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Addresses the ways that mental health practitioners can assist survivors of terrorism. This volume explores the methods employed to help people heal and even grow from traumatic experiences. It argues for a multi-dimensional approach to understanding and treating the effects of terror-related trauma.

This text provides a guide to clinical interpretations for those in the practice of psychotherapy. The book is divided into two parts: Part I deals with the classical approach to clinical interpretation; and Part II deals with developments since Freud, including Kohut's self-psychological approach.

Describes the links between crisis and personality style, and offers a plan for approaching cases with these connections in mind. This book discusses ways to help patients learn coping strategies, modify enduring attitudes, and improve their relational patterns. It outlines the history of brief dynamic psychotherapy.

The Therapeutic Process presents an informative, sequential, well-defined, and clinically rich guide to the process of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Specifically designed to have broad appeal and value for the beginning clinician as well as the more experienced clinician, this book includes many illustrative examples and well-defined terms.

When unmourned experiences of helplessness and disavowed desires turn into a passive fatalism, people stop hoping for the best and fear the worst, despairing that the real world has anything good to offer.

Designed and arranged according to the DSM-IV diagnostic categories, this book contains chapters which address the short-term treatment of a specific condition or patient population.

Portrays the therapist as healer through a series of clinical vignettes from the treatment of a younger therapist whom the author perceives to be more intelligent, talented, and better educated than himself.

A well-written and valuable resource for both grievers and the mental health professionals who help them, this book provides hope for transformational grief and the tools to forge that outcome.

Covering Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, which is too often a cavalier diagnosis of first resort, this work helps clinicians to benefit from the range of responsible views on assessment and treatment proffered here.

Written by clinicians who practice primarily from a psychodynamic framework, this work shows how to include cognitive-behavioral techniques in contemporary psychodynamic practice.

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Teases out and examines the therapist's role in the divorce. The author challenges recommending appropriate interventions for sustaining the therapeutic relationship at whatever stage termination is threatened, be it right at the outset, during the honeymoon phase, in the face of the first treatment crisis, or later still.

Weaves together contemporary thinking about the individual into the family systems approach to therapy. This work introduces concepts that professional and readers can adopt to begin to decode symbolic issues and, in turn, generate the understanding that builds empathy between partners.

How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? This book answers these questions.

This is a thinking person's guide, and as such it supplies a theoretical framework for understanding attachment and loss as well as actual advice on everyday care, costs, and regulations.

Dr. Levin outlines the treatment of chemical and other addictions such as compulsive gambling, compulsive sexuality, and codependency.

Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins and early warning signs of the psychological violation she describes as a dance between abuser and abused. She goes on to introduce typologies of each (the narcissistic or passive-aggressive abuser, the unentitled self) and to explore the bases for their collusive attachments.

Methuselah is the elderly patient and Echo is the admiring soul, the therapist, who gives Methuselah back to himself by joining, mirroring, and reflecting in the course of creating a treatment alliance. The author brings transpersonal, psychodynamic, and behavioral approaches to bear on the existential problems of old and late old age.

This study looks at fantasies of omnipotence, and how they grow out of feelings of helplessness. It addresses various aspects, from the merger fantasies of babies who feel like an extension of their parent, to the soothing spiritual and religious feelings that ease acceptance of loss and mortality.

As an old proverb puts it, Two Jews, three opinions. In the long, rich, tumultuous history of the Jewish people, this characteristic contentiousness has often been extended even unto Heaven. This book presents some of the most poignant and deeply soulful expressions of human anguish and yearning.

Shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. This book addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country.

Distill's the authors many years of research, clinical experience, and extensive theoretical knowledge of analytic group psychotherapy. This work presents their Gottingen model of group.

Illustrates the subtle interaction of cognitive and interpersonal factors.

This collection of essays on psychoanalytical thought represents Esther Menaker's emphasis on the individual's self-esteem as reflected in the ego-ideal and the sense of identity. These papers centre on three vital issues: masochism, identification and the social process, and creativity.

With an emphasis on learning to change through other modalities than speech, this book discusses the importance of non-verbal body experience and awareness of kinetic cues in interpersonal relationships. A number of meditative exercises are included.

Once a journey for self understanding has begun, there is inevitably a struggle against real change. Inner roadblocks on both sides of the couch impede the journey of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This book explores these resistances.

Presents a selection of the papers of a beloved teacher & mentor by several of his students & collaborators.