Herbert J Schlesinger: 3 books
Endings and Beginnings
On terminating psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this second edition of Endings & Beginnings (Routledge, 2006), Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main endings and beginnings of any course in treatment, and the many little endings and beginnings that permeate...
The Texture of Treatment
On the Matter of Psychoanalytic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In simple, jargon-free language, Herbert Schlesinger sets out to demystify technique, to show how it is based on basic principles that are applicable both to psychoanalysis and to the psychotherapies that derive from it. He has little need for conventional theory; rather, he reframes essential...
Promises, Oaths, and Vows
On the Psychology of Promising
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Considering that getting along in civil society is based on the expectation that (most) people will do what they say they will do, i.e., essentially live up to their explicit or implicit promises, it is amazing that so little scientific attention has been given to the act of promising. A great deal...