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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Denting my thick skull | |
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A fable: Mom, Dad, and me, me, me | |
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Wisdom can be learned | |
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Casting | |
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Therapy as cure: the medical model | |
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No family is ever normal | |
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Therapy as investment: the economic model | |
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Therapy as plea: the legal model | |
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Therapy as redemption | |
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Life is absurdly, awesomely ugly and beautiful | |
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Psychic monsters don't need redeeming | |
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A monster can be contagious | |
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Unredeemable Narcissus | |
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Boundary issues: �You, science. Me, humanities.� | |
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The confusing definition of depth psychology | |
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Schools, labels, egos, copyrights, money | |
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What is deep about the psyche? | |
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Brother philosophy, sister psychology | |
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Useful wounding | |
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The archetype of Mother | |
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The Great Mother: the cradle and the cage | |
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Do I love you or do I need you? | |
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Avoiding neurotic contracts | |
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�Soft� does not imply �infantile� | |
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Get off the cross, we need the wood | |
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Here is your mother: Thou Shall Not Devour Her | |
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Cring is active | |
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The maternal quality of a country, a house, a garden | |
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The archetype of Father | |
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Bad cop/good cop: not a literal reality | |
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The Father principle in therapy | |
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There is no absolute adult | |
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The alchemy of psychic maturation | |
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Therapy as alchemy | |
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Sorry, Oedipus | |
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You love me at last? Too late! | |
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Talking to children as a philosopher would | |
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The invisibility of the psyche | |
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Cynicism is not lucidity, criticism is not contempt | |
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The ultimate virtual reality game | |
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Fictionalizing is inevitable | |
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The fabrication of a myth, the dismantling of a lie | |
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The dramatic modal of psychological life | |
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A script is made of words, gestures, costume, d�cor | |
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A Myth is a metaphorical story | |
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Who is telling the story? | |
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Bigotry offered as expertise | |
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How is psychology a mythology? | |
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Joy: the antidote to anxiety | |
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Anxiety: the fear without image | |
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Depression: a flattened imagination | |
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I lost my cherry | |
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Appendix: Schools of thought are families, biographies their family tree | |
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Bibliography | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |