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Being in Love : Therapeutic Pathways Through Psychological Obstacles to Love by Judith Pickering is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Finding true love is a journey of transformation obstructed by numerous psychological obstacles. __Being in Love__ expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through the obstacles leading to true love. Becoming who we are is an inherently relational journey: we uncover our truest nature and become most authentically real through the difficult and fearful, yet transformative intersubjective crucibles of our intimate relationships. In this book, Judith Pickering draws comparisons between Bion's concept of becoming in O, and being in love. She searches for pathways that lead away from relational confusion towards the discovery of genuine transformational relationships, and works towards finding better ways of relating to one another. This is achieved by encouraging couples to enjoy the actual presence, humanity, otherness and particularity of each other rather than expecting a partner to conform to our own expectations, projections, desires and presuppositions. Pickering draws on clinical material, contemporary psychoanalysis, cultural themes from the worlds of mythology and literature, and a wealth of therapeutic techni

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Author

Judith Pickering

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203099988

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences