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The Mind Object - Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency (Hardcover, Revised)
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The Mind Object - Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency (Hardcover, Revised)
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How to Help People Who Have Only Their Minds to Love Can a person
relate to his or her own mind as an object, depend upon it to the
exclusion of other objects, idealize it, fear it, hate it? Can a
person live out a life striving to attain the elusive power of the
mind's perfection, yielding to its promise while sacrificing the
body's truth? Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in
life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn
away from the body and its needs and establish "mental functioning
as a thing in itself." Winnicott's elusive term, the mind-psyche,
describes a subtle, yet fundamentally violent split in which the
mind negates the role of the body, its feelings and functions, as
the source of creative living. Later, Masud Khan elaborated on
Winnicott's notions. This exciting book extends Winnicott's and
Khan's ideas to introduce the concept of the mind object, a term
that signifies the central dissociation of the mind separated from
the body, as well as underscores its function. When the mind takes
on a life of its own, it becomes an object separate, as it were,
from the self. And because it is an object that originates as a
substitute for maternal care, it becomes an object of intense
attachment, turned to for security, solace, and gratification.
Having achieved the status of an independent object, the mind also
can turn on the self, attacking, demeaning, and persecuting the
individual. Once this object relationship is established, it
organizes the self, providing an aura of omnipotence. However, this
precocious, schizoid solution is an illusion, vulnerable to
breakdown and its associated anxieties. Making a unique
contribution, The Mind Object explores the dangers of knowing too
much the lure of the intellect for the patient as well as for the
therapist. The authors illuminate the complex pathological
consequences that result from precocious solutions."
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