tailieunhanh - A Population of Selves: A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal Diversity

In this important book, Erving Polster - coauthor of the landmark work "Gestalt Therapy Integrated" - greatly expands the therapeutic utility of the concept of self. A Population of Selves offers therapists new ways of thinking about the self, as well as specific procedures to help patients realize a powerful and healthy sense of self: a goal at the very heart of the therapeutic process. In an innovative expansion of therapeutic theory, Polster shows how the human reflex to summarize and animate experiences serves as a natural springboard for the formation of selves. He enlarges the therapeutic aim of synthesizing. | SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY PIUS LIBRARY xpgen P645 1995 ISBN 0-7879-0076-1 3 RC 489 I .S43 P645 1995 Erving Polster A Population of Selves A Therapeutic Exploration of Personal Diversity 43 ms Jossey-Bass Publishers San Francisco s Copyright 1995 bv Jossev-Bass Inc. Publishers 350 Sansome Street. San Francisco California 94104. Copyright under International. Pan American and Universal Copyright Conventions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form except for brief quotation not to exceed 1 000 words in a review or professional work without permission in writing from the publishers. The Poem Death of a Psychiatrist for Volta Hall in chapter Seven IS reprinted from A Private Mythology by May Sarton with the permission of w. w. Norton Company Inc. Copyright 1966 by May Sarton. In the United Kingdom reprinted with the permission of A. M. Heath. Substantial discounts on bulk quantities of Jossey-Bass books are available to corporations professional associations and other otganuanons. For details and discount information contact the special sales department at Josscv-Bass Inc. Publishers. 415 433-1740 Fax 800 605-2665. For sales outside the United Stares please contact your local Paramount publishing International office. A Manufactured in the United States of America on Lyons Falls Pathfinder l T Tradebook. This paper is acid-free and 100 percent totally chlorine-free. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Polster Erving. A population of selves a therapeutic exploration of personal diversiry Ervmg Polster. 1st. cd. p. cm. The Jossev-Bass social and behavioral science series Includes bibliographical references p. 239 and index. ISBN 0-7879-0076-1 acid-free paper I. Self psychology. 2. Gestalt therapy. 1. Title. 11. Series Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series. 1995 dc20 94-42595 HB Printing 10 987654321 FIRST edition Contents Preface .ix The Part One How the Self Is Formed 1. .