Shows how cognitive therapy can be applied to the treatment of family of origin issues, such as alcoholism and incest, without compromising depth and clinical sophistication. Using an integrative cognitive model and structured techniques, the volume shows how ideas highlighted in other orientations
Uncovers manic depression as a hidden cause of dictatorship, war, and mass killing. In comparing these three tyrants, this work describes a number of behavioural similarities supporting the contention that a specific psychiatric disorder - manic depression - can be one of the key factors in such political pathologies as tyranny and terrorism.
The book combines cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, and the study of psychosomatic illness to present the information on the dissociative process. Experts in each of these fields bring their knowledge on the unique role that dissociation plays in moderating social and psychological effects on the body.
Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients is detailed discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference that legitimizes the therapist's reactions and shows ways to use them therapeutically with the patient.
Designed for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, this volume focuses on those contributions directly relevant to the clinical situation, without neglecting fundamental descriptive and theoretical contributions.
Maintaining Safety and Integrity in the Psychotherapeutic Process
This book examines the problem of therapeutic boundaries and boundary violations from multiple viewpoints, including historical antecedents, sociological mechanisms, object relations theory, psychodynamic theory, practical technique, and the mental health and training of psychotherapists.
Schizophrenia: From Mind to Molecule presents a change in the scientific understanding and outlook regarding this devastating disorder. It provides a thorough look at schizophrenia that includes neurobehavioral studies, traditional and emerging technologies, psychosocial and medical treatments, and future research opportunities.
Following Freud's lead, Rudnytsky and Spitz approach works of art as constituting psychoanalytical, or forbidden, knowledge. This collection of essays pursues the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition, from the Hebrew Bible to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The psychoanalyst dares to explore the most intimate recesses of the human soul, to throw open long-barred doors, and to confront the forbidden knowledge beneath the surface. In Freud and Forbidden Knowledge, nine exceptional essays use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the Western tradition, from ......
Unheard Melodies: a Third Principle of Mental Functioning
As social animals, each of us can only be partly understood through insights into our individual psychodynamics. There is, within us, another principle at work: to preserve the group, even at the expense of the individual. This title constructs a necessary bridge between individual psychodynamics and group dynamics.
In this work, Ellen Siegelman presents metaphor as a form of symbolization uniquely suited to bridging the known and unknown, the conscious and unconscious, the personal and universal.
The book examines the implications of shorter stays for the practice of inpatient psychotherapy. The contributors describe techniques that inpatient psychotherapists can use to remain therapeutically effective despite increased pressure from managed care companies and the threat of malpractice suits.
History, Science, and Practice in American Psychoanalysis
Sets out to unravel the opaque idea of the psychoanalytic past as expressed in numerous theoretical voices, from object relations to Lacanianism to ego psychology. To this end, the author looks at current debates on narrative truth, metapsychology and the role of the past in psychoanalysis.
Argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye and Bettelheim.
