The Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Stone Center’s Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (2004)

Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D., Maureen Walker, Ph.D., and Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., editors

In this important third volume from the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (jbmti.org) at the Wellesley Centers for Women, founding scholars and new voices expand and deepen the Center’s widely embraced psychological theory of connection as the core of human growth and development. Demonstrating the increasing sophistication of relational-cultural theory, the volume presents an absorbing and practical examination of connection and disconnection at both individual and societal levels. Chapters explore how experiences of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, and gender influence relationships and how people can connect across difference and disagreement.

This book contains the chapter "Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation" by Linda Hartling, Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, and Judith Jordan

CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“In a culture toxic with aggression, competition, and ‘power over’ images, this book seeks to heal. Whether discussing race; isolation and loneliness; or raising caring, empathic sons, the authors write with authority and heart about important and deeply relevant issues. I cannot think of a book we need more in our sad, hard times.” —Mary Pipher, PhD,
author of Reviving Ophelia

“To encounter the transformative vision of the Stone Center in a single volume is always a special pleasure. The theoretical and clinical wisdom in this book is stunning in its power to change the reader in some fundamental way, and to move the field of psychotherapy toward a more accurate, compassionate, and multilayered understanding of what hurts and heals in human relationships.”
—Harriet Lerner, PhD,
author of The Dance of Anger

Paperback: ISBN 1-59385-025-5, Cat. #5025
Paperback Price: $18.95

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