Envy is Not Innate: A New Model of Thinking (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy) - Softcover

Polledri, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178049002X ISBN 13: 9781780490021

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive revision of the notion of envy, suggesting that envy is not innate and proposing some fresh ideas about its relation to psychopathology, offering a working model of development which is highly relevant to clinical practice.

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About the Author

Patricia Polledri, PhD, is a forensic psychotherapist in private practice in London. She has spent many years furthering understanding of developmental psychopathology in order to produce a workable model that is relevant to clinical practice. She has developed her ideas both from clinical experience and from academic research at University College London Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, and at the University of Sussex, School of Law, Politics and Sociology.

Review

"In this imposing and groundbreaking book, Polledri encourages us to look beyond easily accepted traditional psychoanalytic concepts, such as envy and the psychopathology associated with it. The reader will be challenged with both old and new ways of thinking about the nature of the mother–baby relationship that will undoubtedly prove helpful in both clinical and theoretical work. It is with pride that I endorse this book written by an early student of the diploma course in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock & Portman Clinic NHS Trust." (Estela Welldon, MD DSc (Hon) F.R.C.Psych, author of Playing with Dynamite and Mother, Madonna, Whore and founder & Honorary Life President)

"This is a rich and sophisticated book by an experienced therapist in the field of forensic psychotherapy. Patricia Polledri has skilfully reviewed a number of complex academic discourses (psychoanalytic, ethological, neurobiological) to produce an account of envy that is empirically based, and clinically meaningful. The book is illustrated with clinical examples that support the thesis and demonstrate the suffering caused by envy in its various manifestations. I hope practising analysts will read this book and use it as a basis for teaching and training the psychoanalytic therapists of the future." (Dr Gwen Adshead, consultant forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 178049002X
• ISBN 13: 9781780490021
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224