Difficult Identities: The Work of Identity in Human Life

ISBN-13: 9781782206217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 152 str.

Pia De Silvestris

Opis

Through clinical illustrations and theoretical considerations, Difficult Identities discusses the centrality of transference in helping young patients overcome the difficulties in constructing their identity.

 

Spis treści

ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- PREFACE by Maria Luisa Algini -- INTRODUCTION by Maurizio Balsamo -- CHAPTER ONE Difficult identity -- CHAPTER TWO Interminable illusion -- CHAPTER THREE -- Identity: internal objects and the superego CHAPTER FOUR -- Identity: from oedipal vicissitudes to adolescence -- CHAPTER FIVE -- The laborious integration of the body image in adolescence

O autorze

Pia De Silvestris is a psychotherapist who lives and practises in Rome. She is a full member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples (SIPsIA) and the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SIPP), and teaches on the training programmes of both societies. She has published widely in psychoanalytic journals, and has co-authored several books in Italian, among which are Transference in Child Psychoanalysis (1994); Childhood Depression (1997); Transcribing the Unconscious (2002); Awareness and Self-Analysis (2005).