[.ca] Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience (ISBN 0881633720)

A seminal & scholarly contribution to Psychoanalytic Studies:
Patterns: Building Blocks Of Experience By Marilyn Chambers (Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology, Michigan State University) traces how primary sensory and affective experiences coalesce into patterns which evolve to reflect a unique subjectivity on the part of every individual personality. These are life patterns through which we interact and affect one another beyond any overt physical connection or activity. Professor Charles draws upon case examples to illustrate and document these patterned experiences comprising life narratives. Of special not is the chapter devoted to "The Language of the Body: Allusions to Self-Experience in Women's Poetry". Patterns is a seminal and scholarly contribution to Psychoanalytic Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.