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Parents and clinicians share an interest in promoting children's personal maturity and character development. This book addresses this concern.

A collection of the papers of Margaret S. Mahler, providing an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.

Q & A format/discusses the 'as-if' personality/malignant narcissism/projective identification/cumulative trauma/etc.

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. This title incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses.

Describes the defining elements of the accumulated working knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy. This work revisits the raw pointedness of old questions such as: What is psychotherapy? What makes it meaningful? What do I say when a patient asks me how therapy works? How long will it take? How does change happen?

Addiction is a disorder in self-regulation. Individuals who become dependent on addictive substances cannot regulate their emotions, self-care, self-esteem, and relationships.

Many single woman-married man relationships are characterized by recognizable, even stereotypic, interactions and run such a predictable course as to constitute a genuine syndrome. This book offers a framework to help patients struggling with their involvement in such affairs.

A work of a chasidic rebbe.

Reports the therapeutic work carried out with fifteen families, five with children presenting serious psychotic disturbances, and ten with young adults diagnosed as schizophrenics in acute phase.

The integration of religion into psychotherapy finds expression in the therapist's stance and response to those who seek help. This work includes papers that demonstrate through autobiographical material the relationship between personal religious experience and clinical work.

Teaches the art of self-observation with an emphasis on organizing and running a spiritual community. This book exhorts the reader to be mindful of God at all times. It gives advice for enhancing the experience of prayer. It provides a guide to Jewish spirituality.

Eye movement desensitization response (EMDR) is a useful tool for the psychotherapist. Since incompletely processed, upsetting experiences are primary sources of children's emotional problems, EMDR is useful for those who work with children. This book is suitable for therapists who want to understand how EMDR can fit in with what they already do.

Examines the clinical diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. The wish to injure or kill the object of one's love is a paradox, but it is not uncommon.

Frumspeak examines the unique linguistic habits of Orthodox, native-born Americans. This book seeks to draw comparisons with parallel phenomena of Jewish linguistic creation including Yiddish and Ladino and reaches into the linguistic consciousness of the American Orthodox community to reveal how that community thinks, communicates, and educates.

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The original edition of this book describes it as an attempt to 'develop a comprehensive understanding of traditional Judaism in conversation with contemporary philosophical and Christian thought.' This book has been praised by many as one of the most exciting and inspiring books of Jewish theology to be published in a long time.

A collection of essays that seeks to understand the tension between contemporary and traditional elements in the thought, practices, and life of Modern Orthodox Jewry. It offers a study of the balance that occurs between modernity and traditionalism.

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? And how can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? This title offers answers to questions such as these.

While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted techniques that can inadvertently lead to control, indoctrination, and therapeutic failure. Contrary to the stated tradition and values of psychotherapy, they subtly coerce patients rather than respect and genuinely help them.

Those who study memory find no easy answers when they try to validate the authenticity of human memories. This title provides a look at the issues involved in the false memory debate.

Fidelity: from cannibalism to imperialism & beyond/intimacy & individuation/egocentricity.

This text provides an analysis of psychoanalytical pluralism and a celebration of psychoanalytic convergence. Recently, various psychoanalytic perspectives have become increasingly integrated. Using clinical data, this book seeks to illustrate this process.

Contains twenty-three stories that offer a glimpse of the two actors in the drama as they meet and size up one another, negotiate and renegotiate their agreement to collaborate, work through and play through the shifting positive and negative transferences and countertransferences toward a working relationship.

This is an exploration of the similarities and differences of these two, often feuding, perspectives on living - psychoanalysis and Catholicism.

This text on psychotherapy argues that the analyst often fantasizes reciprocally, during the patient's reverie toward recovery of early psychological traumata. By tracking their fantasy experiences, the analyst can make metaphorical inferences that can enable the patient to mature.

A guide to exploring the theory that character shapes sexuality and sexual difficulties. Terms such as "sexual hypochondria", "supersex" and "sexual learning disability" are introduced in this text in order to highlight the relationship with personality forces.

Borrowing its format from Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", this work is written as a discussion between an experienced clinician and two students. In doing so, it introduces the basic tenets of psychodynamic technique as well as current controversies in the field.

This text focuses on the special problems and situations that can affect the course of treatment of patients: these include acting out, panic states, experiences of illness, pregnancy and abortion, job loss, divorce and violence. For each, case illustrations and management techniques are offered.

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