Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy

For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a...
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Author: Jean Knox
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Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy by Knox, Jean

Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy

$220.85

Self-Agency in Psychotherapy: Attachment, Autonomy, and Intimacy

$220.85
Author: Jean Knox
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

For each of us, our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, and fantasies constitute our own sense of a unique identity. Here, Jungian and relational psychoanalyst Jean Knox argues that this experience of self-agency is always at the heart of psychological growth and development, and it follows a developmental trajectory that she examines in detail, from the realm of bodily action and reaction in the first few months of life, through the emergence of different levels of agency, to the mature expression of agency in language and metaphor.

Knox makes the case that the achievement of a secure sense of self-agency lies at the heart of any successful psychotherapy, and argues for an updated psychoanalytic therapy rooted in a developmental and intersubjective approach. Drawing on a range of therapeutic disciplines--including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and developmental research--she proposes an integrated and flexible clinical approach that is based on the actual interpersonal agency of analyst and patient, rather than any one specific theory about the human unconscious being imposed on the patient by the analyst's interpretations. Detailed clinical examples explore this approach.

Part of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, Self-Agency in Psychotherapy deftly balances theory and practice, offering practical applications for groundbreaking research on self-agency.



Author: Jean Knox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/06/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780393705591


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 8

About the Author
Knox, Jean: - Jean Knox is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in Oxford, England. She is Senior Member and Training Therapist of the British Association of Psychotherapists, a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, Consultant Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent.

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