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Mixed feelings about motherhood--uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children--are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light. She uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behavior--from normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering. In a society where perfection in parenting is the unattainable ideal, this compassionate book also shows how women can affect positive change in their lives.

Have you ever wondered what a therapist really thinks? Have you ever wondered if a therapist truly cares about her patients? Have you tried to imagine the unimaginable, the loss of the person most dear to you? Is it true that ` tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? ` Love and loss are a ubiquitous part of life, bringing the greatest joys and the greatest heartaches. In one way or another all relationships end. People leave, move on, die. Loss is an ever-present part of life. In Love and Loss , Linda B. Sherby illustrates that in order to grow and thrive, we must learn to mourn, to move beyond the person we have lost while taking that person with us in our minds. Love, unlike loss, is not inevitable but, she argues, no satisfying life can be lived without deeply meaningful relationships. The focus of Love and Loss is how patients' and therapists' independent experiences of love and loss, as well as the love and loss that they experience in the treatment room, intermingle and interact. There are always two people in the consulting room, both of whom are involved in their own respective lives, as well as the mutually responsive relationship that exists between them. Love and loss in the life of one of the parties affects the other, whether that affect takes place on a conscious or unconscious level. Love and Loss is unique in two respects.The first is its focus on the analyst's current life situation and how that necessarily affects both the patient and the treatment. The second is Sherby's willingness to share the personal memoir of her own loss which she has interwoven with extensive clinical material to clearly illustrate the effect the analyst's current life circumstance has on the treatment. Writing as both a psychoanalyst and a widow, Linda B. Sherby makes it possible for the reader to gain an inside view of the emotional experience of being an analyst, making this book of interest to a wide audience. Professionals from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and bereavement specialists through students in all the mental health fields to the public in general, will resonate and learn from this heartfelt and straightforward book. Dedication. Acknowledgements.Foreword. Introduction. Journeys. Falling in Love in Treatment and in Life. The Love Stories Continue.The Erotic Countertransference: Exploring An Analyst’s Sexual Feelings. Forced Termination:When Pain is Shared. Self-Disclosure: Seeking Connection and Protection. From Disconnection to Reconnection. Illness and Death: Self-Disclosure Revisited.The Power of Love and Loss in a Psychoanalytic Treatment: Looking Back. Endings: The Power of Love and Loss in a Psychoanalytic Treatment. Mourning: Letting Go and Holding On. \" This is a book of rare beauty. Linda Sherby renders her inner experiences both of love and profound grief and their impact on her patients with a richness and complexity that is the mark of a truly gifted writer. This deeply affecting book makes a valuable contribution, not only to psychoanalysis, but to literature as well.\" - 　Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D. Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and New York University Psychoanalytic Institute \"In poignant, accessible prose, Sherby shares her passionate love and grief as a wife, and her tender concern as a therapist. Sherby’s extraordinary self portrait connects us with our own fiercest joys and sorrows, and both the pleasure and pain of remembering those we have truly loved.\" - Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute Linda B. Sherby is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and supervisor in private practice in Boca Raton, Florida.

Tombe-t-on plus facilement amoureux en mangeant des bonbons? Peut-on vivre plusieurs amours en même temps? À des questions sérieusement drôles, des réponses drôlement sérieuses! Dans un langage rigoureusement vulgarisé et parsemé de pointes d'humour, le tout soutenu par une forte ligne graphique, ce petit livre superbement illustré vous emmène… un peu plus loin, sur le thème de l'amour! L'amour sous quelles facettes? Le livre aborde des thèmes comme la naissance du sentiment amoureux, le lien entre biologie et amour, les différentes manières de témoigner son amour, la longévité du sentiment amoureux, ses vertus et ses dangers pour la santé, le bien-être et la réussite… À des questions sérieusement drôles, des réponses drôlement sérieuses! Un livre à s'offrir ou à offrir à vos copains, à vos amis proches ou à votre meilleur(e) ami(e)! Au départ de questions que tout le monde se pose (sans parfois oser l'avouer), ce livre vous emmène vers des réponses éclairantes et toujours prouvées! En effet, chaque réponse est basée sur une recherche scientifique récente menée par des psychologues. Au rythme d'une question/réponse par double page, sur un ton léger, drôle et précis, vous accéderez à des conclusions d'études scientifiques enfin intelligibles! CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE Les directeurs de collection ont fait appel à des chercheurs français et belges pour vulgariser et rendre accessibles les récentes recherches scientifiques en psychologie. Les livres sont présentés sous la forme de réponse à une question simple, en une double page. - Emmanuelle Bour, Livres Hebdo 60 questions insolites voire dérangeantes sont passées au crible de la science par un couple de psychologues belges dans cet ouvrage original. Cette nouvelle collection « In psycho veritas » se veut sérieuse, documentée et un brin impertinente. Elle I'est. Les réponses sont scientifiquement étayées et les conclusions claires. - Elena Sender, Sciences et avenir \"In psycho veritas\" permet à un public non averti de s'instruire – avec le sourire – sur des thèmes en résonance avec la vie quotidienne. La collection rend accessibles à tous les résultats des recherches scientifiques récentes en psychologie. - Presse Edition Si vous souhaitez tout savoir sur l'amour et obtenir certaines réponses sur ce qui y a trait, pourquoi ne pas vous embarquer dans la lecture de ce petit volume qu'on peut aussi bien découvrir de manière chronologique qu'en butinant de-ci de-là, attiré par l'énoncé d'une question ou soucieux de découvrir un avis sur un point qui nous titille. [...] Le ton est léger, parfois drôle; mais toujours précis et basé sur des statistiques qui définissent ce qu'on appelle communément la norme. - Georgie Bartholomé, Bruxelles Culture À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Marc Olano est titulaire d'un master « Médias, santé et communication » obtenu à l'École de Journalisme de Marseille. Il a étudié la psychologie aux Universités de Grenoble et Paris 8. Passionné par la recherche scientifique et l'écriture, il collabore régulièrement aux magazines Sciences Humaines et Le Cercle Psy.

This book offers both a philosophical and psychological theory of an aspect of human love, first noted by Plato and used by Freud in developing psychoanalysis (transference love), namely, lovers as mirrors for one another, enabling them thus better to see and understand themselves and others. Shakespeare's art makes the same appeal--theater as a communal mirror--expressing the artist holding a loving mirror for his culture at a point of transitional crisis between a shame and guilt culture. The book shows how Shakespeare's plays offer better insights into the behavior of violent men than Freud's, based on close empirical study of violent criminals; develops a theory of violence rooted in the moral emotions of shame and guilt; and a cultural psychology of the transition from shame to guilt cultures. The work argues that violence is, contra Freud, not an ineliminable instinct in the nature of things, requiring autocracy, but arises from patriarchally inflicted cultural injuries to the love of equals that undermine democracy, and that only a therapy based on love can address such injuries, replacing retributive with restorative justice, and populist fascist autocracy with constitutional democracy. Love, thus understood, underlies a range of disparate phenomena: the appeal of Shakespeare's theater as a communal art; the role of love in psychoanalysis; in Augustine's conception of love in religion (disfigured by his patriarchal assumptions); in Kant's anti-utilitarian ethics of dignity; in a naturalistic ethics that roots ethics in facts of human psychology; the role of law in democratic cultures as a mirror and critique of such cultures; and the basis of an egalitarian theory of universal human rights (inspired by Kant and developed, more recently, by John Rawls). In all these domains, uncritically accepted forms of culture (the initiation of men and women into patriarchy) traumatize the love of equals, and thus disfigure and distort our personal and political lives.

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet it endures as a place of belonging, fun, role-play and social experimentation. In this volume, the authors argue that far from facing an impending death, Second Life has undergone a transition to maturity and holds a new type of significance. As people increasingly explore and co-create a sense of self and ways of belonging through avatars and computer screens, the question of where and how people live and die becomes increasingly more important to understand. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives.

This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory of the nature of value and its relation to feeling, belief, and to drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and appraisal is critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as jealousy, envy, anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general theory of emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain state.