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During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble. In Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy: Exploring the Middle Ground, James L. Poulton, PhD, surveys those problems and offers practical suggestions for their resolution. Through the use of extensive clinical material from couple cases, each chapter presents a specific issue, reviews the theoretical background that is essential for understanding it, and offers detailed illustrations of effective clinical interventions.The issues addressed by this book include the following: vthe influence of intergenerational trauma on the coupleΓÇÖs functioning; vdynamics of violence and sacrifice within the couple; vthe narcissistic couple and disillusionment with the therapeutic process; vintensification of emotional stress that results when both partners share unconscious anxieties; vappropriate and inappropriate uses of the therapistΓÇÖs self-disclosure; vintegration of cultural issues in couple therapy; vnegotiating individual and shared transferences in couple therapy;vthe place of truth and certainty in the coupleΓÇÖs capacity to heal.Object Relations and Relationality in Couple Therapy: Exploring the Middle Ground draws upon leading-edge innovations in both theory and technique to offer creative solutions to the common dilemmas in couple therapy. In current discussions of psychoanalytic treatment, two distinct but interrelated theoretical approaches predominate: object relations and relational theory. This book emphasizes the continuities and commonalities between these two approaches, particularly in their application to the treatment of couples, and argues that modern relational theories can be read as clinically useful elaborations of similar intuitions that have already been developing in the object relations oeuvre. The chapters in this book illustrate that there is a firm middle ground in which ideas and techniques from both theories can be integrated into a consistent therapeutic approach that provides a broad foundation for conceptualizing couple interactions and for designing interventions that facilitate the coupleΓÇÖs growth.

This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the familiar with the unfamiliar, it seeks to enrich our understanding of both. Within its pages, distinguished psychoanalysts from East and West weave a fine and colorful tapestry of the ubiquitous and idiosyncratic, the plebian and profound, and the neurotically-inclined and culturally-nuanced. They provide meticulous historical accounts of the development of psychoanalysis in Japan, Korea, and China and familiarize the reader with interesting personages, quaint phrases, cultural nuances, founding of journals, and emergence of groups interested in psychoanalysis. The contributors to the book discuss the depth-psychological concepts of amae, Wa, Ajase complex, and the "filial piety complex," thus underscoring the intricate interplay of drive and ego development with the powerful forces of ancestral legacies and their attendant myths and fantasies. The reverberations of these aesthetic and relational paradigms in epic love stories, martial arts, and cinema are also elucidated. In addition, the book offers insights into the psychosocial trials and tribulations of the Western immigrant populations from these countries and their offspring. Finally, the implications of all this to the conduct of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are addressed.

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically geared toward adolescents. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer readers entry into the world of adolescents, showing how to make connections and alliances.

In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by empirical evidence and considering clinical implications. There is increasing recognition worldwide of the importance of child and adolescent mental health problems, of the distress and impairment they can cause to children and their families, and of the markedly adverse effects on education and on adult psychiatric adjustment when left untreated. Globally, however, services to attend to these problems in children are uneven and patchy. There is a need to advance awareness of child and adolescent mental health and of factors that influence them. Chapters address the effects on child mental health of issues ranging from secular changes in family composition in both western and eastern countries, rapid industrialization, poverty, deprivation, and adoption, to refugee status and aboriginal life. It considers emerging issues, such as cyber addiction, PTSD, ADHD across different cultures, and the autistic ''epidemic.'' They discuss new service developments (Eastern Europe, paediatric liaison services) in the context of traditional methods (traditional Chinese medicine).

Addresses erotic dynamics in the treatment relationship within the context of a two-person therapy, emphasizing the necessity of mutuality and emotional reciprocity between patient and therapist.

This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems_the city of Vilna, the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania,' during the years before World War II.

Danan is a gifted and highly regarded Jewish educator. She has written a comprehensive guide to Jewish parenting, filled with a tremendous amount of information, enthusiasm, practical ideas, wise advice, and a fantastic quantity of resources. This book is essential reading for Jewish parents.

Ever since the earliest times, Jewish scholars have looked to the Hebrew language as a source of holiness and a wellspring of wisdom. This book gathers many examples of the meanings hidden within Hebrew words and has explained them to the modern reader. It presents Jewish insight and teachings.

Offers calligraphers a guide to this beautiful art form. This book describes various aspects of calligraphy: the materials and supplies needed by the artist, the techniques that must be mastered, considerations for designs and layout, and ideas for marketing and selling the finished product.

Tens of thousands of Jews were injured or killed in the pogroms of the early 1880s and those of the early 1900s. Ninety-five percent of the Jewish population was restricted to a life of poverty and starvation in the ghetto and barred from schools and universities. Ultimately, four million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924, three million of whom settled in America. Monumental though this mass migration was, it is even more surprising to learn that twice as many Jews decided not to leave Eastern Europe, despite the horrid conditions they endured. This puzzling statistic lends even sharper emphasis to the reasons surrounding the biggest movement of people in world history. Milton Meltzer has gathered eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, documents, songs, maps, poems, and memoirs, weaving them into an historical narrative that details the Jews' motivation to abandon their old world and venture into a new one. It is a story that will at once educate and inspire the reader, delight and disappoint, while restoring a world practically unfathomable to today's American Jews, most of whom can find their roots in that rich and wondrous past.

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This text argues that all primary alcoholics and many alcohol abusers need intensive individual psychotherapy. A structured psychodynamic therapy approach is described, which the author claims can successfully treat 80per cent of primary alcoholics in only 18 months.

Reflects the trends in psychotherapy. This book presents a model of interpersonal, short-term psychotherapy for clinically depressed patients.

A comprehensive guide to the Jewish laws governing the work of the cantor.

This work emphasises a psychoanalytic perspective in work with both intact and disturbed patients in groups. It argues that ego and self-psychology offer a valuable repertoire of interventions for use with many types of groups, particularly those comprising needy or neglected patients.

A collection of stories by the late, world-renowned rabbi and folk singer Shlomo Carlebach.

A compendium of the basic principles of Richard Gardner's psychotherapeutic approaches. The book traces the development of child psychotherapeutic techniques in the 20th century and presents the central elements in the psychotherapeutic process.

This text focuses on the technique of affirmative dynamic psychotherapy with gay men. The contributors point out the homophobia and intolerance that creates shame, guilt and other symptoms in homosexual men; and demonstrate that dynamic psychotherapy can be affirming of homosexuality.

Lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. This volume presents the name of the community along with information about it: when it was founded, the Jewish population in different years, shops and synagogues, and the names of citizens.

Known as baalei teshuvah "those who return," formerly secular and marginally religious Jews are returning to embrace traditional Judaism and reclaiming it as an enriching and viable way of life. Pathways: Jews Who Return is a collection of first-person oral histories that illuminates the journey.

Ninety-one letters, ethical wills, bar mitzvah speeches, and other personal records are presented in chronological order following an interpretive essay on the ethical aspirations of American Jewry.

Contains stories that presents a picture of Jewish life in Lithuania between the two world wars, with its everyday problems and its spiritual yearnings.

Includes the historical development, religious importance, and personal significance of each Jewish holy day. This book offers information on why and how to celebrate.

There is a huge body of literature addressing women and Jewish tradition, much of which seeks to supplement Jewish texts such as the Talmud and midrash where female voices are generally absent.

Features quotations that consists of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes. This volume is compiled from over 2,500 years of Jewish writings - from the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Zohar, and the Bible, through excerpts from Rashi, Maimonides, the Baal Shem Tov, as well as Spinoza, Disraeli, and Herzl.

Uncovers the ideas that the words and letters of the holy language, Hebrew convey in the Haggadah.

Uncovers the connection between Jewish mysticism and classic astrology by citing the many references throughout Jewish literature to the influence of the stars on human destiny. This book gives a rendering of Jewish astrology according to kabbalah, summarizing the system of elements in Jewish thought that correlates to each astrological sign.

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In Al Chet: Sins in the Marketplace, Meir Tamari, a renowned authority in the field of Jewish business ethics, explores the viduy specifically as it relates to the business world.