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Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute »

Authors: Judith V. Jordan (Editor), Maureen Walker (Editor), Linda M. Hartling (Editor), Maureen M. Walker (Editor), Linda V. Hartling
ISBN-13: 9781593850265, ISBN-10: 1593850263
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Judith V. Jordan

Book Synopsis

In this important third volume from the Stone Center at Wellesley College, founding scholars and new voices expand and deepen the Center's widely embraced psychological theory of connection as the core of human growth and development. The volume presents an absorbing and practical examination of connection and disconnection at both individual and societal levels. Chapters explore how experiences of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and gender influence relationships, and how people can connect across difference and disagreement. Also discussed are practical implications of the theory for psychotherapy, for the raising of sons, and for workplace and organizational issues.

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Deepening our understanding of relationship
1	Toward competence and connection	11
2	Relational resilience	28
3	Relational awareness : transforming disconnection	47
4	Therapists' authenticity	64
5	Race, self, and society : relational challenges in a culture of disconnection	90
6	Shame and humiliation : from isolation to relational transformation	103
7	Racial images and relational possibilities	129
8	Women, race, and racism : a dialogue in black and white	147
Pt. II	Applying the power of connection
9	Couple therapy : a relational approach	167
10	Relationships in groups : connection, resonance, and paradox	194
11	Mothers and sons : raising relational boys	220
12	Applications of the relational model to time-limited therapy	250
13	Relational theory in the workplace	270
	Index	299