Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of ShameWinner of the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. The issue of shame has become a central topic for many writers and therapists in recent years, but it is debatable how much real understanding of this powerful and pervasive emotion we have achieved. Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life. The author further expands on this concept of the look through a powerful and extensive study of the concept of the Evil Eye, an enduring universal belief that eyes have the power to inflict injury. Finally, she presents ways of healing shame within a clinical setting, and provides a fascinating analysis of the role of eye-contact in the therapeutic encounter. |
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... dream group members listened to me as I babbled loose thoughts and provided a container in which to explore my ideas. Many other friends, colleagues and relatives gave encouragement and support. Sometimes it was the loan of a book, an ...
... dream group members listened to me as I babbled loose thoughts and provided a container in which to explore my ideas . Many other friends , colleagues and relatives gave encouragement and support . Sometimes it was the loan of a book ...
The Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. from the newspaper , a dream , advice , or just the smallest word or two which illuminated my work . To each one of them I am deeply grateful . One last thank you must go to my anonymous reviewers who ...
... Dreams, shame is connected with embarrassment, as in dreams of being naked (Hultberg, 1986: 159). Prior to the recent surge of interest, theorists subsumed shame under other emotions, mainly guilt, whereas shame as an independent affect ...
... Dreams , shame is connected with embarrassment , as in dreams of being naked ( Hultberg , 1986 : 159 ) . Prior to the recent surge of interest , theorists subsumed shame under other emotions , mainly guilt , whereas shame as an independ ...
Contents
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Mothers eyes | 34 |
Mothers eyes as false mirrors | 61 |
The Evil Eye and the Great Mother | 99 |
The eyes of love | 188 |