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The Self-Analysis Workbook
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- Xlibris US
- Pubblicato:
- Jul 11, 2000
- ISBN:
- 9781462829071
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The Self-Analysis Workbook is for those who are passionately interested in their own liberation. It is made possible because we each possess an inner tendency toward health. Many analysts will admit what they really do is to remove the barriers to their patients ability to heal themselves. For the psychologically-minded, this workbook will be only the first step in the never-ending journey of self-awareness. It begins with ideas about how the self is formed. It introduces the reader to the authors interpretation of Object Relations Therapy, Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity Theory, Family Systems Therapy, and Existentialism. It gives the reader insights into the major personality problems of our time - narcissism, schizoid disorders, and borderline personality disorders. It explains defense mechanisms and it discusses being, freedom, aggression, love, relationships, desires, and the self purged of egoism. Each section after the first chapter presents questions for self-analysis.
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The Self-Analysis Workbook
Descrizione
The Self-Analysis Workbook is for those who are passionately interested in their own liberation. It is made possible because we each possess an inner tendency toward health. Many analysts will admit what they really do is to remove the barriers to their patients ability to heal themselves. For the psychologically-minded, this workbook will be only the first step in the never-ending journey of self-awareness. It begins with ideas about how the self is formed. It introduces the reader to the authors interpretation of Object Relations Therapy, Self Psychology, Intersubjectivity Theory, Family Systems Therapy, and Existentialism. It gives the reader insights into the major personality problems of our time - narcissism, schizoid disorders, and borderline personality disorders. It explains defense mechanisms and it discusses being, freedom, aggression, love, relationships, desires, and the self purged of egoism. Each section after the first chapter presents questions for self-analysis.
- Editore:
- Xlibris US
- Pubblicato:
- Jul 11, 2000
- ISBN:
- 9781462829071
- Formato:
- Libro
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The Self-Analysis Workbook - Bonnie Lee Calcagno
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Copyright © 1999 by Bonnie Lee Calcagno.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
BIBLIOGRAPHY
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, ROSE
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-Marcel Proust
INTRODUCTION
Karen Horney and Erich Fromm both said self-analysis is possible. This workbook represents my attempt to begin my own self-analysis. What have I learned since I wrote it? That there is wide disagreement among psychoanalysts. There are many different schools of psychoanalysis. One subscribes to a certain theory, probably, because it has helped him or her. When one goes to a psychoanalyst one is looked at from the perspective of the theories that particular psychoanalyst holds to be true. In this workbook you can view some of those theories as I understood them from my reading. There are numerous other theories that are not included here. What I hope you will not do is to label yourself by reading this workbook. While insurance companies help perpetuate the medical model by insisting on a diagnosis, many in the mental health field view labels like borderline, narcissistic, schizoid with a grain of salt. I used them in my workbook because they can help in the self-analysis process as long as they are regarded as problems in development that can be transcended. What I’ve done in this workbook is to interpret different theories I read about. These are only my interpretations. Take them for what they are worth. If they give you greater insight into yourself, this workbook was worthwhile. If self-understanding helps you on the road to self-acceptance and greater self-love, flaws and all, then I’d feel like I accomplished something. Reading The Self-Analysis Workbook might even entice you to go to a psychoanalyst. From my perspective that wouldn’t be an undesirable outcome at all.
CHAPTER 1
Reclaiming Your Freedom
Man was born free,
said Rousseau, and everywhere he is in chains.
We spend our childhoods learning the ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts’, the norms of behavior we are expected to comply with.
We learn what we have to do to win the approval of others, how to avoid anxiety, what thoughts and feelings are acceptable, what goals our parents, the schools expect us to achieve. This process of social conditioning, conforming to the outer directions of parents and schools, often comes at the expense of our individuality, our real self. When we give up too much of ourselves to others, we’re often left with a vague feeling of emptiness inside.
How do we regain the freedom we surrendered in childhood? How do we come to know again our true self? You begin the process of reclaiming your life through self-observation, using your intelligence to look at your thoughts, your feelings, your impulses, your dreams, your fantasies—all the various parts of yourself buried under layers of a false self born to win love and avoid anxiety.
Many people do that with the help of an analyst or therapist. But sometimes it is difficult to find a therapist whose personality is compatible with yours, whose philosophy you agree with, or maybe cost will render that option impossible.
Whatever the reason, self-analysis might be the way to embark on the journey of self-awareness on your own. The aim of your self-analysis will be to uncover unconscious strivings, recognize defenses, better understand how your past impacts on the present, come to better understand your dreams, your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In using the self-analysis workbook you may see neurotic symptoms or signs of a narcissistic, borderline or schizoid personality disorder and decide to seek therapy. The workbook is not a substitute for therapy, but rather another tool to help you to better understand yourself.
The habit of self-analysis is a habit you’ll practice for the rest of your life. How successful you will be at it depends on how strong your desire to achieve inner freedom is. A self-actualizing tendency exists in all of us. Except in instances of severe pathology, the human mind like the human body, is capable of growth and self-healing. The important thing is that you think about your life. After using the workbook you might decide to just stop listening to the radio in the car and to spend that time alone thinking about the events in your life and how you feel about them. Or you might set aside some time each morning or each evening to reflect on your day. Self-Analysis isn’t for everyone. You have to be a little psychologically-minded to enjoy using the workbook. You have to value thinking things out for yourself. You have to be committed to your own self-actualization and growth. You have to believe that the unexamined life is truly not worth living. You have to be willing to accept all the various parts of yourself. You have to be willing to say I am what I am
and what I seek is to live with awareness and with a greater sense of aliveness.
CHAPTER 2
H
ow The Self Is Formed
We will begin our work with self-analysis at the beginning. In the beginning there is no psychological self. As Margaret Mahler (1975) and others have shown the psychological self slowly comes into being in the first months of life. In the very first month the infant makes no distinction between what is external and internal. Perceptions run together. Attention is focused on feelings inside the body. The month old infant lives in a half awake, half asleep state of fused oneness, oblivious of boundries.
During the second or third month of life memory traces of inner tension and its
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