Imposter Syndrome and The 'As-If' Personality in Analytical Psychology

This insightful book explores the 'as-if' personality through the lens of Jungian analytical psychology, illuminating how the same forces that can disturb personal development relationally, socially, and culturally are equally an impetus toward expressing and relating with ones more complete self.

Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst. A member of IAAP, she presents at numerous conferences and has many journal articles and book chapters. Her previous book The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds is translated into several languages. www.susanschwartzphd.com

Acknowledgements  Credits  Introduction  1. As-If defined  2. Through the looking glass of persona  3. The presence of the father's shadow  4. The refusal of twoness in sexual addiction and pornography  5. This is a love story- Echo and Narcissus  6. Blank, void, emptiness  7. Envy as a disturbed search for self  8. The encounter of transferences  9. Ageing, image and illusion  10. Body Fragility  11. Where do I belong?  12. Living on  Index