SELF-AGENCY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: ATTACHMENT, AUTONOMY, AND INTIMACY

Name: SELF-AGENCY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: ATTACHMENT, AUTONOMY, AND INTIMACY
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For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and relational psychoanalyst Jean Knox argues that this experience of self-agency is always at the heart of psychological growth and development, and it follows a developmental trajectory that she examines in detail, from the realm of bodily action and reaction in the first few months of life, through the emergence of different levels of agency, to the mature expression of agency in language and metaphor.\nKnox makes the case that the achievement of a secure sense of self-agency lies at the heart of any successful psychotherapy, and argues for an updated psychoanalytic therapy rooted in a developmental and intersubjective approach. Drawing on a range of\n\nSelf\u2013Agency in Psychotherapy \u2013 Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy\nAttachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK del;