| Contents |
Pygmalion and his living sculpture -- Prehistoric and literary eras: seeking a beautiful self -- Ordinary beauty and timeless fantasies -- Re-birth, transformation, or growth: narcissistic hurdles in the quest to become beautiful -- The misplaced therapist: in search of pygmalion on and off the couch -- Reaching farther for a pygmalion experience: artistic beauty or pathological excursions -- Perverse aspects in the urge to become beautiful: use and abuse in pygmalion dyads -- The intersection of the biology and psychology of beauty -- Understanding the invisibility of beauty in clinical work: translating the unseen -- Doing versus talking in clinical work: cautionary tales for working successfully with beauty issues -- Creating beauty: evolutionary and cutting edge perspectives -- Variations on definitions of beauty -- Beauty, gender identity, and primary femininity -- Origins and endings of beauty. |
