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Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of Shame

Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of Shame

Ayers, Mary Y.

Paperback

CognitionGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1583912886
ISBN13: 9781583912881
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Winner of the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

The issue of shame has become a central topic for many writers and therapists in recent years, but it is debatable how much real understanding of this powerful and pervasive emotion we have achieved. Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life. The author further expands on this concept of the look through a powerful and extensive study of the concept of the Evil Eye, an enduring universal belief that eyes have the power to inflict injury. Finally, she presents ways of healing shame within a clinical setting, and provides a fascinating analysis of the role of eye-contact in the therapeutic encounter.

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