Books published by Jason Aronson Publishers

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.

Alexithymic individuals are prone to disease as a result of the faulty processing of emotions that leads to cognitive deficit in coping with stressful affects. This collection reports on specific disorders - anorexia, arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome - with consideration of developmental questions and treatment issues and techniques.

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Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.

Winnicott was the first to describe how very early in life an individual can, in response to environmental failure, turn away from the body and its needs and establish mental functioning as a thing in itself.

This guide to the Rorscharch records of adolescents, including developmental trends and sex differences, has been enriched with longitudinal data on the responses of 35 girls and 30 boys who were each tested annually from 10 to 16 years old.

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A practical guide to play therapy with children. This book covers aspects of treatment including the selection of appropriate patients, choice of toys, setting limits, and working with parents. The capabilities of group therapy to foster social interaction and psychological development are shown.

'The purpose of this book is to elevate stories and storytelling in people's esteem, so they will understand their holiness and appreciate them at their full worth. There are those who enjoy stories and storytelling but in the back of their minds think, 'After all, they're only stories.'

This is a translation of the 1911 Biblisch-Talmudiesche Medizin , an extensively researched text that gathers the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures, written by German physician and scholar Julius Preuss (1861-1913).

Conversion to Judaism provides information, advice, and support for individuals contemplating conversion to Judaism, as well as those who have converted and the families affected by this decision. With sensitivity and compassion, Lawrence J. Epstein offers an informative volume that warmly welcomes the newcomer to Judaism.

'This spirited encouter between a hardheaded atheist and a sophisticated theologian on the nature and existence of God can serve as a model for how to conduct a passionate and intelligent conversation on this most ultimate of issues.'-Rabbi Neil Gillman, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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A retelling of 300 Jewish stories spanning 4,000 years and three continents. Drawing on biblical, talmudic, and hasidic tales, the author creates a classic_a map resource book for the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Six useful indexes, chronological table of contents, glossary, and bibliography.

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When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis.

Incorporates Freud's papers on psychoanalytic method alongside commentary on the perspectives of the material. The papers address the role of transference, dream interpretation, clinical issues, and termination of treatment. It also looks at how Freud's ideas have been integrated into practice.

This study of childhood neuroses focuses on the role of the early mother-child relationship and its effect on the development of the ego, super-ego, object relations and aggression. The pathological conditions discussed are arranged in accordance with the developmental stages.

Questions assumptions about what it is to be a human being by examining the ideas of thinkers such as Foucault, Winnicott, Lacan and Jaspers. Chessick combines succinct summaries of the writings of these European thinkers with critical commentaries.

Object Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis is a collection of Kernberg's papers published or presented during the period from 1966 to 1975, with some new material included as well.

This work argues that the selection of 12 sessions on a once weekly basis mobilises hope and optimism in psychotherapy patients. It also necessitates dealing with the conscious and unconscious conflicts and meanings surrounding time, termination and separation-individuation.

A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, this book documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and "wow" moments that inhere in today's historical and cultural intersections of theory, practice, and experience.

Sacred Secrets: The Sanctity of Sex in Jewish Law and Lore dispels the common misconception that Judaism, like Christianity, views sex as a mere procreative tool with taboos on other expressions of sensual pleasure.

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides a description of a psychoanalytic approach to a wide range of mental disorders affecting both adults and children. Clinical examples are provided.

Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal. This book shows how these changes have implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy.

Brings together the contents of "The Holy Beggars' Gazette". This book is presented chronologically from its beginnings in 1972 until it ceased publication in 1979.