Bad Feelings: Selected Psychoanalytic Essays

by Roy Schafer

Overview

Everyone experiences "bad" feelings - guilt, shame, humiliation, envy and more. Yet despite the fact that such emotions are a common occurrence, these painful feelings are often labelled as wrong, a moralistic determination that can complicate existing problems in the individual's emotional life. Through careful research and assessment of psychoanalytical methods, this book offers a new understanding of how painful emotional states can find relief through the talking cure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367107307
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2019
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction , A Joyless Life , Disappointment and Disappointedness , Forms of Extreme Shame: Humiliation and Mortification , Envy: Revisiting Melanie Klein’s “Envy and Gratitude” , The Psychotherapist’s Absence , Defenses Against Goodness , Experiencing Termination: Authentic and False Depressive Positions , Painful Progress: The Negative Therapeutic Reaction Reconceived , Afterword