finding better ways of relating to one another. This is achieved by encouraging couples to enjoy the actual presence, humanity and particularity of each other rather than expecting a partner to confirm to our own expectations, projections, desires and presuppositions.Pickering draws on clinical material, contemporary psychoanalysis, cultural themes from the worlds of mythology and literature, and a wealth of therapeutic techniques in this fresh approach to couple therapy. Being in Love will therefore interest students and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychology, and couple therapy, as well as all of those seeking to be more authentic in their relationships.
ISBN: 9780415371612
Edition: 01