Ulteriori informazioni
This book examines relevant social/political issues while analyzing how repetitive patterns of interactions with significant people and the wider world develop one's expanding personality and how some repetitive patterns create "problems in living." The authors argue that people evolve by comprehending and challenging those patterns.
Sommario
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Basic Concepts
I. Developmental Eras
Chapter Two: Early Infancy: The Development of Initial Blueprints for Later Experience
Chapter Three: Late Infancy: Exploring Beyond the Self
Chapter Four: Childhood: The Widening World
Chapter: Five: The Juvenile Era: Group Experience and The Political Arts of Relating
Chapter Six: Preadolescence: Falling in Love with a Peer
Chapter Seven: Adolescence: Precursor to Independence, Emergence of Sexuality, Need for Partnership, Intimacy-A Work in Progress
Chapter Eight: Adulthood: A New Interpersonal Challenge
II. Personality and How It Works
Chapter Nine: The Self-system
Chapter Ten: Despair and the Central Paranoia
Chapter Eleven: Cognitive Development, an Interpersonal Phenomenon
Chapter Twelve: The (Essential) Interpersonal Context of Learning
Chapter Thirteen: The Interpersonal Theory of Envy
III. Practical Applications
Chapter Fourteen: Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy
Chapter Fifteen: Dreams: Their Origin, Development and Use in Therapy
IV. Issues
Chapter Sixteen: LGBTQIA+ Issues and Interpersonal Theory
Chapter Seventeen: The Current Context Of "Mental Disorders," "Diagnosis" And their Treatment
Chapter Eighteen: The Political Economy of Psychotherapy
Chapter Nineteen: A Comparison of Revolutionary and Interpersonal Theories
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Info autore
Sue Harris has been in private practice in New York City since 1968.
Janet R. Mayes was in private practice in New York City and was an adjunct lecturer of psychology at various colleges and universities, including Montclair State University and Kene University.
Marilyn Miller (1939-2020) was a certified clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatric and mental health nursing in addition to her private practice in New York City.
David Singer has his private practice in New York City and serves as clinical psychologist at Abbott House and as adjunct assistant professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice.
Riassunto
This book examines relevant social/political issues while analyzing how repetitive patterns of interactions with significant people and the wider world develop one's expanding personality and how some repetitive patterns create "problems in living." The authors argue that people evolve by comprehending and challenging those patterns.
