1st Edition

Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice Towards Individuation

By Margaret Clark Copyright 2006
    134 Pages
    by Routledge

    134 Pages
    by Routledge

    Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice: Towards Individuation is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from The Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for trainees on psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses, and for those who are newly qualified. These compact editions will be invaluable to all who wish to learn the basics of major theories derived from the work of Freud and Jung, from an integrated viewpoint. The authors are Jungian analysts trained at the SAP, highly experienced in both theory and practice. The author argues for the profound importance of trusting the unconscious psyche in therapeutic work with adults. She considers various analytical meanings of the term "the self", with reference to a wide range of theorists, and various ways of thinking about the development of the ego. She uses primarily a Jungian model of the psyche from a developmental perspective, based on the assumption that the ego evolves in infancy and childhood out of a primary psychosomatic self.

    Preface to the Series , Introduction , The Unconscious Psyche , Ego and Self: Defining and Differentiating , Sub-Personalities and Internal Objects , The Self–Ego Relationship in Infancy and Childhood , Ego Development in Therapy with Adults , The Self–Ego Relationship in the Therapist , Individuation: Dialogue with One's Self , Individuation: Relating to Other People

    Biography

    Margaret Clark