Bøger af Lawrence Josephs

The Relational Dimensions of Weight Management is a book for nonspecialist psychotherapists of any theoretical orientation to help patients concerned with weight management. Psychotherapy patients use their therapists as sounding boards to help them answer two questions: Do I need to lose weight? And, if I do need to lose weight, how should I go about it? Chapters provide therapists with the tools they need to help patients find personalized solutions to their weight loss concerns, to boost their self-image, and to deal with the judgment that is sometimes imposed by others, regardless of which weight management approach patients eventually embrace.

Drawing on research in social, personality, and evolutionary psychology that examines the crucial roles of attachment theory and ""dark"" personality traits such as narcissism and low empathy, Lawrence Josephs offers a complex but intuitive model that explains how and when intimate relationships work, and don't work.

Presents an approach to understanding human character in terms of the phenomenology of self-experience. This book reviews the psychoanalytic theory of character structure from Freud to Kle.