Brings the contribution of the developmental perspective to treatment.
A systematic introduction to interpretation as a technical therapeutic skill.
Offers answers to questions about the nature of hatred. This book addresses the emergence of hatred in the clinical... Læs mere
Charts six skills that are necessary for a stable love relationship: the capacities for erotic involvement, for merging, for idealization, for integration, for 'refinding,' and for self-transcendence.
Aiming to be comprehensive in scope, this work examines sadomasochism as a clinical entity, a sexual perversion, a socially sanctioned aspect of male-female relations, and as the basic element in all pornography, ancient puberty rites and couvade.
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.
The enthusiasm among American clinicians for object relations theory has led to a host of problems related to the need to master a different terminology.
By drawing upon object relations concepts, the couples therapist is able to work with both the intrapsychic makeup of the partners and their ways of relating as a couple.
This work provides an account of the people, movements and events that have influenced the direction and character of psychiatry. The authors trace the various ways of dealing with mental illness that have emerged and developed, from prehistoric times to the modern day.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols contains more than 250 definitions and descriptions for ceremonial objects and images, personalities, places, concepts, motifs, and... Læs mere
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