Books published by Jason Aronson Publishers

Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds.

Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption undertake exploration of this important terrain of loss and connection, and of the fragility and resilience of human bonds.

Rising above the polemics surrounding sexual and physical abuse, David and Jill Savege Scharff bring a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to understand the effects of overwhelming physical and psychological trauma, including sexual abuse, injury, and birth defect. The Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals, families, and couples recovering from trauma and abundance of relevant clinical examples described in their characteristically personal and vivid style.

Presenting effective play therapy techniques, the authors suggest possible diagnoses and both case study and empirical support for play therapy as the treatment of choice with a range of presenting problems. It offers a digest of some of the most significant play therapy literature for practicing play therapists and researchers.

Covers marital life after the wedding. This work is about psychological and biological difficulties between men and women that make marriage so challenging. It looks at why passion is in danger of fading within marriage, how hormones exacerbate behavior, and how the brain confounds us.

In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior.

The ability of psychotherapists to tolerate their own feelings in the clinical situation determines how their patients experience and tolerate their own intense and often distressing affect. The author describes, in detail, how he works with difficult patients, trying to engage them as deeply and fully as both they and he can tolerate.

The second edition of Play Therapy Techniques includes seven new chapters in addition to the original twenty-four. These lively chapters expand the comprehensive scope of the book by describing issues involved in beginning and ending therapy, using metaphors, playing music and ball, and applying the renowned "Color Your Life" technique.

Offers clinicians a glimpse into the dark corners of psychopathology and the arenas of healthy mental functioning.

Treating Chronic Depression explains how to identify the cause of chronic depression and details specific treatment approaches. Various types of psychotherapy-including cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and psychodynamic-are described, and case examples are given to illustrate the flexible and combined methods required. A Jason Aronson Book

Includes papers that take seriously the fact that patients are affected by their religious convictions.

A deeply felt and beautifully written tribute to the bravery of patients and therapists alike in their very human search for connection.

Divided into seven categories, this book contains chapters which include techniques which are applied to practice situations.

Dr. Frank M. Lachmann, eminent clinician, teacher, and researcher, offers help to clinicians working with difficult-to-treat patients. Designed to avoid escalating spirals of aggression and prevent therapeutic stalemates, the process of change begins with an understanding of the nature, causes, and function of the patient's aggression.

Provides a practical yet sophisticated guide to the management of love and hate as they are experienced by both patient and therapist.

The author brings together the original basic concepts, recent attachment-based developments, and relevant clinical material to provide a rich and comprehensive application of attachment theory to psychotherapy with adults.

Thicker Than Blood addresses in depth the impact of adoption on biological parents, adoptive parents, adopted children, and siblings.

A number of patients in psychotherapy, male and female alike, express anxieties and obsessive concerns about their bodies - thinness, facial features, being toned, or other aspects of their appearance.

This book advances a new understanding of producing change in psychotherapy. It proposes the concept of interaction structure, repeated mutually influencing interactions between therapist and patient that are a fundamental aspect of therapeutic action.

This books offers guidelines to enhance the clinician's ability to conduct an effective first session. Armstrong identifies eight essential tasks of the first session, (including, for example, an atmosphere of safety, patient assessment, the contract, and transition), and demonstrates the steps he takes to accomplish them.

Using patient diaries and letters, this book shows how immersive moments in therapy - moments of complete understanding between patient and therapist - are powerful enough to dislodge the alienated, detached self from its hiding place and enable the individual to begin incorporating his or her inner core into his or her external, social self.

Addresses various aspects of the situations encountered by child therapists and supervisors daily in their work with children and their parents.

Perversion is a lack of capacity for whole object love, and while this includes the sexual perversions it also includes certain character perversions, and psychotic conditions. This book shows how some of the paradoxes of self/other, subjectivity/objectivity, male/female and instinct/object are negotiated in both illness and health.

Sibling relationships and rivalry are as old as recorded history. This analysis explores that ambivalence between siblings casts its shadow throughout people's lifetimes and affects their choices of mates, relationships with their own children, and aversions to others.

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Shows how D W Winnicott's therapeutic ideas and technique are particularly relevant to a agency-based psychodynamic treatment of clients.

Focuses on the most basic of human interactions - love and attachment in all of their permutations and the barriers that exist to achieving closeness. This work addresses specific topics such as: gender, class, race, and ethnicity. It presents a comprehensive understanding of love in all of its various configurations.

Almost everyone who crosses the therapist's threshold is looking for a second chance - a shot at living a richer, less restricted life.

The author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it paralyzes us, individually and collectively. He draws on powerful case stories to illustrate the language and impact of shame and how it can be overcome.

Mentoring intersects with memoir in this volume, as 31 psychotherapists share the origins of their professional ambitions and, mixing authority with levity, describe their professional odysseys. The psychotherapists include Martin A. Schulman, Jeffrey Seinfeld and Martha Stark.