Bøger af Bethesda

This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then reconceptualizes the analytic situation, and forms an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

The motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Placing motivational systems theory within a contemporary dynamic systems theory, this title offers responses to the critics of motivational systems theory.

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. This book offers insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.

Covers the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations in surface waters, in soil and groundwater, and in air. This title emphasizes intuitively based mathematical models for chemical transport and transformations in the environment. It is useful for students and practitioners.