Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another

by Ruthellen Josselson

Book Overview

Like Pygmalion with his Galatea, we create the characters of people in our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just 'are', there are complicated psychological processes, outside of our awareness, that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct. Psychoanalytic theory offers a wealth of understanding of how people unconsciously create what they both need and dread. But these processes are not well understood by most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765704889
• ISBN13: 9780765704887
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Provocative and Insightful

Dr Josselson's book is written in a highly readable manner that will be of great benefit not just to academics and therapists, but also to anyone seeking to better understand how we find and create the relationships we need (or think we need) and the unconscious processes associated with that effort. Highly insightful! Teresa A Daniel