Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence - From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust

Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual's relationship with their body, psychic-emotional internal life, and intimate relationships.

List of contents

1. Introduction  2. A 'Mother-of-One's-Own' - An Analytic View of Object-Relationships in Adult Patients Raised in the Kibbutz  3. 'Love Thy Work': From Having No Mother to Being Everybody's Mother - Re-Examining the Professional Choice of Women Psychotherapists Who Grew Up in the Kibbutz  4. That Which Was Not - Some Thoughts Regarding Oedipus's Modern Conflicts  5. The 'Choice' between Illusory Life and Acceptance of the Death of One's Love Object  6. Psychosomatic Symptoms as Physical Dreams: Emotional Experiences given Expression through the Body  7. When Hunger Strikes - Re-thinking Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist' in light of Winnicott's Theory of the Psyche-Soma  8. What do Faith and Trust have to do with Psychoanalysis?

About the author

Ofrit Shapira-Berman, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and a professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She maintains a private practice in Tel Aviv.

Summary

Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual’s relationship with their body, psychic-emotional internal life, and intimate relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Ofrit Shapira-Berman, Ofrit (Hebrew University Shapira-Berman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781032066455
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206645-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: couples and families, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Couple and Family psychology