The Search for the Real Self

The Search for the Real Self
Author: James F. Masterson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1988
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780029202913

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Outwardly charming, confident, and successful individuals may in fact be caught in a knot of self-destructive behavior. This book looks at case histories and delineates appropriate treatments for each disorder--offering a real hope for cure.

Search For The Real Self

Search For The Real Self
Author: James F. Masterson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1451668910

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From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one’s real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society. Personality disorders—borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid—have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their colleagues, family, lovers and employees—as well as mental health professionals. The author helps the reader understand them. After describing how the healthy real self develops and functions, he explains what can go wrong. Drawing on case histories, he shows how the false self behaves in relationships and on the job, and then delineates appropriate treatments, offering real hope for cure.

The Real Self

The Real Self
Author: James F. Masterson, M.D.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134844344

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First Published in 1985. This informative volume examines the clinical research linking nor­mal separation-individuation with object relations theory and devel­opmental psychopathology. It focuses on the core problem-the lack of a concept of the self-integrated with object relations theory. By adding a theory of the self to object relations theory, the book both enlarges and more acutely focuses the therapeutic perspective, thereby enhancing work with patients. It also further enables therapists to clarify their own real selves. Dr. Masterson's thesis is that, for the real self to finally emerge from the symbiotic union and assume its full capacities, identification, acknowledgment, and support are required from the mother and father in early development and from the therapist in psychotherapy. Dr. Masterson describes and illustrates the therapeutic technique of communicative matching and provides the necessary acknowledg­ment while maintaining therapeutic neutrality. Part I reviews psychoanalytic theory of the ego and the emerging real self; its structure, function, development, and its psychopathol­ogy and treatment. Part II explores the relationship between maternal libidinal ac­knowledgment and the development of the real self by a cross­cultural comparison of child raising in Japan, Israel, and the United States. It then describes the influence of social and cultural factors on the functioning of the real self in the United States. Part III on Creativity and the Real Self draws upon fairy tales, Jean Paul Sartre, Edvard Munch, and the life and work of the novelist Thomas Wolfe to show how for some artists creativity becomes a crucial vehicle in their search to establish a real self. This section illuminates the nature of personal and artistic creativity and describes how a professional interest in the functioning of the real self leads inevitably to an interest in the ultimate of self-expression-creativity. Of special interest are the numerous case illustrations drawn from Masterson's extensive clinical work showing how acknowledgment and support enable the real self to fully emerge from the symbiotic union and to assume its full capacities.)

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Author: Stephen Cope
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 198480006X

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More than 100,000 copies sold! Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being"--a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now one of America's leading scholars of yoga psychology--who is also a Western-trained psychotherapist--offers this marvelously lively and personal account of an ancient tradition that promises "the soul awake in this lifetime." Drawing on the vivid stories of practitioners at the largest yoga center in America, where he has lived and taught for more than ten years, Stephen Cope describes the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga--a practical science of development that urges us not to transcend or dissolve the self, but rather to encounter it more deeply. In this irreverent modern-day Pilgrim's Progress, Cope introduces us to an unforgettable cast of contemporary seekers--on the road to enlightenment carrying all the baggage of the human condition: confusion, loss, disappointment, addiction, and the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. As he describes the subtle shifts of energy and consciousness that happen at each stage of the path, we discover that in yoga, "liberation" does not require us to leave life in the world for some transcendent spiritual plane. Life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.

How to Find Your Real Self

How to Find Your Real Self
Author: Mildred Mann
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1877527017

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Mildred Mann was a bestselling author and teacher of the New Thought Movement. Her ideas and ideals and those of others in the New Thought Movement have seen a resurgence with the release of the bestselling book and film "The Secret" and the popularity of the Jerry and Esther Hicks Abraham Teachings. How do we find ourselves? We do so by going "within." We get to know ourselves, to understand how we are made, and then we learn to use the magnificent power within us.

In Search of the Real

In Search of the Real
Author: Dodi Goldman
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1993
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 9780876680063

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The originality of Winnicott's thought and his originality as a person as inseparable. This book explores the way in which a search for an experiencing that feels real is evident in both Winnicott's life and work. He believes deeply that individuals possess a unique, innate authenticity. One feels most alive and free when in touch with this core sense of real self.

In Search of Your True Self

In Search of Your True Self
Author: Staples, Walter Doyle
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1996-05-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781455606306

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"If you're reading this, consider yourself lucky- you've stumbled across one of the best books ever written. Walter Staples has put so much wisdom and so many practical strategies for success into this book that it could have been three books. What a treasure chest for anyone serious about greater success and more happiness in every area of their life." Jack Canfield Coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul "This book has an important message-how to master the process of personal empowerment to help ourselves and others live fuller, more productive lives." Denis Waitley, Ph.D. Author of The Psychology of Winning and Seeds of Greatness "When you become master of your inner world, you become master of your outer world." So states Walter Staples in his new book. The author wants the reader to experience a spiritual awakening in order to develop a whole new sense of self, which affects every aspect of life. Everything is rooted in basic psychological principles, yet few people have been exposed to formal psychological education. As a consequence, most people live their lives without knowing who they really are, without knowing their true self. Everything necessary to find the true self comes from within: an open mind, curiosity, and ambition. This is the instruction book to use to achieve that goal. Dr. Staples is one of America's leading authorities on human potential and personal empowerment. An active speaker, he is the author of the international best seller, Think Like a Winner!, and Power to Win!, both published by Pelican.

Reclaiming Your Real Self

Reclaiming Your Real Self
Author: Rick Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-03-20
Genre: Ego (Psychology)
ISBN: 9781439227558

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Reclaiming Your Real Self presents an approach to self-healing that combines a strengths-based psychological model with an inclusive view of spirituality.

SIENNA IN SEARCH OF HER 'TRUE SELF'

SIENNA IN SEARCH OF HER 'TRUE SELF'
Author: Norma Barnett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1463439695

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The book will take you through a psycho-spiritual journey in hope of finding your :SOUL" and be able to live peacefully and harmonically with your "True Self" The book is exciting because you can find a map to trace you back to your origin, find out where you detour. Exercise are available for you to explore and fix the past. The outcome is worthy of the journey.

In Search of Authenticity

In Search of Authenticity
Author: Jacob Golomb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134812744

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Great philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre have clearly been preoccupied by the possibility of authenticity. In this study, Jacob Golomb looks closely at the literature and writings of these philosophers in his analysis of their ethics. Golomb's writings shows his passionate commitment to the quest for the authenticity - particularly in our climate of post-modern scepticism. He argues that existentialism is all the more pertinent and relevant today when set against the general disillusionment which characterises the late twentieth century. This book is invaluable reading for those who have been fascinated by figures like Camus's Meursault, Sartre's Matthieu and Nietzsche's Zarathustra.