Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment - Hardcover

Nelson, Judith Kay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041594967X ISBN 13: 9780415949675

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Seeing Through Tears is a groundbreaking examination of crying behavior and the meaning behind our tears. Drawing from attachment theory and her own original research, Judith Nelson presents an exciting new view of crying as a part of our inborn equipment for establishing and maintaining emotional connections. In a comprehensive look at crying through the life cycle, this insightful volume presents a novel theoretical framework before offering useful and practical advice for dealing with this most fundamental of human behaviors.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Kay Nelson Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, teacher and writer. She has written extensively about crying and attachment and has lectured on this topic to professional and general audiences in the United States and Europe. She teaches clinical theory at the California Institute for Clinical Social Work and maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California.

Review:

This extraodinary work of both remarkable scholarship and exquisite sensitivity will become a standard on the subject..
–-Allan N. Schore, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine; author, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self

[This book] puts psychological, developmental, psysiological, and cultural influences on crying (and not crying) into a single framework, making sense of a deeply human experience that often seems beyond words..
–-Phillip R. Shaver, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California at Davis; co-editor, Handbook of Attachment

...a major breakthrough and a rich source of inspirartion for crying researchers. Seeing Through Tears is a tasty blend of case studies, research, and theory which yields an impressive analysis of the many different reasons why we shed emotional tears..
–-Ad Vingerhoets, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; editor, Adult Crying

This book advances our understanding of the function and meaning of tears in the therapeutic setting..
–-Pat Sable, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, School of Social Work, University of Southern California; author, Attachment and Adult Psychotherapy

This book is unique inits aim to develop a theoryof crying throughout the human life-time, and in the therapeutic context. I particularly appreciated the conclusion that crying can be unpremeditated art - poetry streaming down our cheeks..
–-Jean Sanville, Ph.D., author, The Playground of Psychoanalytic Therapy

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 041594967X
• ISBN 13: 9780415949675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256