| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 180 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. Important theories in understanding echoism -- The myth of Echo and Narcissus: deconstructing dominant readings -- Adam's rib: a psychoanalytic approach to understanding echoism -- To be or not to be: an existential approach to understanding echoism -- Part II. Types of echoism -- Chimeras and chameleons: the defensive echoist -- Hosts and henchmen: the self-destructive echoist -- Part III. Over-valued ideas, god-like objects, and faith -- Mistaken identity or what you will? Internal voices, narcissistic objects, and the echoist -- Hera's curse: faith and reason -- a complex paradox -- Part IV. A dynamic understanding of an echoistic-narcissistic complex -- Characters in search of an author: echoistic-narcissistic complexes and group dynamics -- Is there anybody in there? The therapist as echoist -- Part V. Conclusions and future directions -- Prometheus' fire: being and becoming: an approach to treatment |
| Summary |
This book introduces the importance of echoism as a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to her counterpart, Narcissus, yet she has been completely marginalised in the pervasive literatures on narcissism. The author draws upon her work with patients who have experienced relationships with narcissistic partners or parents, and have developed a particular configuration of object relations and ways of relating, for which she uses the term echoism. She uses psychoanalytic theory and existential philosophical ideas to underpin her formulations and inform her clinical thinking |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index |
| Notes |
Donna Christina Savery is a psychotherapist and group therapist in private practice in Buckinghamshire and Harley Street, London. At Exeter University she carried out research for her M.A. which involved working with schizophrenic patients using drama and myth, an experience which sparked a lifelong interest in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Following a career as a theatre director and academic, she retrained in 2010 as an existential therapist, beginning her career at MIND. She is a group work practitioner, having studied at the Institute of Group Analysis, and is currently undergoing training in Daseinsanalysis, an integrated form of psychoanalysis and existentialism. Her clinical work combines different aspects of these trainings and she is never far away from her drama roots in her understanding and approach to working with her patients |
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Print version record |
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Narcissus (Greek mythological character)
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| SUBJECT |
Narcissus (Greek mythological character) fast |
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Narcissism.
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Echo (Greek mythology)
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Narcissism -- Philosophy
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Psychoanalysis.
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psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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Echo (Greek mythology)
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Narcissism
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Psychoanalysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holzhey-Kunz, Alice, 1943- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780429354311 |
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0429354312 |
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9781000026238 |
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100002623X |
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9781000026269 |
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1000026264 |
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1000026299 |
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9781000026290 |
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