Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another

By Ruthellen Josselson

Book Overview

We create the characters that people our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just 'are', there are complicated unconscious psychological processes that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct. This book analyzes how four pairs of people, central in each other's lives, 'create' one another. It demonstrates how each of us is like a theater director, casting others into roles on our stage, even as others are casting us into their dramas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765704889
• ISBN13: 9780765704887
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Provocative and Insightful

Dr Josselson's book is written in a highly readable manner that will be of great benefit not just to academics and therapists, but also to anyone seeking to better understand how we find and create the relationships we need (or think we need) and the unconscious processes associated with that effort. Highly insightful! Teresa A Daniel