Body self and psychological self
: a developmental and clinical integration of disorders of the self
Krueger, David W
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xi, 173p.; bibliog. refs.; index
'The author's central thesis is that an individual's healthy, mature sense of self contains, at its core, a cohesive, distinct, and accurate body self. The author emphasizes aspects of body self and psychological self, their normal integration, and their pathological nonintegration. The special clilnical focus is on patients with difficult-to-treat problems, such as eating disorders, narcissistic pathology, addictions, impulse disorders, and psychosomatic disorders.'
Section 1 - Development. 1 Developmental origins of the body self. 2 Body self to psychological self. Section 2 - Psychopathology. 3 Pathological sequences in body self disorders. 4 Psychosexual manifestations of self pathology. 5 Body self and psychological self integration through adolescence. 6 Eating disorders: a model developmental arrest of body self and psychological self. 7 The "parent loss" of empathic failures asnd symbolic restitutions. Section 3 - Treatment. 8 The vicissitudes of effectiveness in self-development. 9 Self disorders: a dynamic paradigm of psychopathology and psychotherapy. 10 Therapeutic applications in disorders of the self
Self
Personality disorders
Medicine, Psychosomatic
Body Image
Sick--Psychology
Mind and body therapies
Self concept
RC455.4.S42 K78 1989
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