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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461719603321

Autore

Grier Francis

Titolo

Oedipus and the Couple / / by Francis Grier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2004

ISBN

0-429-90246-8

0-429-47769-4

1-283-24896-4

9786613248961

1-84940-435-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Tavistock Clinic series

Disciplina

150.19/52

Soggetti

Oedipus complex

Psychoanalysis

Couples therapy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: On being able to be a couple: the importance of a "creative couple" in psychic life; CHAPTER TWO: Reflective space in the intimate couple relationship: the "marital triangle"; CHAPTER THREE: The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems come in twos and threes; CHAPTER FOUR: Coming into one's own: the oedipus complex and the couple in late adolescence; CHAPTER FIVE: Shadows of the parental couple: oedipal themes in 101 Bergman's Fanny and Alexander

CHAPTER SIX: "It seemed to have to do with something else . . ." 121 Henry James' What Maisie Knew and Bion's theory of thinking CHAPTER SEVEN: The painful truth; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Oedipus complex as observed in work with 163 couples and their children; CHAPTER NINE: Oedipus gets married: an investigation of a couple's shared oedipal drama; CHAPTER TEN: No Sex couples, catastrophic change, and the



primal scene; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps the reader feel that there is a basic underlying unity to facilitate meaningful links between the ideas and themes in different chapters. The chapters have been organized into three sections. Whilst united in the focus on the Oedipus situation, the individual styles and voices of the authors are very varied. The first three chapters are primarily theoretical. The second section comprises chapters that make use of artistic and cultural themes from the worlds of literature and film to explore Oedipal couple issues. The final section consists of chapters that are specifically clinical in their focus. The manifest focus in most chapters is on the couple, but there are variations on this theme.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910863115003321

Autore

Fadgen Timothy Philip

Titolo

Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context : A Comparative Study of Policy Transfer in Samoa and Tonga / / by Timothy Philip Fadgen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-6479-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 221 p. 4 illus.)

Disciplina

026.3622102573

Soggetti

Political planning

Constitutional law

Law - Philosophy

Law - History

Economic development

Globalization

Public Policy

Constitutional Law

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Common Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Setting the stage for discussion: how do public policies move? -- Chapter 3. What is ‘mental health’ and is it a universal concept? -- Chapter 4. Is there a global mental health policy system and what is it? -- Chapter 5. Samoa’s Mental Health System in Historical Context -- Chapter 6. Tonga’s Mental Health System in Historical Context -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. Beginning in the 1990s, mental health became an area of global policy concern as reflected in concerted international organisation and bilateral aid and development agendas, most notably those of the World Bank, World Health Organization, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand. This book highlights how Tonga and Samoa both reformed their respective mental health systems during these years, after relatively long periods of stagnation. Using recent scholarship concerning public policy transfer, this book explains these policy outcomes and expands it to include consideration of the historical institutional dimensions evidenced by contemporary mental health systems. This book considers three distinct levels of policy implicated in mental health system transfer processes from developed to developing nations: colonial authority and influence; decolonisation processes; and the global development agenda surrounding health systems. In the process, the author argues that there are in fact three levels of policy change that must be accounted for in examining contemporary policy change. These policy levels include formal policy transfers, which tend to be prescriptive, involving professional problem construction and the designation of appropriate state apparatus for curative or custodial care provision; quasi-formal transfers, which tend to be aspirational and involve policy instruments developed through collaborative, participatory processes; and informal transfers that tend to be normative and include practices by professional actors in delivering service merged with traditional cultural beliefs as to disease aetiology as well as reflecting a deep understanding of the cultural context within which the services will be delivered. This book argues that a renewed focus on the importance of public policy and government institutional capacity is necessary to ensure human rights and justice are secured. .