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Dr. Peter March: "Symington´s answer rests upon
Einstein´s insight: some relations are of the essence of the things related. Symington´s relational account of persons challenges our conventional understanding to the breaking point: by reconceptualizing emotions, persons and human relations, we break
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The origins of his book on narcissism came about, in
Symington's words, when "I started to work on the subject of Psychoanalysis and Religion, and it came to me quite early in that research that the connecting link between the two disciples was narcissism". Both subjects were very close to
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Neville
Symington regards the emotional life of individual woman and man as central for its well-being and relation to others. He sees that when we are not able of having an inner emotional life we are in a tragic situation. Through emotions we communicate with each other.
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Symington believes that envy, greed and jealousy are problematic when not accepted within the person, because they tend to create a toxic inner and outer situation, when not embraced inside oneself. According to
Symington envy, greed and jealousy:"... act in concert."
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Envy, greed and jealousy first really makes us mad when we hate them in our self. It is the expulsion through hatred that makes them toxic to our inner life. A personal inner creative act of acceptance of the three is therefore of uttermost importance.
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In 2013 Neville
Symington was awarded with The Sigourney Award: "Mr. Symington’s work features independent thinking that offers a counterpoint to various schools of established thought regarding narcissism and the source of mental illness."
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Symington had from early on emphasised the importance of the analyst's spontaneity – what he called "the analyst's act of freedom as agent of therapeutic change" – something which may be linked to his existential viewpoint on narcissism.
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through to a brilliant new way of understanding the work of psychiatrist and psychotherapists. One must expect that
Symington´s relational account of persons will affect our psychiatry as deeply as Einsteins work our physics."
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of
British Psychoanalysts which argues that the primary motivation of the child is object-seeking rather than drive gratification. He published a number of books on psychoanalytic topics, and was President of the
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made up from the healthy part of the self combined with aspects of the motherer, and considered that narcissism emerged from the rejection of that object, and with it a sense of an authentically lived existence.
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Others, however, consider that
Symington's search for a positive interrelationship between psychoanalysis and religion leads inevitably to a certain moralism – psychoanalysis being what
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Symington's central concerns. A former priest, Symington in his later writings returned to an exploration of religion alongside that of the mystical elements in psychology.
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Symington maintained that "truth in psychoanalysis emerges between the analyst and the patient and...demands that a preconception is abandoned in both".
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found the plainness and straightforwardness of
Symington's writing style offered something of a framework for her mid-life journey through madness.
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