Books by Joseph D. (Private practice Lichtenberg

This text offers ten principles of technique to guide the clinical exchange. They integrate the findings of self psychology with developmental research that has refined understanding of the self as a centre of experience and motivation.

This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then reconceptualizes the analytic situation, and forms an experiential account of the therapeutic action of analysis.

Containing 10 chapters, this book expatiates on the craft of exploratory psychotherapy as it pertains to patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization. Each chapter formulates a different guideline for technique.

Thoroughly grounded in contemporary development, this text explores the ecological niche of the infant-caregiver dyad and examines the evolutionary leap that permits communication to take place concurrently in nonverbal and verbal modes.

Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that accommodates the developmental insights of infancy research.

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. This book offers insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.