When the Bubble Bursts - Clinical Perspectives on Midlife Issues (Hardcover)

What is it about the challenges and stresses of midlife that disrupts equilibrium and promotes a sense of despair, even of crisis? Why does this stage of the life cycle give rise to new mental and physical symptoms that, for some, lead to chronic unhappiness to the point of dysfunction? Of course, there are common midlife events that account for the special narcissistic vulnerabilities of this period of life, and Eda Goldstein ably reviews these events and the theoretical perspectives commonly brought to bear on them. In When the Bubble Bursts, however, Goldstein's special concern is those individuals who come to midlife with heightened narcissistic vulnerabilities that make the navigation of this stage of life more difficult still. In understanding the latter such patients and devising a treatment approach appropriate to their self issues, Goldstein adopts a broadly self-psychological frame of reference. It is a matter, she finds again and again, of understanding how current stressors frustrate healthy self needs and trigger narcissistic vulnerabilities. purview, embraces modalities that are, to varying degrees, supportive, psychodynamic, and psychoanalytic, reworks and strengthens self structures in helping patients find new ways of affirming their sense of self. Her substantive case studies, which accompany the reader through all the chapters in her study, draw on personal and supervisory experiences to illustrate crucial foci of the treatment process with a range of midlife patients in psychotherapy. It is a striking that, amid a voluminous literature on psychodynamic psychotherapy, so little attention has been paid to the narcissistic vulnerabilities of midlife and the manner in which they enter into the psychotherapy of midlife patients. Eda Goldstein remedies this glaring lacuna in the literature with a study that comprises an admirable blend of theoretical astuteness, clinical wisdom, and personal honesty. balanced discussion of theoretical perspectives on adult development and her concluding consideration of the countertransference issues elicited by midlife patient in their midlife therapists, is an edifying and ingratiating contribution to the literatures of psychodynamic psychotherapy, self psychology, and adult development.

General

Imprint:	Analytic Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	1992
Authors:	Eda Goldstein
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-88163-348-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > General Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > Reproductive medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-88163-348-8
Barcode:	9780881633481

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