Meaning-Fullness: Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 96870
- ISBN 13 : 9781800131330
- ISBN 10 : 9781800131
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Meaning and Meaninglessness
Chapter 1. The epidemic crisis of mental health
Chapter 2. Current practices and corrupt science
Chapter 3. The existential vacuum: meaninglessness and filling the void
Chapter 4. The origin of the capacity for meaning-making
Chapter 5. Language and the body
PART II: Play and Creativity in Child and Adult Development
Chapter 6. The value of illusion
Chapter 7. Play and work
Chapter 8. Creativity: living falsely or authentically
Chapter 9. The object of desire and how to destroy it
PART III: Towards Meaning-Fullness
Chapter 10. Meaning’s emergence in potential space
Chapter 11. Beyond Winnicott: I play therefore I am
Chapter 12. Play and symbolisation in the professional relationship
PART IV. Luke: Finding Meaning through Developmental Psychotherapy
Chapter 13. Working with Luke: a full-length case study
Unscientific Postscript
References
About the author
Index