This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and so is the name of its originator.
Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of one's country?
This book integrates psychiatry and psychoanalysis to present deeper and sounder clinical profiles of the personality disorders than have been hitherto available.
This book aims to help therapists enhance their empathy with patients who are compelled to lie and to provide them with better therapeutic strategies to deal with the clinical dilemmas that arise in working with such children and adults.
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, ...
Offers clinicians a glimpse into the dark corners of psychopathology and the arenas of healthy mental functioning.
How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? This book answers these questions.
This comprehensive and tightly argued book deals with the process through which a coherent self evolves, the various ways such development fails to occur, and the therapeutic measures to put things back together.
In this compact and pithy book, psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar steps out of his consulting room to address certain matters of urgent global... Læs mere
The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and... Læs mere
This book addresses five areas of difficulty in psychotherapy: initial assessment, boundaries, money, disruptions, and suicidal crises. It outlines the conceptual issues and the technical details of each of the concept in detail.
This book is a collection of "stories", and just as the Stories of the Dreaming act as a container of experiences for the indigenous people, it attempts to be a container for experiences that had not had enough exposure in psychoanalytic literature.