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Dr Shengold's reflections on sex, narcissism, symbolism, and murder are illustrated with clinical and literary examples, from \"King Lear\", personification of infantile demandingness, to Ibsen's \"Master Builder\", the soul-murderer par-excellence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537251934481,"sku":"GOR013228179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50127302000913,"sku":"CIN0300050046G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50300010365201,"sku":"CIN0300050046VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347883462929,"sku":"CIN0300050046A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50832569598225,"sku":"GOR009384542","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51908079976721,"sku":"GOR010233147","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300050046.jpg?v=1751037984"},{"product_id":"soul-murder-book-leonard-shengold-9780449905494","title":"Soul Murder","description":"To abuse or neglect a child, to deprive the child of his or her own identity and ability to experience joy in life, is to commit soul murder. 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Drawing on a lifetime of clinical experience as well as wide readings of world literature, Shengold shows how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a powerful conviction that change means loss.    Dr. Shengold, who is well known for his work on the lasting effects of childhood trauma and child abuse in such seminal books as Soul Murder and Soul Murder Revisited, continues his exploration into the consequences of early psychological injury and loss. In the examples of his patients and in the lives and work of such figures as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Wordsworth, and Henrik Ibsen, Shengold looks at the different ways in which unconscious impressions connected with early experiences and fantasies about parents are integrated into individual lives. 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