Ellen Sinkman

The Psychology of Beauty

Creation of a Beautiful Self

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This bookaddresses the vital importance of beauty, its sources, and manifestations in everyone's lives-including psychotherapy patients. During psychotherapy, patients manifest or defend against the desire to be beautiful. This book considers definitions of beauty, gender identity themes, and origins of beauty in the mother-infant relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780765708427
• ISBN-10: 0765708426
• Artikelnr.: 36529241

Autorenporträt

By Ellen Sinkman

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Pygmalion and His Living Sculpture Chapter 2: Prehistoric and
Literary Eras: Seeking a Beautiful Self Chapter 3: Ordinary Beauty and
Timeless Fantasies Chapter 4: Re-birth, Transformation, or Growth:
Narcissistic Hurdles in the Quest to Become Beautiful Chapter 5: The
Misplaced Therapist: In Search of Pygmalion on and off the Couch Chapter 6:
Reaching Farther for a Pygmalion Experience: Artistic Beauty or
Pathological Excursions Chapter 7: Perverse Aspects in the Urge to Become
Beautiful: Use and Abuse in Pygmalion Dyads Chapter 8: The Intersection of
the Biology and Psychology of Beauty Chapter 9: Understanding the
Invisibility of Beauty in Clinical Work: Translating the Unseen Chapter 10:
Doing Versus Talking in Clinical Work: Cautionary Tales for Working
Successfully with Beauty Issues Chapter 11: Creating Beauty: Evolutionary
and Cutting Edge Perspectives Chapter 12: Variations on Definitions of
Beauty Chapter 13: Beauty, Gender Identity, and Primary Femininity Chapter
14: Origins and Endings of Beauty Bibliography Index