Hags and heroes : a feminist approach to Jungian psychotherapy with couples / Polly Young-Eisendrath
- Author
- Young-Eisendrath, Polly, 1947-
- Published
- Toronto, Canada : Inner City Books, [1984]
- Copyright Date
- ©1984
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (184 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Use of stories in psychotherapy -- Importance of the archetypal feminine ; Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnell : what do women really want? ; Challenge to change -- Feminism and the psychology of C.G. Jung -- Feminist theory and therapy ; Reconstructing the dominant conscious attitude ; Animus and a woman's sense of herself ; Stages of animus development ; Individuation as a developmental model ; Competing realities in the interactional field -- C.G. Jung and Harry Stack Sullivan -- Interpersonal meets intrapsychic : a comparative dialogue ; Sullivan's stages of personality development -- Enacting the complex : hag, hero and bully -- Psychology of a hag ; Louise as the hag ; Social aspects of the negative mother ; Larry as the hero ; Hero as a collective problem ; Bully role ; Negative mother complex -- Embracing the hag in middle life -- Assessing the potential loss ; Dominance and possession ; Understanding the repressed feminine ; Love and free choice ; Louise and Larry embrace the hag -- Methodology in couple therapy -- Guidelines for therapists ; Initial contact with clients ; Strategies and techniques ; Format of sessions ; Stages of couple therapy ; Therapist training -- Identification with a complex versus enactment -- On being and doing the hag ; On being and doing the bully ; Alternative forms of treatment -- Conclusion : Vitality through connection -- Gawain and the Lady Ragnell (from The maid of the north and other folktale heroines -- Psychosexual assessment -- Developmental assessment in context.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0585218773 (electronic bk.)
9780585218779 (electronic bk.)
0919123171 (pbk.)
9780919123175 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index.
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