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Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home

By Clare Cooper Marcus

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House as a Mirror of Self by Clare Cooper Marcus explores the profound emotional bonds we form with our homes throughout life. Rather than focusing on architecture or decoration, the book delves into how our dwellings reflect our self-image, influence our psychological growth, and shape our feelings of control, privacy, and belonging. Through personal stories and psychological insights, Marcus reveals how homes act as mirrors of the soul and offers a fresh perspective on creating spaces that truly nurture us.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in self-help, personal development, psychology, and understanding the deeper emotional significance of their living spaces. It appeals to those who seek to transform their homes into havens of personal growth and soulfulness beyond mere aesthetics.

Presents an examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. This book explores how the self-image is reflected in our homes; power struggles in making a home together with a partner; territory, control and privacy at home; self-image and location; and more.

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House as a Mirror of Self is an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. It is not about architecture, decorating styles, or real estate, but rather about the more subtle bonds of feelings we experience with dwellings past and present.

At the base of the book is a very simple, yet frequently overlooked premise: as we change and grow throughout our lives, our psychological development is punctuated not only by meaningful emotional relationships with people but also by close affective ties with a number of significant physical environments, beginning in childhood.

Clare Cooper Marcus explores how the self-image is reflected in our homes; power struggles in making a home together with a partner; territory, control, and privacy at home; self-image and location; disruptions in the bonding with the home; and beyond the "house ego" to the call of the soul.

As our culture becomes swept up in home improvement to the extent of having a TV network dedicated to it, this book is essential for understanding why the surroundings that we call home make us feel the way we do. With this information, we can embark on home improvement that truly makes room for our soul.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892541249

Publisher: Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 February 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 179.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 320

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Clare Cooper Marcus Home & Garden Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

As consultant and freelance writer in the field of people-environment relations and environmental psychology, retired University of California at Berkeley Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Clare Cooper Marcus has written several books on architecture and community. Professor Marcus has consulted for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington DC, San Francisco City Planning Deptartment, New Zealand Department of Public Works, the Canadian Housing Design Council, as well as private architecture and engineering firms.