Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series) - Softcover

Waddell, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415922895 ISBN 13: 9780415922890

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

Inside Lives tells in the simplest of terms the most complex of stories: the internal development of a person from infancy to old age. Following the major phases of human development, Margot Waddell lucidly explores those vital aspects of experience which promote mental and emotional growth as well as those which impede it. She traces the interplay between factors, internal and external, which contribute to a person's character strength and sense of identity. In gathering together a wide range of clinical, non-clinical and literary examples, this book provides a personal and vivid perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development.

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Review:

..."there is a general balance throughout this excellent book. There is humour too, and awareness of our need for a degree of necessary humility in viewing our human condition."-"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy "In reading this book slowly and with pleasure I have had the experience of learning, which, to paraphrase the author, is the experience of having emotional experiences which were meaningful and can then become the basis for further thoughts."-"Journal of Analytical Psychology "Overall, the book is wonderfully written and abounds with rich clinical examples. Above all, by locating Kleinian theory in a context of normal development, it adds an interpersonal dimension to that theory that is indeed welcome."-"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "I found this book immensely stimulatng, challenging me to examine my own biases and assumed truths, and always a pleasure to read. I recommend it to all who have aninterest in understanding the processes of human development from the inside."-"The International Journal of Infant Observation

About the Author:

Margot Waddell is a psychoanalyst and consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Together with Nicholas Temple, she is editor of Routledge's Tavistock Clinic Series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415922895
• ISBN 13: 9780415922890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240