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CONFERENCIAS SOBRE AION, LAS es un libro del autor EDINGER, ED. editado por SIRENA DE LOS VIENTOS. CONFERENCIAS SOBRE AION, LAS tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-88540-44-7, de la colección FONDO.

A wise generous book Washington PostFrom acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive To give up or not to give up The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple Giving up our supposed vices is one thing giving up on life itself is quite another One form of self sacrifice feels positive something to admire and aspire to while the other is profoundly unsettling if not actively undesirable There are always it turns out both good and bad sacrifices but it is not always clear beforehand which is which We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are In this sense giving up is a critical moment an attempt to make a different future In On Giving Up acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question what must we give up in order to feel more alive One of the finest prose stylists in the language an Emerson of our time John Banville The best living essayist writing in English John Gray

pWhat happens when our minds and bodies are pushed beyond their limits Vincent Deary is a health psychologist who has spent years helping his patients cope with whatever life has thrown at them Ini How We Breaki he has written a book for all of us who sometimes feel we have reached our breaking pointbrbrDrawing on clinical case studies cuttingedge scientific research intimate personal stories and references from philosophy literature and film iHow We Break ioffers a consoling new vision of everyday human struggle The big traumas in life Deary points out are relatively rare More common is when too many things go wrong at once or we are exposed to prolonged periods of difficulty or precarity When the world shrinks to nothing but our daily coping we become unhappy worried hopeless exhausted In other words we break Breaking he shows us happens when the same systems that enable us to navigate through life become dysregulated But if we understand ihowi the wear and tear of life affects us then we have a better chance of navigating through times of burnout stress fatigue and despairbrbrBy equipping us with a better understanding of what happens to us when were struggling to cope and making a bold case for the power of rest and recuperation iHow We Breaki helps chart a path th

MARTA GLASSERMAN (1946-1999), psicoanalista. La memoria duradera de su enseñanza ha hecho que se recuperen y se repasen sus muy bien conservados cuadernos de cursos y conferencias, con el deseo de ir paulatinamente dandolos a conocer a los estudiosos de

Ser consciente del modo en el que tiendo a funcionar hace posible que evalúe mis actitudes y comportamientos en una situación dada y que pueda ajustarlos. Me permite compensar mi disposición personal y ser tolerante hacia alguien que no funciona como yo -alguien que tiene, quizas, una fortaleza o una facilidad que a mi me falta. La pregunta importante no es si uno es introvertido o extravertido, o cual es la funcion superior o inferior, sino, mas pragmaticamente: en esta situacion o con aquella persona, ¿como he funcionado?, ¿con que efecto? Mis acciones y el modo en el que me exprese, ¿reflejaban realmente mis juicios (pensamiento y sentimiento) y percepciones (sensacion e intuicion)? Y de no ser ese el caso, ¿por que no?, ¿que complejos se activaron en mi?, ¿con que fin?, ¿como y por que estropee las cosas?, ¿que dice esto sobre mi psicologia?, ¿que puedo hacer para solucionarlo?, ¿que quiero hacer para solucionarlo? La idea final aqui debe ser que, dejando aparte las implicaciones clinicas del modelo de Jung de tipologia, su principal importancia continua siendo la perspectiva que ofrece al individuo sobre su personalidad.