The Damaged Core: Origins, Dynamics, Manifestations, and Treatment

by Salman Akhtar

Book Overview

This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things back together. Beginning with the child's early relationships and their internalization as the substrate of the self, the text moves on to psychodynamically sophisticated and developmentally anchored descriptions of certain psychopathological syndromes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765706717
• ISBN13: 9780765706713
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"