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Compassionate Child-rearing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Firestone, Robert W.

Psychology & Counseling

Da Capo Press

The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

Catlett, Joyce

Mental Health

Routledge

How much of our identity or 'self' is truly representative of our own wants, needs, and goals in life and how much does it reflect the desires and priorities of someone else? Are we following our own destiny or are we unconsciously repeating the lives of our parents, living according to their values, ideals, and beliefs? In this thought-provoking book, noted clinical psychologist Robert Firestone and his co-authors explore the struggle that all of us face in striving to retain a sense of ourselves as unique individuals. The self is under siege from several sources: primarily pain and rejection in the developmental years, problems in relationships, detrimental societal forces, and existential realities that affect all people. Through numerous case studies and personal stories from men and women who participated in a 35-year observational study, the authors illustrate how voice therapy, a cognitive/affective/behavioral methodology pioneered by Firestone, is used to elicit, identify, and challenge the destructive inner voice and to change aversive behaviors based on its prescriptions. The theory they describe integrates the psychodynamic and existential approaches underlying voice therapy and is enriched by research findings in the neurosciences, attachment research, and terror management theory (TMT). An important addition to the area of personality development theory, The Self under Siege offers a new perspective on differentiation and the battle to separate ourselves from the chains of the past. It provides psychotherapists and other mental health professionals with the tools needed to help clients differentiate from the dysfunctional attitudes and toxic personality traits of their parents, other family members, and harmful societal influences that have unconsciously dominated their lives. This book will have a special appeal to clients and, in fact, to any person interested in his/her own personal development

The Self Under Siege

Firestone, Lisa

Combating Destructive Thought Processes: Voice Therapy and Separation Theory

What keeps people from living in ways that satisfy their individual needs and priorities? This book explores psychotherapist Robert W Firestone′s voice therapy technique, the goal of which is to uncover these limiting forces, which are represented by internal messages or voices.  Firestone maintains that from childhood, people are prevented from experiencing an individuated life by the pressures of society, particularly the nuclear family. He expounds the theory, which synthesizes psychodynamic and existential approaches, behind his technique. He demonstrates how the therapy helps clients reveal these voices quickly, recognize their source and begin to take a path to a meaningful life.

Sage Publications, Inc.

What keeps people from living in ways that satisfy their individual needs and priorities? This book explores psychotherapist Robert W Firestone′s voice therapy technique, the goal of which is to uncover these limiting forces, which are represented by internal messages or voices. Firestone maintains that from childhood, people are prevented from experiencing an individuated life by the pressures of society, particularly the nuclear family. He expounds the theory, which synthesizes psychodynamic and existential approaches, behind his technique. He demonstrates how the therapy helps clients reveal these voices quickly, recognize their source and begin to take a path to a meaningful life.

Suicide and the Inner Voice: Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management

What internal factors cause a person to end his or her life, and what are the familial and societal factors which seem to make a destructive contribution? The answers to both questions are at the heart of this volume, which will be invaluable for practitioners when assessing risk and designing treatment for depressed and suicidal patients. The author argues that the key to understanding suicidal behaviour comes from a knowledge of the destructive thought processes of those at risk, and an awareness of their origins in early family interactions. Firestone sees negative events in our lives as being less harmful than what we tell ourselves about them, which can result in a downward spiral of negative internal conversations. Wi

Self-Help

Death & Grief

This book offers a hypothesis centering around the concept of the "Fantasy Bond", an illusion of connection formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's environment.

The Fantasy Bond: The Structure of Psychological Defenses

Insight Books

The Fantasy Bond: Effects of Psychological Defenses on Interpersonal Relations

This work provides clinicians with a detailed description of Voice Therapy, a cognitive/affective/behavioral technique developed by Dr. Firestone that can be used to elicit and bring to the foreground negative thought patterns antithetical to the self and cynical toward others.

Voice Therapy: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior

Human Sciences Pr

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Books by Firestone, Robert W.

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Compassionate Child-rearing

The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

The Self Under Siege

Combating Destructive Thought Processes: Voice Therapy and Separation Theory

Combating Destructive Thought Processes: Voice Therapy and Separation Theory

Suicide and the Inner Voice: Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management

Suicide and the Inner Voice: Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management

The Fantasy Bond: The Structure of Psychological Defenses

The Fantasy Bond: Effects of Psychological Defenses on Interpersonal Relations

Voice Therapy: A Psychotherapeutic Approach to Self-Destructive Behavior