While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted... Læs mere
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.
Fidelity: from cannibalism to imperialism & beyond/intimacy & individuation/egocentricity.
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... Læs mere
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... Læs mere
Primitive mental states are often described in paradoxical terms - both fundamental and complex. This first volume in an annual contains contributions from experts in many fields, and seeks to capture a single definition of the meaning of primitive.
This manual offers to guide child psychotherapists and counsellors through a variety of terminations, both planned endings of successful therapies and premature endings to life circumstances of either patient or therapist. Abrupt unplanned terminations are also discussed.
Provides a practical yet sophisticated guide to the management of love and hate as they are experienced by both patient and therapist.
Combines practical techniques with the object relations theory, and an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship.
Alexithymic individuals are prone to disease as a result of the faulty processing of emotions that leads to cognitive deficit in coping with... Læs mere
This work analyses the concept of object constancy in the light of developmental research and clinical practice. The clinical implications of disturbances in object constancy are discussed with reference to therapeutic work with both children and adults.