An understanding of the symbolism of the child in dreams can help us make contact with our own inner childâboth the child we once were and the spontaneous, childlike side of our nature. Using examples of dreamwork from her analytical practice as well as themes from art, children's literature, and folklore, Dr. Asper shows how the motif of the child may point to: Â Â Â •Â Important information about forgotten experiences of the past Â Â Â •Â New and future possibilities in our lives, especially during depression or transitional periods such as midlife Â Â Â •Â Our capacity for play, creativity, and joy Â Â Â •Â A renewal of spiritual life and the rediscovery of a lost childlike faith Â Â Â •Â A way to hear the psychological wounds of childhood and embrace the future more freely and innocently

The Inner Child in Dreams

Asper, Kathrin

Self-Help

Shambhala

The Abandoned Child Within: On Losing and Regaining Self-Worth

Lack of self-worth is an affliction that has become of increasing concern in all industrialized societies. It is the main symptom of what psychiatry calls narcissistic disturbance, a phenomenon far more widespread than it was when Freud and Jung developed their concepts of depth psychology. The lack of commonly held values has contributed to it, but is not its cause. In this in-depth examination, Kathrin Asper, a noted psychotherapist and president of the Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology, addresses the real cause: lack of self-worth as a direct consequence of physical or emotional abandonment during childhood. The wounded inner child lives on in the adult, expressing himself in such symptoms as fear of abandonment, lack of feeling, grandiosity and depression, insufficient awareness of one's own life, disproportionate rage, and unclear needs. However, those suffering from a lack of self-worth tend to forget the early-life incidents that hurt their inner self: the child within suffers, but is mute. To heal the early wounds, we have to get in touch with the inner child and make her talk. In The Abandoned Child Within, Dr. Asper shows how this is accomplished. Using concrete case histories from her own practice, paintings by patients, dreams, fairy tales, and myths, she vividly describes the consequences of abandonment, and ways to unleash the creative powers of the unconscious, which can initiate a healing transformation.

Fromm Intl

Medical Books

Psychology

An understanding of the symbolism of the child in dreams can help us make contact with our own inner child-both the child we once were and the spontaneous, childlike side of our nature. Using examples of dreamwork from her analytical practice as well as themes from art, children's literature, and folklore, Dr. Asper shows how the motif of the child may point to: Important information about forgotten experiences of the past . New and future possibilities in our lives, especially during depression or transitional periods such as midlife. Our capacity for play, creativity, and joy. A renewal of spiritual life and the rediscovery of a lost childlike faith. A way to hear the psychological wounds of childhood and embrace the future more freely and innocently

Inner Child in Dreams (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)

Personal Transformation

Verlassenheit und Selbstentfremdung.

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch

Von der Kindheit zum Kind in uns: Lebenshilfe aus dem Unbewussten (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Walter-Verlag

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