Polarities of Experience Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
by Blatt, Sidney J.Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2008-02-15
Publisher(s): American Psychological Association
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Summary
Proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between two fundamental dimensions in human affairs, relatedness, and self-definition. Topics include fundamental dimensions in personality and social theory, personality development, and the therapeutic process. For psychotherapists.
Author Biography
Sydney J. Blatt joined the faculty of the psychology department at Yale University in 1960, and in 1964 he also assumed the post of chief of the psychology section in the Department of Psychiatry.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Relatedness and Self-Definition: A Fundamental Polarity of Experience | p. 13 |
| Fundamental Dimensions in Personality and Social Theory | p. 15 |
| Personality Development | p. 41 |
| Developmental Antecedents of Relatedness and Self-Definition | p. 43 |
| Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development | p. 71 |
| Dialectical Development of Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Definition | p. 99 |
| Personality Organization and Psychopathology | p. 131 |
| Two Primary Configurations of Personality Organization | p. 133 |
| Two Primary Configurations of Psychopathology | p. 165 |
| The Therapeutic Process | p. 201 |
| Relatedness and Self-Definition and Therapeutic Change | p. 203 |
| Relatedness and Self-Definition in the Therapeutic Process | p. 243 |
| Epilogue | p. 285 |
| References | p. 297 |
| Author Index | p. 373 |
| Subject Index | p. 387 |
| About the Author | p. 403 |
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