Psychology

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The theory of psychoanalysis was the breakthrough that defined the intellectual ambience of the 20th century.

The success of psychotherapy depends on the development of both the patient and the psychotherapist.

The subject is emotional abuse-the ongoing process whereby one person attempts to destroy the will, needs, desires, or perceptions of another.

The Jokes of Sigmund Freud unravels the intimate connections between Sigmund Freud and his Jewish identity.

Based on over twenty years of clinical work with women, both individually and in groups, The Internal Triangle represents the first attempt by a woman to use Freud's drive theory to explain female development since Helene Deutsch's two-volume Psychology of Women in 1945.

Self and Others is addressed to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view.

Couples therapy is greatly enhanced when both the intrapsychic and interpersonal realms can be utilized.

Sexual boundary violations are considered the most serious ethical infractions in the mental health profession, as well as in higher education and pastoral counseling.

How does culture affect child-rearing practices?

This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind.

All human cultures across time have created rituals, bringing family members together to celebrate, welcome, honor, or mourn.

This book focuses on the role of individual and group psychotherapy supervision in clinical practice.

In this landmark book, David Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff, both psychoanalysts, develop a way of thinking about and working with the couple as a small group of two, held together as a tightly knit system by a commitment that is powerfully reinforced by the bond of mutual sexual pleasure.

'Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces.

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This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children.

In this landmark work on object relations, Dr.

It has been 35 years since the publication of Heinz Kohut's monumental book, The Analysis of the Self, in 1971, and in this period self psychology has undergone a vibrant and exciting evolution that has significantly influenced and expanded the range of psychoanalytic thinking.

Object relations theory has caused a fundamental reorientation of psychodynamic thought.

Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.

Building upon the theoretical work of Ferenczi, Fairbairn, and Berliner, the author describes four basic relational patterns in the lives of abused children: the reliving of abusive relationships, either as victim or as perpetrator; identification with the aggressor; masochistic self-blame; and the seeking of object contact though sex or violence.

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Clinician and psychoanalyst Warren S.

If you have read other books about love that have fallen short, read this book.

People who suffer from addictive disorders present an incredible challenge to therapists.

In this fine book, Dr.

When it comes to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, which is too often a cavalier diagnosis of first resort, clinicians can benefit from the range of responsible views on assessment and treatment proffered here.

Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.

Winning Cooperation from Your Child provides parents and therapists with a comprehensive, home-based behavioral recovery program for oppositional, defiant, and aggressive children.

The author encourages therapists to approach parents as individuals (not just as parents), and to maintain the same professional perspective in dealing with them that informs the rest of their work.

This book is a valuable resource that combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone's sexual orientation and gender status, be they heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual.

In this moving account of his struggles with manic-depressive disorder, distinguished philosopher Robert S.

A Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink and Adam Grant NEXT BIG IDEA book club read about how to avoid the pitfalls of too little, and too much, complexity.

The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians.

Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world.

Institutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals.

'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture.

Curiosity has taken a winding path through intellectual history, from Early Christian vice to Enlightenment virtue and beyond.

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency.

The eye roll, the smirk, the unilateral lip curl.

A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?

What kind of an emotion is regret?

That we can hope is one of the capacities that define us as human beings.

By bringing the work of philosophers and psychologists together this volume is an interdisciplinary, though predominantly philosophical, exploration of an often discussed but rarely researched emotion; admiration.

Longtime Washington, D.

The problem of the out-of-control teenager demands immediate and effective attention from clinicians.

Does disgust guide moral behavior, or does it hamper it?

Our proper name is as much a part of us as our own skin.