Tales on the Couch. Kai, Alyonushka, the Dead Princess, Koschei the Deathless and Other Characters Through the Eyes of Psychotherapists

This book offers an opportunity to look at the world of fairy tales and its characters from a different, more adult perspective. In it, candidates of psychological sciences, supervisors, gestalt therapists with 25 years of experience working with real people, discuss the reasons behind the formation of disorders and syndromes in Kai, Cinderella, the Little Mermaid, Shrek, and other heroes. Using the storylines of well-known works, they show how a pathological bond with the mother develops, how a person's "I" splits, how the process of separation occurs in adolescents, and how contact with reality is lost in children abandoned by their parents.