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Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but
it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic
impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in
this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together
contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by
addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among
questions the contributors raise and seek to answer are: Do
children understand the idea of death? How is adolescent bravado
related to deeper anxieties about death? Is it normal and even
psychologically healthy to think about one's own death during
middle age? Does culture-at-large play a role in how individuals
conceptualize the role of death in human life? Is death "apart"
from or "a part" of life? Enhanced understanding of such matters
will help mental health clinicians treat patients struggling with
death-related concerns with greater empathy.
Across the lifespan we may experience moments of sublime intimacy,
suffocating closeness, comfortable solitude, and intolerable
distance or closeness. In Interpersonal Boundaries: Variations and
Violations Salman Akhtar and the other contributors demonstrate how
boundaries, by delineating and containing the self, secure one's
conscious and unconscious experience of entity and of
self-governance. Interpersonal Boundaries reveals the complexities
of the self and its boundaries, while identifying some of the
enigmatic questions about how the biological, psychological, and
cultural aspects of the self interrelate. The contributors
skillfully integrate a wide range of theory with a wealth of
clinical material. Examples range from the dark side of
boundary-violating therapists to an extraordinary presentation of
harrowing analytic work with a severely traumatized man. Readers
will find that this volume makes a significant contribution to the
knowledge of boundaries of the self in psychotherapeutic theory and
practice.
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