In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at
why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to
promise a change for the better. Drawing on a lifetime of clinical
experience as well as wide readings of world literature, Shengold
shows how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a
powerful conviction that change means loss.
Dr. Shengold, who is well known for his work on the lasting effects
of childhood trauma and child abuse in such seminal books as "Soul
Murder" and "Soul Murder Revisited," continues his exploration into
the consequences of early psychological injury and loss. In the
examples of his patients and in the lives and work of such figures
as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Wordsworth, and Henrik Ibsen,
Shengold looks at the different ways in which unconscious
impressions connected with early experiences and fantasies about
parents are integrated into individual lives. He shows the
difficulties he's encountered with his patients in raising these
memories to the conscious level where they can be known and owned;
and he also shows, in his survey of literary figures, how these
memories can become part of the creative process.
"Haunted by Parents "offers a deeply humane reflection on the
values and limitations of therapy, on memory and the lingering
effects of the past, and on the possibility of recognizing the
promise of the future.
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