Ebook: Beyond the Frustrated Self : Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life.

This book foregrounds the life struggles of a single ""frustrated"" individual so that argument and theoretical exploration arise organically out of experience. The approach is integrative, enlisting a variety of models of therapy - psychodynamic, body-oriented, Gestalt, existential - as well as neuroscience, philosophy, and literature. The book also shows how developmental deficits interact with socio-cultural tendencies to amplify existential difficulties. The ""frustration"" of the title is traced to avoidant attachment - pretending not to need others. In Brenda, the case study whose experie.  Read more...