Polarities of Experience: Relatedness and Self-Definition in Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process

by Sidney J. Blatt and Head of the Research Department of Clinical Educational and Health Psychology and Freud Memorial Pro

In this groundbreaking book, Sidney J. Blatt proposes that psychological development is a lifelong personal negotiation between the two fundamental dimensions of relatedness and self-definition. Psychological development, from youth to old age, is a synergistic balancing act between these two polarities, with most individuals favoring to varying degrees either the anaclitic (relatedness) dimension or the introjective (self-definition) dimension. Exaggerated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433803143
• ISBN13: 9781433803147
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 10.0"