Search For The Real Self

Author: James F. Masterson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668910
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one’s real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society. Personality disorders—borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid—have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their colleagues, family, lovers and employees—as well as mental health professionals. The author helps the reader understand them. After describing how the healthy real self develops and functions, he explains what can go wrong. Drawing on case histories, he shows how the false self behaves in relationships and on the job, and then delineates appropriate treatments, offering real hope for cure.

The Real Self

Author: James F. Masterson, M.D.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134844344
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
First Published in 1985. This informative volume examines the clinical research linking normal separation-individuation with object relations theory and developmental psychopathology. It focuses on the core problem-the lack of a concept of the self-integrated with object relations theory. By adding a theory of the self to object relations theory, the book both enlarges and more acutely focuses the therapeutic perspective, thereby enhancing work with patients. It also further enables therapists to clarify their own real selves. Dr. Masterson's thesis is that, for the real self to finally emerge from the symbiotic union and assume its full capacities, identification, acknowledgment, and support are required from the mother and father in early development and from the therapist in psychotherapy. Dr. Masterson describes and illustrates the therapeutic technique of communicative matching and provides the necessary acknowledgment while maintaining therapeutic neutrality. Part I reviews psychoanalytic theory of the ego and the emerging real self; its structure, function, development, and its psychopathology and treatment. Part II explores the relationship between maternal libidinal acknowledgment and the development of the real self by a crosscultural comparison of child raising in Japan, Israel, and the United States. It then describes the influence of social and cultural factors on the functioning of the real self in the United States. Part III on Creativity and the Real Self draws upon fairy tales, Jean Paul Sartre, Edvard Munch, and the life and work of the novelist Thomas Wolfe to show how for some artists creativity becomes a crucial vehicle in their search to establish a real self. This section illuminates the nature of personal and artistic creativity and describes how a professional interest in the functioning of the real self leads inevitably to an interest in the ultimate of self-expression-creativity. Of special interest are the numerous case illustrations drawn from Masterson's extensive clinical work showing how acknowledgment and support enable the real self to fully emerge from the symbiotic union and to assume its full capacities.)

Becoming Your Real Self

Author: Dr Eddie Murphy
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241971489
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
When you find yourself in a good place in your life, how do you make sure you stay there? Or, if you're in a bad place in your life, how do you get out of it? Here's how ... Dr Eddie Murphy knows what makes people tick. In Becoming Your Real Self, Eddie shares his methods for building and maintaining mental fitness - from identifying behavioural patterns to coping with the demands of a busy lifestyle; from dismissing faulty thinking to challenging emotional eating. In this book, you will learn how to transform: · Stress into relaxation · Anxiety into freedom · Low self-esteem into self-worth · Anger into calm With Becoming Your Real Self as your handbook, you can release yourself from the tyranny of negative emotions and embrace a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Author: Stephen Cope
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 198480006X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 485

Book Description
More than 100,000 copies sold! Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being"--a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now one of America's leading scholars of yoga psychology--who is also a Western-trained psychotherapist--offers this marvelously lively and personal account of an ancient tradition that promises "the soul awake in this lifetime." Drawing on the vivid stories of practitioners at the largest yoga center in America, where he has lived and taught for more than ten years, Stephen Cope describes the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga--a practical science of development that urges us not to transcend or dissolve the self, but rather to encounter it more deeply. In this irreverent modern-day Pilgrim's Progress, Cope introduces us to an unforgettable cast of contemporary seekers--on the road to enlightenment carrying all the baggage of the human condition: confusion, loss, disappointment, addiction, and the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. As he describes the subtle shifts of energy and consciousness that happen at each stage of the path, we discover that in yoga, "liberation" does not require us to leave life in the world for some transcendent spiritual plane. Life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.

How to Find Your Real Self

Author: Mildred Mann
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1877527017
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Mildred Mann was a bestselling author and teacher of the New Thought Movement. Her ideas and ideals and those of others in the New Thought Movement have seen a resurgence with the release of the bestselling book and film "The Secret" and the popularity of the Jerry and Esther Hicks Abraham Teachings. How do we find ourselves? We do so by going "within." We get to know ourselves, to understand how we are made, and then we learn to use the magnificent power within us.

SIENNA IN SEARCH OF HER 'TRUE SELF'

Author: Norma Barnett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463439695
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
The book will take you through a psycho-spiritual journey in hope of finding your :SOUL" and be able to live peacefully and harmonically with your "True Self" The book is exciting because you can find a map to trace you back to your origin, find out where you detour. Exercise are available for you to explore and fix the past. The outcome is worthy of the journey.

The Search for the Real Self

Author: James F. Masterson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780029202913
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Outwardly charming, confident, and successful individuals may in fact be caught in a knot of self-destructive behavior. This book looks at case histories and delineates appropriate treatments for each disorder--offering a real hope for cure.

In Search of the Real

Author: Dodi Goldman
Publisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN: 9780876680063
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The originality of Winnicott's thought and his originality as a person as inseparable. This book explores the way in which a search for an experiencing that feels real is evident in both Winnicott's life and work. He believes deeply that individuals possess a unique, innate authenticity. One feels most alive and free when in touch with this core sense of real self.

Know Your Real Self

Author: Rachna Khemchandani
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537016979
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE ALL SPIRITUAL ANSWERS, CLARITY & SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE THAT YOU ARE SEEKING IN YOUR PATH AND WILL HELP YOU ATTAIN INNER PEACE & INNER FREEDOM. THIS BOOK WILL REVEAL THE ULTIMATE SPIRITUAL TRUTH AND WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU AND LIBERATE YOU. IT WILL ALSO HELP YOU ATTAIN INNER POSITIVE STRENGTH AND INNER HAPPINESS. IT WILL HELP YOU ATTAIN HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. IT WILL ALSO REVEAL THE MYSTERIES OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERATION OR MOKSHA !........... I got a strong intuitive feeling to write this book so that more and more people can be benefited by it. I wanted to share my life's journey & experiences in depth with readers and sadhaks/spiritual seekers who are on a similar path so that they can get insight and more clarity on lot of issues which will deepen their faith and help them to see their own journey in a different light. The other reason of writing this book is to help other sadhaks/spiritual seekers gain insight and learn from my experiences. I never intended to write this book for any name or fame or money but rather my main intention is to help other seekers on their spiritual path so that they can purify their inner selves and experience higher states of consciousness, inner peace and inner freedom. The book also has two very powerful meditations which will completely transform your life and help you in your spiritual growth and inner purification provided it is practised regularly with surrender and faith.

Passage to the Real Self

Author: Inn Sook Lee
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761844740
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Asian women, both in Asia and the United States, are in search of the courage to find and integrate their authentic real selves in a multicultural milieu. This book makes the argument that since Asian American women live in the periphery of the multicultural West, they need to strengthen the psychological process of self integration, assimilating neither to traditional cultural demands or those of the larger society. They desire self reliance, search for meaning in practicing love and justice for others, while living in a permanent pilgrimage between worlds. The passages identified in the self-integration process are conscientization, introspection, and integration. After much suffering under patriarchy, hierarchy, and rejection, Asian American women launch into conscientization and incorporate their evolving selves in introspection. They engage in self analysis, sociocultural analysis, and healing their codependent selves. The women finally achieve autonomous/synergetic selves and realign psychological aspects, develop inner strength and a deep spirituality at their core selves, thus embodying peace in their hearts.