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Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one''s own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek to answer are: Do children understand the idea of death? How is adolescent bravado related to deeper anxieties about death? Is it normal and even psychologically healthy to think about one''s own death during middle age? Does culture-at-large play a role in how individuals conceptualize the role of death in human life? Is death "apart" from or "a part" of life? Enhanced understanding of such matters will help mental health clinicians treat patients struggling with death-related concerns with greater empathy.

This book reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mindfulness, mentalization, psychological mindedness, and the attachment relationship. The author offers some provisional hypotheses about therapeutic effectiveness and suggests some ways of testing these hypotheses empirically, using sophisticated assessment instruments that measure psychotherapy process and outcome. The author suggests that the therapeutic community's survival depends on submitting its craft to empirical scrutiny before the pharmaceutical drug lords strip it away from us.

This book is rich in content and practical ideas guided by current attachment and neurobiological research. Chapters contain family and group Theraplay case studies including agendas from beginning, middle, and end of treatment sessions with an extensive appendix, which helps to translate theory into practice.

Searching for the Perfect Woman is a thorough account of a five-year psychoanalysis with a deeply troubled, yet successful man-the attention to technique and theory, accompanied by an in-depth interview with Vamik Volkan, makes this an excellent resource for teaching psychoanalytic technique. Beyond the technical merits, the narrative structure and style reads like a novel, drawing lay readers into the fascinating story of Hamilton's life and his eventual cure.

Object Relations Brief Therapy combines practical techniques with the depth of object relations theory, the wisdom of previous brief therapy writers, and, most notably, an emphasis on the unique therapeutic relationship. This new paperback edition includes a preface reviewing more recent developments in the area of brief therapy.

Mental health professionals, while trained to treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed of human resilience of how what intrapsychic, interpersonal, and psychosocial factors are operative in adaptive coping with trauma. This book addresses the matter of resilience from the vantage point of the authors' personal and clinical experiences.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is a collection of essays covering the essential ingredients of depth psychotherapy with youth who have been severely wounded by toxic societal influences including abuse, violence, trauma, poverty, devaluation, traumatic or repeated losses, discrimination of all forms, as well as humiliation resulting from devaluation in its many guises. The subjects are not the kids usually included in studies of evidence-based practices because they are excluded due to co-morbidity or the severity of their conditions. Yet it is a hopeful book that expresses the conviction that healing can take place in the context of a committed, in depth, empathy and relationship-based approach.

The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan is the first book to address risk and resilience factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from a developmental perspective. Similarities and differences in risk factors, disease comorbidities and treatment between children and adults are addressed, and the book culminates in a working model to guide further research into the psychobiology of PTSD.

Offers analysts and psychodynamic therapists a way of understanding the theoretical intersection of shame, guilt, and narcissism substance abuse. This work incorporates contemporary relational and intersubjective perspectives understanding that the analyst's involvement of the self is critical for the successful treatment of the serious neuroses.

Addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening. This work considers the listening process from the so-called two-person perspective - that is, that which is aligned with intersubjective, interpersonal, and relational theories.

Addresses training, supervisory, and therapeutic issues related to the consequences from sexual boundary violations among mental health professionals and clergy. This book provides professionals with a resource on how to understand the problem of sexual misconduct from a variety of perspectives, including precursors, and supervisory concerns.

This Reader is a rich collection of chapters relevant to the Cultural Formulation originally published in the DSM-IV, that covers the Cultural Formulation's historical and conceptual background as well as its development and characteristics. In addition, the Reader proffers reflections on and prospects of the Cultural Formulation, and provides clinical case illustrations of the utility of the Cultural Formulation in diagnosis and treatment.

Gives voice to diverse perspectives that shape contemporary self psychology, from complexity and attachment theories to treatment of children, from developments in family and group therapies practices and supervisory process to examination of role of shame, enactments, and traumatic experience in self-object relatedness and subjective experience.

This book examines the transformation of selflessness into the Caretaker Personality Disorder, and how it is not always better to give than receive, that being good can go bad, and that the 'disease to please' can even be fatal.

Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and non-Muslim contributors from the fields of history, religion, anthropology, politics, and psychoanalysis. Together these authors highlight the world-changing contributions of prominent Muslim figures, and elucidate the encounter of Islam with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. Moving on to matters of family, individual personality formation, human sexuality, and religious identity, they also address clinical issues that arise in the treatment of Muslim patients as well as the technical work of Muslim psychoanalysts.

This text examines a series of pervasive themes of human existence and the challenges of "being" and "relating". Areas investigated include: the nature and meaning of being different; possessiveness and being possessed; and dimensions of loneliness, mystery and self-disclosure.

This text addresses some of the key questions in the field of psychoanalysis and clinical practice. It considers areas such the nature of analysis and the relationship between the individual patient and the specific analyist.

A systematic introduction to interpretation as a technical therapeutic skill.

Intended for use in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Association's most recent revision of its diagnostic system, the DSM-IV (1994). This text places the DSM-IV in historical perspective and provides an overview of the various definitions and DSM-IV disorders.

Treating borderline patients is one of the most challenging areas in psychotherapy because of the patient's extreme emotional expressions,and the strain it places on the therapist. Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP) is psychodynamic treatment designed especially for borderline patients. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to TFP.

Gives an explanation of brief strategic therapy techniques and reveals how apparently simple techniques can solve complex, seemingly untreatable problems. This book offers case studies and an evaluation of the results obtained from their empirical research. It is useful for anyone interested in solving complicated problems by simple strategies.

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Describes in detail how to effectively treat severely ill but not psychotic patients, by careful psychotherapeutic work on the defenses and the superego. The author demonstrates his flexible and individualized method with clinical material taken directly from actual patient - therapist interaction.

This reference examines the history of Jewish forenames and surnames, tracing the origin of each name and the changes that have occured over generations.

Provides first-person, subjective accounts of the supervisory process from the viewpoint of both the supervisor and the supervisee.

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This book compiles the contributions of mental health professionals, and scholars of humanities, to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent families, the ruthlessness of anti-black racism, and the burden of poverty and social disenfranchisement on the African American individual.

Presents a relational approach that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the findings from infant research. This book give therapists the theoretical framework to orient the treatment and maintain psychic equilibrium and safety during times of arousing and destabilizing affect and relational scenarios.

This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference when treating borderline patients. Using detailed accounts of clinical experiences, the authors demonstrate how their own thoughts, feelings, and fantasies enable them to understand their patients' internal worlds.