The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance

Polly Young-Eisendrath

Little, Brown Spark

The Cambridge Companion To Jung

Cambridge University Press

Provocative and vital, this groundbreaking book delves into the complex world of female desire and discovers that, sadly, women often want to be wanted rather than to be fully engaged with life. Instead of being able to know what they really want or who they really are, women have been conditioned to accept images -- the good daughter, the nice friend, the ideal boss, the perfect mother -- to define themselves through reflections from others. As a result, self-direction, self-determination, and self-confidence are undermined from adolescence through old age. A double bind comes to surround female desire: a woman is damned as "the bitch" if she is direct and self-determining; but she is confused and indirect if she plays the Object of Desire. Dr. Young-Eisendrath shows us how to break out of this double bind so that we can encounter the challenges of choice and responsibility for our own desires. She wisely uses mythological and personal stories to help us take control of our sexual, relational, material, and spiritual lives. If you feel confused, resentful, or trapped in a life that does not seem to be fully yours, then you can find a clear path to your true self, once and for all, with the help of Women and Desire.

Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Three Rivers Press

Most of us are in retreat from the pain & suffering connected to the hardships in our lives. Suffering, however, is a part of the human condition, & also one of the engines of human development. This is a book about the insight, compassion, & renewal of life's suffering & pain. The author, a Jungian analyst, shows us how to move beyond our pain toward hope & understanding. While pain is unavoidable, we can learn & grow through the experience, or we can remain locked in a cycle of chaos & more suffering. Illuminates the lives of four people who have faced tremendous hardships, yet have found renewed insight & compassion as a result.

Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion, and Renewal

Self-Help

Diane Pub Co.

The Psychology of Mature Spirituality: Integrity, Wisdom, Transcendence

Melvin Miller

Routledge

Subject to Change: Jung, Gender and Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis

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