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Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another

Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another

Josselson, Ruthellen

Paperback

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0765704889
ISBN13: 9780765704887
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: Jun 18 2007
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just are, there are complicated psychological processes, outside of our awareness, that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct.
Psychoanalytic theory offers a wealth of understanding of how people unconsciously create what they both need and dread. But these processes are not well understood by most therapists. Too often, therapists join their patients in overlooking their own role in creating the relationships in their lives, such that it seems that patients were simply unfortunate to have an un-giving mother or to find an unloving spouse. Because processes of creation in relationship are largely unconscious, they are much harder to see. As a result, most theorists of relationships acknowledge that they exist, but offer little language or explication for how they unfold or manifest themselves. Playing Pygmalion is an effort to trace in psychological terms the subtle interplay by which people create the other.

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