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Walking Heads: On the Secret Fantasy of Being an Exception
Walking Heads On the Secret Fantasy of Being an Exception Author:Antonie Ladan, Marjolijn de Jager A study of the painful experience of growing up too quickly and missing the joys of childhood. The title, Walking Heads, refers to individuals who are especially entrenched inside their heads, without any instinctive contact with the rest of their body. Their childhoods were spent in situations difficult to endure and from which there was no esc... more »ape. Therefore, and out of sheer necessity, they called upon their ability to fantasize to find a way out of their situation. The author integrates results from developmental, memory and brain research into psychoanalysis, which is why he has compared his work to that of Welldon, Symington and Brockman. The author recently wrote to say that, "In The Netherlands, Walking Heads is bought not only by psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, but also by a lay-public of people who are interested in psychological matters (there were for instance also reviews in two nationwide newspapers and on the national radio network). It's not necessary to have basic psychoanalytical knowledge to be able to read the book."« less