Cherishment: a Psychology of the Heart
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
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A unique synthesis of Eastern and Western views of relationships, this book introduces a new theory of emotional attachment: "Cherishment." Drawing on the Japanese concept of amae, the expectation infants have to be sweetly and indulgently loved, the authors have developed new approaches to dealing with the hurt that results when that love is denied. Cherishment is the emotional foundation, formed in childhood, which sustains all adult relationships -- collaborations, romances, friendships.
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Blending the philosophical writing that has won Young-Bruehl international acclaim with Bethelard's imaginative sensibility, Cherishment breaks free of tradition-bound psychoanalytic style to examine the basic human need for love. A finely woven, balanced marriage of research, memoir, and intimate therapeutic tales in the mode of Irvin Yalom, Adam Phillips, and Alice Miller, the book opens a conversation that is eclectic and embracing. A path-breaking work, Cherishment shows how only by letting go of the known can we rediscover our inherent need for dependent love and open ourselves to affection and connection in our everyday lives.
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