Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life - Hardcover

Dowds, Barbara

 
9780367102289: Beyond the Frustrated Self: Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367102285 ISBN 13: 9780367102289
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book foregrounds the life struggles of an individual, Brenda, in such a way that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The "frustration" of the title is traced to avoidant attachment - pretending not to need others. In Brenda this is associated with a body-energy pattern that is both over-charged and over-contained, generating a self-frustrating process. Such a repressive defence works against her, so that she experiences her life as dry, soulless, and uncreative. A variety of existential difficulties are traced to how such core developmental issues interact with our socio-cultural environment. A way forward is outlined: play and finding meaning are identified as transformational hubs that bring wellbeing into Brenda's life and restore her capacity for experiencing.

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Barbara Dowds

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367102285
ISBN 13 
9780367102289
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304

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