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Sexuelle Freiheit aufgedeckt
by Thérèse Hargot Jakob Pastötter Lydia LundbeckWas haben wir aus der sexuellen Befreiung gemacht? Nach 50 Jahren sexueller Revolution ist so viel Sex im öffentlichen Raum wie seit der Antike nicht mehr. Doch wie beeinflusst dies die heutigen Jugendlichen? Dieses Buch deckt Auswirkungen und Zusammenhänge der sexuellen Befreiung auf. Basierend auf langjähriger Erfahrung in der schulischen Sexualaufklärung und gestützt durch viele anschauliche Beispiele schildert die Autorin minutiös und bisweilen erfrischend maliziös, was und wie Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene heute über Sexualität denken. Obwohl sich diese sexuell befreit fühlen, unterliegen sie doch vielfältigen Zwängen. Ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen vermittelt die Autorin anhand von vielen Beispielen, welche Auswirkungen Faktoren wie eine Bagatellisierung der Porno-Kultur, permanentes Leistungsstreben, hormonelle Verhütung und eine zwanghafte Suche nach sexueller Orientierung nach sich ziehen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es ein Irrglaube ist, dass sich die Sexualität als Konsumgut instrumentalisieren und beherrschen, pädagogisch vermitteln, sozial konstruieren sowie pharmazeutisch und chirurgisch optimieren lässt. Das reale Liebesleben könnte sonst viel Leere, Frustration, Verunsicherung und Einsamkeit erfahren. Das Buch regt dazu an, das Wagnis einzugehen, sich den damit verbundenen Fragen des Lebens zu stellen und den Lernprozess der Sozialisierung im Bereich von Liebe, Sex und Beziehungen neu zu überdenken.
Sexuelle Orientierung: in Psychotherapie und Beratung
by Margret Göth Ralph KohnSchwule, Lesben, Bisexuelle in Psychotherapie und Beratung – die wesentlichen Punkte für die PraxisPsychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten wollen schwule, lesbische und bisexuelle Patientinnen weder pathologisieren noch diskriminieren, sondern vielmehr affirmativ arbeiten. Viele ziehen sich auf emphatisches Verstehen als Instrument der Psychotherapie zurück. Andere sehen eine Lösung darin, die sexuelle Orientierung möglichst nicht besonders zu beachten. Die Folge: Oft wird die sexuelle Orientierung nur oberflächlich benannt, aber ihre Bedeutung für den Klienten nicht erkannt. In einigen Fällen bleibt die sexuelle Orientierung völlig unausgesprochen und unerkannt.Affirmative Therapie kann mehr als „Alles kein Problem mehr, ich behandle alle gleich!“Lesben, Schwule, Bisexuelle durchlaufen als Minderheit in einer heteronormativen Mehrheitsgesellschaft eine spezifische sexuelle Identitätsentwicklung, bei der die Überwindung von Internalisierter Homonegativität die größte Hürde darstellt. Sie sind spezifischem Minderheitenstress und Risikodynamiken ausgesetzt, gegen die sie eigene Ressourcen mobilisieren und Communities schaffen. Praxisnah vermitteln Autorin und Autor Wissen um die Besonderheiten einer nicht-heterosexuellen Entwicklung schwuler, lesbischer und bisexueller Identitäten und Lebenswelten. Sie regen an, die eigene Haltung zur Vielfalt sexueller Orientierung und Identität zu reflektieren, und fördern Handlungskompetenzen. Sie schreiben für Psychologische Psychotherapeuten, psychotherapeutisch tätige Ärztinnen, Berater, Studierende, Psychotherapeutinnen in der Ausbildung und Supervisoren.Eine gute lesbare Reise in nicht-heterosexuelle Lebenswelten von erfahrenen Fachleuten aus Beratung, Psychotherapie, Selbsterfahrung und Fortbildung.
Sexuelle Störungen: Eine Einführung (essentials)
by Tristan MarhenkeDieses essential bietet einen Überblick über Diagnostik, Epidemiologie, Ätiologie und Behandlung sämtlicher sexueller Störungen nach dem Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM-5). Bei den sexuellen Funktionsstörungen werden die verzögerte Ejakulation, die Erektionsstörung, die weibliche Orgasmusstörung, die Störung des sexuellen Interesses bzw. der Erregung bei der Frau, die Genito-Pelvine Schmerz-Penetrationsstörung, die Störung mit verminderter sexueller Appetenz beim Mann und die vorzeitige (frühe) Ejakulation erläutert. Von den verschiedenen Paraphilien werden die voyeuristische Störung, die exhibitionistische Störung, die frotteuristische Störung, die sexuell masochistische Störung, die sexuell sadistische Störung, die pädophile Störung, die transvestitische Störung sowie die fetischistische Störung erklärt. Bei den Geschlechtsdysphorien werden die Geschlechtsdysphorie bei Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen sowie die Geschlechtsdysphorie bei Kindern beschrieben. Studious Sophie und Therapy Tara führen den Leser kenntnisreich durch das Buch.
Sexuelles Grooming: Integration von Forschung, Praxis, Prävention und Politik
by Georgia M. Winters Elizabeth L. JeglicDieses Buch bietet einen ausführlichen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum Thema Sexual Grooming. Es untersucht den Prozess, durch den eine Person, die eine sexuelle Straftat begehen will, ein potenzielles Opfer geschickt in Situationen manipuliert, in denen der Missbrauch leichter begangen werden kann, während gleichzeitig die Offenlegung und Entdeckung verhindert wird. Dieser Band befasst sich mit diesem wenig erforschten Phänomen und untersucht umfassend, was derzeit über dieses Konstrukt bekannt ist. Es bietet eine gründliche Einführung in die Literatur über sexuelles Grooming, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Geschichte des Begriffs liegt und darauf, wie sexuelle Grooming-Strategien durch öffentlichkeitswirksame Fälle und solche in Organisationen, die Kinder betreuen (z. B. katholische Kirche, Boy Scouts of America), öffentlich bekannt geworden sind. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die verschiedenen vorgeschlagenen Modelle des sexuellen Groomings - einschließlich des Sexual Grooming Model (SGM) -, in denen die übergreifenden Schritte oder Phasen des Prozesses beschrieben werden. Es diskutiert Versuche, das Konstrukt des sexuellen Groomings zu definieren, und befasst sich mit den möglichen Folgen des sexuellen Groomings, wobei der Schwerpunkt darauf liegt, wie Opfer, Familien und Gemeinden im Allgemeinen betroffen sein können. Zu den wichtigsten Themenbereichen gehören: Einzigartige Kontexte und Facetten, in denen sexuelles Grooming-Verhalten beobachtet wurde, einschließlich Online-Grooming, persönliches/Self-Grooming, familiäres Grooming, institutionelles Grooming und Grooming-Verhalten von weiblichen Personen. Die Art und Weise, in der sich sexuelle Grooming-Strategien in Fällen von Sexhandel und sexuellem Missbrauch von Erwachsenen manifestieren können. Bewertung und Behandlung von sexuellem Grooming sowie Präventionsstrategien. Durchführung von Grooming-Forschungen als Grundlage für Strafverfolgungsmaßnahmen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen. Die Ausarbeitung und Verabschiedung von Gesetzen und Strategien zur Verhinderung von sexuellem Grooming. Child Sexual Grooming ist ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für Forscher, Professoren, Studenten, Kliniker, Psychotherapeuten, Juristen, politische Entscheidungsträger, Strafverfolgungsbehörden und verwandte Berufsgruppen in den Bereichen Entwicklungspsychologie, Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie, Sozialarbeit, öffentliches Gesundheitswesen, Kriminologie/Strafjustiz, forensische Psychologie sowie Verhaltenstherapie und Rehabilitation.
Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality
by Teresa MilbrodtSexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious. Their creative and comic acts crash, collide, and collaborate with perceptions of disability in literature and dominant culture, allowing people with disabilities to shape political disability identity and disability pride, call attention to social inequalities, and poke back at ableist cultural norms. This book also discusses how the ambivalent nature of comedy has led to debates within disability communities about when it is acceptable to joke, who has permission to joke, and which jokes should be used inside and outside a community’s inner circle. Joking may be difficult when considering aspects of disability that involve physical or emotional pain and struggles to adapt to new forms of embodiment. At the same time, people with disabilities can use humor to expand the definitions of disability and sexuality. They can help others with disabilities assert themselves as sexy and sexual. And they can question social norms and stigmas around bodies in ways that open up journeys of being, not just for individuals who consider themselves disabled, but for all people.
Sh!thouse: A Memoir
by Lauren Dollie DukeSh!thouse: A Memoir is a story of brutal girlhood. Lauren was seven when she helped her step-father boost rum bottles from the local liquor store. The next year, her biological father took her to a hotel room and shot up heroin in the bathroom. The next day he robbed a bank with a finger gun! When he was released from prison, he moved into Lauren’s basement. They spent the weekends smoking cartons of cigarettes, diving into dumpsters and swindling used cars. Lauren’s upbringing provided her with only one lens through which she saw herself – shame. And that shame overflowed into every aspect of her life. In this compassionate and gritty real-life fairytale the author, Lauren Dollie Duke, shows how it’s possible for good people to do bad things and what it takes to create peace with where you come from in order to find true happiness. This raw and humorous account about trauma, transcendence and resilience challenges the binary of good vs. evil. It lays out the evolution of shame psychology and intergenerational trauma seeking to answer the question of how we unravel ourselves from the history and patterns of our families. Sh!thouse will make you want to investigate your own historical patterns, examine all of your relationships, and forgive everyone, including yourself. It’s a tether to our shared humanity which reminds us there is belonging in the world no matter how horrific it was to start. It is a beautifully written map that draws back to the personal root of where sabotaging behavior, shame and limitation is born.
Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue
by Amy FerrisThe silent epidemic of depression affects millions of people and takes dozens of lives everyday, while our culture grapples with a stigma against open discussion of mental health issues. Editor Amy Ferris has collected these stories to illuminate the truth behind that stigma and offer compassion, solidarity, and hope for all those who have struggled with depression.Contributors to Shades of Blue include:Barbara AbercrombieSherry AmatensteinChloe CaldwellJimmy CampDebra LoGuercio DeAngeloMarika Rosenthal DelanHollye DexterBeverly DonofrioBeth Bornstein DunningtonMatthew EbertBetsy Graziani FasbinderZoe FitzGerald CarterPam L. HoustonDavid LacyPatti LinskyMark S. KingCaroline LeavittKaren LynchLira MaywoodC.O. MoedMark MorganLinda Joy MyersChristine Kehl O'HaganJennifer PastiloffRuth PennebakerAngela Giles PatelAlexa RosalskyElizabeth RosnerKathryn RountreeKitty SheehanJenna StonejudywhiteSamantha WhiteShades of Blue brings the conversation around depression and sadness into the open with real, first-hand accounts of depression and mental health issues, offering empathy to all those who have been affected by these issues.It's time to scream out loud against this silent annihilator: We are not alone.
Shades of Light: A Novel
by Sharon Garlough Brown"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed.
Shades of Light Study Guide
by Sharon Garlough BrownSharon Garlough Brown's novel Shades of Light is an exploration of depression, anxiety, caregiving, and the healing journey. In particular, it offers windows into the power of art as a spiritual practice. This six-week study guide is an opportunity for you to reflect on how the experiences of the characters in the novel resonate with your own experience. Daily Scripture readings and reflection questions are accompanied by an invitation to explore creativity through art and prayer collage. You'll also be introduced to the practice of visio divina (meditating on art) through a weekly link to a piece of art by Vincent van Gogh. With simple spiritual practices, this guide offers a healing balm for those in the midst of difficult seasons.
Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School
by Pamela PerryWhat does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high schoolers define white identities, Pamela Perry offers much-needed insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of students in two demographically distinct U. S. high schools--one suburban and predominantly white; the other urban, multiracial, and minority white--Perry shares students' candor about race and self-identification. By examining the meanings students attached (or didn't attach) to their social lives and everyday cultural practices, including their taste in music and clothes, she shows that the ways white students defined white identity were not only markedly different between the two schools but were considerably diverse and ambiguous within them as well. Challenging reductionist notions of whiteness and white racism, this study suggests how we might go "beyond whiteness" to new directions in antiracist activism and school reform. Shades of White is emblematic of an emerging second wave of whiteness studies that focuses on the racial identity of whites. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as to those involved with high school education and antiracist activities.
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
by Marie-Louise von FranzFairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore, her experience as a psychoanalyst and a collaborator with Jung, and her great personal wisdom. Among the many topics discussed in relation to the dark side of life and human psychology, both individual and collective, are: • How different aspects of the "shadow"—all the affects and attitudes that are unconscious to the ego personality—are personified in the giants and monsters, ghosts, and demons, evil kings and wicked witches of fairy tales • How problems of the shadow manifest differently in men and women • What fairy tales say about the kinds of behavior and attitudes that invite evil • How Jung's technique of Active imagination can be used to overcome overwhelming negative emotions • How ghost stories and superstitions reflect the psychology of grieving • What fairy tales advise us about whether to struggle against evil or turn the other cheek Dr. von Franz concludes that ever rule of behavior that we can learn from the unconscious through fairy tales and dreams is usually a paradox: sometimes there must be a physical struggle against evil and sometimes a contest of wits, sometimes a display of strength or magic and sometimes a retreat. Above all, she shows the importance of relying on the central, authentic core of our being—the innermost Self, which is beyond the struggle between the opposites of good and evil.
The Shadow and the Counsellor: Working with the Darker Aspects of the Person, the Role and the Profession
by Steve PageThe Shadow and the Counsellor introduces the concept of shadow, the darker side to ourselves that we do not wish to acknowledge, or do not even recognise. It examines how it comes into being and explores its impact within counselling. The Shadow and the Counsellor is structured around a six stage model which is designed to help the counsellor recognise, confront and deal with their 'shadow' side. This can then be a framework for reflection and practical action.With case studies including short clinical examples to longer examples running through the book, this will give counsellors a new way of approaching their practice.
Shadow Dance
by David RichoOur "shadow" is the collection of negative or undesirable traits we keep hidden--the things we don't like about ourselves or are afraid to admit: egotist, non-"PC" proclivities, forbidden sexual desires. But it also includes our positive, untapped potential--qualities we may admire in others but disavow in ourselves. Befriending the shadow makes fear an ally and enables us to live more authentically. It also automatically improves our interpersonal relationships, because we are freed from the need to project our own negativity onto others, and we become more acutely aware when theirs is projected onto us. David Richo looks for where the shadow manifests in personal life, family interaction, religion, relationship, and the world around is. He shows how to use the gentle practice of mindfulness to work with our shadow side, and he provides numerous exercises for going deeper. He is remarkably skillful at making the shadow concept not only easy to understand, but supremely practical for enhancing the quality of our lives.
Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power & Creativity of Your Dark Side
by David RichoDiscover how to embrace the dark side of your personality—or the shadow self, as introduced by Carl Jung—to live a fuller, more authentic lifeOur &“shadow&” is the collection of negative or undesirable traits we keep hidden—the things we don't like about ourselves or are afraid to admit: egotist, non-&“PC&” proclivities, forbidden sexual desires. But it also includes our positive, untapped potential—qualities we may admire in others but disavow in ourselves. Befriending the shadow makes fear an ally and enables us to live more authentically. It also automatically improves our interpersonal relationships, because we are freed from the need to project our own negativity onto others, and we become more acutely aware when theirs is projected onto us.David Richo looks for where the shadow manifests in personal life, family interaction, religion, relationship, and the world around is. He shows how to use the gentle practice of mindfulness to work with our shadow side, and he provides numerous exercises for going deeper. He is remarkably skillful at making the shadow concept not only easy to understand, but supremely practical for enhancing the quality of our lives.
Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement
by Harriet BrownA riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist.The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. To say that Harriet and her mother had a difficult relationship is a wild understatement; the older Harriet grew, the more estranged they became. By the time Harriet's mom died at age 76, they were out of contact. Yet Harriet felt her death deeply, embarking on an exploration of what family estrangement means--to those who cut off contact, to those who are estranged, to the friends and family members who are on the sidelines.Shadow Daughter tackles a subject we rarely discuss as a culture: family estrangements, especially those between parents and adult children. Estrangements--between parents and children, siblings, multiple generations--are surprisingly common, and even families that aren't officially estranged often have some experience of deep conflicts. Estrangement is an issue that touches most people, one way or another, one that's still shrouded in secrecy, stigma, and shame. In addition to her personal narrative, Harriet employs interviews with others who are estranged, as well as the most recent research on family estrangement, for a brave exploration of this taboo topic. Ultimately, Shadow Daughter is a thoughtful, deeply researched, and provocative exploration of the ties that bind and break, forgiveness, reconciliation, and what family really means.
Shadow Lives: Writings on Widowhood
by Uma Chakravarti Preeti GillThis volume documents the focus on the widow, regarded as the dark half of womankind in tradition, the structural counterpart of the sumangali or the auspicious married woman, and to provide an archive on widowhood.
Shadow Man
by Jeffrey FleishmanForeign correspondent James Ryan was there whenever the world changed: in the Middle East, in the Balkans, in the former Soviet bloc. But now he can't remember these events; he can't recall anything long-term, except the summer of his fifteenth year following his mother's death. It was the summer his father told him to call him Kurt. The summer the mysterious and enchanting Vera burst into their lonely, quiet lives. The summer his own world opened, then irrevocably changed.James, at fifty-two, suffers from a severe case of early onset Alzheimer's. The novel unravels James's predicament through the clear glimpses he retains of that long ago summer, and through the desperate attempts of his wife and his nurse to bring him back to the present, if only for stolen moments. Each has her motives: his wife trying not to lose the man with whom she shared so much - wars, death, love, loss of a child, history. And his nurse, the half sister he never knew he had, needing James's adolescent memory to understand the biological father and mother she never met. Told from the perspective of a man betrayed by his own mind, Shadow Man is a novel of identity and suspense that travels across continents and deep into the pasts that make us each who we are. It explores the power of memory to heal and to mask, and of the limits of unconditional love. Set in Philly and the eastern shore of yesteryear, in the Middle East, and throughout Eastern Europe, Fleishman's trademark descriptive but spare lyricism shines. Shadow Man is a touching and haunting novel perhaps most similar to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, though it is a work of fiction. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
by John Haller Jr.Can Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative therapies. As he explores a possible reconciliation between their conflicting approaches, Haller maintains a healthy, scientific skepticism yet finds promise in select complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. Haller elucidates recent research on the placebo effect and shows how a new engagement between EBM and CAM might lead to a more productive medical practice that includes both the objectivity of evidence-based medicine and the subjective truth of the physician-patient relationship. Haller's book tours key topics in the standoff between EBM and CAM: how and why the double blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) came to be considered the gold standard in modern medicine; the challenge of postmodern medicine as it counters the positivism of evidence-based medicine; and the politics of modern CAM and the rise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He conducts an in-depth case study of homeopathy, explaining why it has emerged as a poster-child for CAM, and assesses CAM's popularity despite its poor performance in clinical trials. Haller concludes with hope, showing how new experimental protocols might tease out the evidentiary basis for the placebo effect and establish a foundation for some reconciliation between EBM and CAM.
Shadow of a Doubt: The twisty psychological thriller inspired by a real life story that will keep you reading long into the night
by Michelle Davies'Pure suspense, where past and present collide with chilling results' Erin Kelly'A hugely entertaining, fast-paced thriller' Caz Frear'It's a pitch-perfect blend of ghostly terror and pacey thriller' Catherine Ryan Howard'Dark, spooky and brilliantly plotted, the perfect read for dark winter nights' Harriet TyceTwenty-six years ago my brother was murdered in my family home.I was sent to a psychiatric unit for killing him.The truth is, I didn't do it.The whole world believed eight-year-old Cara killed her younger brother on that fateful night. But she blamed it on a paranormal entity she swears was haunting her house.No one believed her and after two years of treatment in a psychiatric unit for delusional disorder, Cara was shunned by her remaining family and put into foster care.Now she's being forced to return to the family home for the first time since her brother's death, but what if she's about to re-discover the evil that was lurking inside its walls?
Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-making in Animation
by Donald CraftonAnimation variously entertains, enchants, and offends, yet there have been no convincing explanations of how these films do so. Shadow of a Mouse proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons. Donald Crafton’s interdisciplinary methods draw on film and theater studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and performance studies to outline a personal view of animated cinema that illuminates its systems of belief and world making. <p><p>He wryly asks: Are animated characters actors and stars, just like humans? Why do their performances seem live and present, despite our knowing that they are drawings? Why is animation obsessed with distressing the body? Why were California regional artists and Stanislavsky so influential on Disney? Why are the histories of animation and popular theater performance inseparable? How was pictorial space constructed to accommodate embodied acting? Do cartoon performances stimulate positive or negative behaviors in audiences? Why is there so much extreme eating? And why are seemingly insignificant shadows vitally important? <p><p>Ranging from classics like The Three Little Pigs to contemporary works by Švankmajer and Plympton, these essays will engage the reader’s imagination as much as the subject of animation performance itself.
The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known
by Christopher BollasIn The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud’s theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character. During our formative years, we are continually "impressed" by the object world. Most of this experience will never be consciously thought, and but it resides within us as assumed knowledge. Bollas has termed this "the unthought known", a phrase that has ramified through many realms of human exploration, including the worlds of letters, psychology and the arts. Aspects of the unthought known --the primary repressed unconscious --will emerge during a psychoanalysis, as a mood, the aesthetic of a dream, or in our relation to the self as other. Within the unique analytic relationship, it becomes possible, at least in part, to think the unthought -- an experience that has enormous transformative potential. Published here with a new preface by Christopher Bollas, The Shadow of the Object remains a classic of the psychoanalytic literature, written by a truly original thinker.
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
by Jessica BenjaminShadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognizable. The second understands and recognizes this other by its function as a repository of characteristics cast from oneself. In recognizing how this dual relationship is reconciled within the self, and its implications in male/female relations, Jessica Benjamin continues her exploration of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up questions of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.
The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and nannies in theories of infant development
by Prophecy ColesThe Shadow of the "Second Mother" explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that ‘second mothers’, such as wet nurses and nannies, have had upon the emotional life of the children they have nursed. For the last three thousand years and throughout most civilisations they have nurtured the children of the privileged, and kept alive the abandoned and unwanted child, and yet there has been a profound silence surrounding the influence they may have had. The author explores the lives of several well-known people who have been wet nursed, such as Michelangelo, Rousseau, Jack London, Nabokov and Klein. She speculates that they all were affected emotionally by their ‘second mother’, and concludes that a universal feature of such delegated mothering seems to be that the bond between mother and child is broken, and the child may be left with a life-long distrust of close relationships. In The Shadow of the "Second Mother", Coles combines an exploration of attachment theory with neurology, making it possible to give an explanation as to why these important figures have lain unnamed and ignored in our social and psychological consciousness. This intriguing new approach to an ancient practice will be fascinating reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, sociologist and students of social history.
The Shadow of the Tsunami: and the Growth of the Relational Mind
by Philip M. BrombergDuring early development, every human being is exposed to the relative impact of relational trauma – disconfirmation of aspects of oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of others – in shaping both the capacity for spontaneous human relatedness and the relative vulnerability to "adult-onset trauma." To one degree or another, a wave of dysregulated affect – a dissociated "tsunami" – hits the immature mind, and if left relationally unprocessed leaves a fearful shadow that weakens future ability to regulate affect in an interpersonal context and reduces the capacity to trust, sometimes even experience, authentic human discourse. In his fascinating third book, Philip Bromberg deepens his inquiry into the nature of what is therapeutic about the therapeutic relationship: its capacity to move the psychoanalytic process along a path that, bit by bit, shrinks a patient's vulnerability to the pursuing shadow of affective destabilization while simultaneously increasing intersubjectivity. What takes places along this path does not happen because "this" led to "that," but because the path is its own destination – a joint achievement that underlies what is termed in the subtitle "the growth of the relational mind." Expanding the self-state perspective of Standing in the Spaces (1998) and Awakening the Dreamer (2006), Bromberg explores what he holds to be the two nonlinear but interlocking rewards of successful treatment – healing and growth. The psychoanalytic relationship is illuminated not as a medium for treating an illness but as an opportunity for two human beings to live together in the affectively enacted shadow of the past, allowing it to be cognitively symbolized by new cocreated experience that is processed by thought and language – freeing the patient's natural capacity to feel trust and joy as part of an enduring regulatory stability that permits life to be lived with creativity, love, interpersonal spontaneity, and a greater sense of meaning.
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
by Craig LambertWith the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work.Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations. It has slipped into our routines stealthily; most of us do not realize how much of it we are already doing, even as we pump our own gas, scan and bag our own groceries, execute our own stock trades, and build our own unassembled furniture. But its presence is unmistakable, and its effects far-reaching.Fueled by the twin forces of technology and skyrocketing personnel costs, shadow work has taken a foothold in our society. Lambert terms its prevalence as "middle-class serfdom," and examines its sources in the invasion of robotics, the democratization of expertise, and new demands on individuals at all levels of society. The end result? A more personalized form of consumption, a great social leveling (pedigrees don't help with shadow work!), and the weakening of communities as robotics reduce daily human interaction.Shadow Work offers a field guide to this new phenomenon. It shines a light on these trends now so prevalent in our daily lives and, more importantly, offers valuable insight into how to counter their effects. It will be essential reading to anyone seeking to understand how their day got so full-and how to deal with the ubiquitous shadow work that surrounds them.